I've never understood the praise heaped on Powell. Like he's some guru of foreign policy and we should hang on his every word and endorsement.

He was in the right place at the right time. Period. Since then he's morphed into this quasi David Gergen figure without the comb-over. I mean, whatever happened to Norman Schwarzkopf? He's the guy I'd be listening to and if I were McCain, I'd have him on speed dial.

Mr Brokaw ably led the General through the steps needed to get his endorsement on the table.  After witnessing this latest episode it is difficult to muster any respect for the General.  Here's a fellow that is supposed to be a leader being led by a socialist.

It is this type of spectacle that Americans will vote against on Election Day and the MSM is trying mightily to suppress our vote.  That will not happen.  When Fox News declares McCain the victor we will then turn to MSNBC to watch the leftest media explain what happened.  It will certainly be the race card from the bottom of their fixed deck.  GE had better dump this dog before it's too late. 

Dollars to donuts, Brokaw was handed a script of what to ask.  He's not a journalist, he's an actor.

Powell has been demonized by the liberals and the liberal press along with all other conservative blacks in this country and this is how he rewards them?

Hey Collin, was Obama right on Fannie/Freddie reform? Was he right on the surge?

I totally agree.  In fact, if pseudo-conservative Colin Powell had endorsed McCain, I would have considered it a losing proposition.  Likewise for Condi Rice.  What happens to these people when they spend time in the State Department?  There is some serious brain-flatulence over there.

Any respect I had towards Powell is now gone.  He should have stayed out of it.....but HAD to inject himself in the race.  Brokaw is an ass.....no hard questions, just directed questions to futher his cause...Comrade Obama.  However, I think its too little too late for Obamatron now....his showing utter contempt for the average "Joe", has hurt him bad.....and then mocking him as well.......he is an elitist Toad........the "choir" is not going to get him elected.......the average "Joe", will, and he blew that big time. 

"If a man does his best, what else is there"?

General George S. Patton Jr.

Does anyone think that Meet The Press would have allowed him to come on the show if Powell wanted to endorse McCain?

GEN. POWELL:  .......... And I think we have to do a lot more with respect to poverty alleviation and helping the needy people of the world.  We need to increase the amount of resources we put into our development programs to help the rest of the world.  Because when you help the poorest in the world, you start to move them up an economic and social ladder, and they're not going to be moving toward violence or terrorism of the kind that we worry about.

   Looks like Joe is going to need a second job.

...and why should we care?  Sounds to me like a guy with an opinion, everyones got one of those, right?  Or maybe a guy with a name that could be the butt of lame jokes...

<rimshot>

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

I find his endorment a joke five years ago according to most on the left he was uncle tom . Now hes a elder statesman cause they like what he says.Since when was he a conservative he was made sec of state to show a moderate side to a hawkish administration. we was wrong in 91 when he told bush 41 not to finish of sadam and show compassion on the retreat from kuwat. his endorsment is color based at best 

I
actually thank God that Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama, because
when Obama goes down to defeat it will be the last time America will
have to deal with this worthless, paper pushing, screw up general.

Powell
is an affirmative action general of the worst Rockefeller globalist
political order. John McCain always stipulates that all are honorable
who served the United States in the uniform, but that is one of several
things I will disagree with respectfully as there is nothing respectful
about Colin Powell.
His Purple Heart came early in Vietnam being not
savvy enough in jungle warfare in stepping on a punji stake in the 62
tour. If he would have had to have been in Indian Country in the real
war, his mistake would have buried him along with his squad for his
stupidity.

So I don't have any respect for paper pusher officers
who beg to get assigned to combat to win medals on the blood of
Soldiers stuck with a nimwit officer.

Powell would return to
Vietnam as the investigator of My Lai. Instead of doing what a good
officer would do in sweeping it under the rug, paying off the civilians
who were assisting the Vietcong and ending the problem for the good of
the war, no Powell helped the Andy Rooney leftist press make a big deal
of it, ruin American morale, embolden the enemy and cost American
families another 40,000 American dead.

Pretty high price for the
little general who couldn't in over ten thousand Soldiers dead for each
star pinned to his political uniform.

Powell then in affirmative
action moved up and he is the culprit when American forces had Saddam
Hussein's butchers as road kill coming out of Kuwait told Bush 41, "Mr.
President, you don't want the world seeing that kind of slaughter".

So
instead of finishing off the worst of Saddam's butchers, no Powell left
them alive so they could murder the Shia in the south and commit
genocide on the Kurds in the north after Powell helped the political
agenda telling those Iraqi people to rise up, which they did, and then
Powell Bay of Pigs did not assist the Iraqi's on the ground to get rid
of Saddam.

Powell's kinder and gentler war is responsible for
more bloodshed later when Bush 41 left in place a CIA coup to be
carried out, which Bill Clinton then leaked to Saddam in exchange for
oil bribes where American Iraqi assets were then murdered by Saddam.
The
entire food for oil bribery scandal which set off Gulf War II to the
attacks on 9 11 would not have occurred, including the strange way West
Nile which Saddam was studying in weaponizing for an attack on America,
would never have happened except for Colin Powell.

Powell would
continue his generalship in the Sec. of State mode where he knows very
well the DOD uncovered vast stores of Weapons of Mass Destruction in
Iraq, knows Saddam shipped out planeloads and truckloads to Syria and
Lebanon, but not one word from him.
Powell though did utter the word
which undid everything Sec. Rumsfeld, Vice President Cheney and Paul
Wolfowitz intended for Iraq.
See American policy had enough forces
to liberate Iraq which they did by God's grace wonderfully. The entire
American policy was then to get out, but no Colin Powell with the
Rockefellers changed the policy and decided to make Iraq a killing zone
for Muslim allies to ship their terrorist too and for America to occupy
the nation so these financiers would get at the oil which soon was
being siphoned off for the same oil for food criminals.

That
point is vital to understand as Rumsfeld and Cheney got the blame, but
it was Powell who set that bloodbath up and knew very well it would
destroy George Bush's poll numbers so John Kerry would be installed as
a war hero with rice shrapnel in his butt.
Bush 43 soon enough
figured out what kind of operative Powell was and if you recall the
first person George W. Bush fired was Colin Powell.

It has taken
Condi Rice almost 2 years to undo the idiocy of Colin Powell screwing
up the entire Middle East for his financier bosses. Powell mucked
things up from Gaza to Kabul and Rice to her credit has done remarkable
work in bringing stability to the area, so much so, that Barack Obama
like the fool he is notes that Iraq has a surplus in trade now meaning
they are a success due to Bush policy free of Powell and the Iraqi's
feel secure enough to start performing their own security again in 2009.

So
that is why I'm so thankful that this political little general who
couldn't in Colin Powell is now linked to Barack Obama and is exposed
for the worthless political operative he is.
Powell says his
endorsement isn't about race. No it isn't about race, it is about
payback to Bush 43 for deservedly firing this jewelry adorned officer
who got the pretty metal in tens of thousands of Americans bleeding and
dying.
Oh and it is about race, the color of green money controlling both Obaam and Powell in the financiers.

Therefore
goodbye Colin Powell and good riddance. You belong in the Brzezinski /
Obama / Clark camp of terrorists, sell outs and kooks.

May your legacy Colin Powell finally catch up with you.

agtG 232

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Not asking about the surge is absolute bias.  How can one not mention something that was so hugely successful for America while the candidate being endorsed was hugely against it?  How can Brokaw NOT ask about that?  That is absolute irresponsible.  It's not a side issue or a minor thing, it's a very very major thing, one in which America has been hugely successful yet the Obama was hugely against it.   Good GRIEF!!  Russert would have asked about it!!!!

Just an additional thought........I would venture to guess that someone somewhere, who was a friend or associate of Obama in 1991, knows of Obama's thoughts previous to America ousting Saddam from Kuwait.  I would be willing to take a bet that if that someone were to tell us what Obama thought, BEFORE that war ever started, I bet Obama was against that one too.

Hello people!  The brothers need to stick together and that's why Powell endorsed Obama. 

Is Colin Powell even RELEVANT these days? 

which Richard Danzig told the Center for New American security, quote, 'Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.'" Danzig may end up as Obama's National Security Advisor.  Isn't that just soooo reassuring.