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Colin Powell speaks about President Obama
Posted: Oct 25, 2012
Powell publicly endorsed President Obama for re-election on "CBS This Morning" Thursday
"I voted for him in 2008 and I plan to stick with him in 2012 and I'll be voting for he and for Vice President Joe Biden next month."
Powell explained his choice to Charlie Rose and Norah O'Donnell:
When he took over, the country was in very very difficult straits. We were in the one of the worst recessions we had seen in recent times, close to a depression. The fiscal system was collapsing. Wall Street was in chaos, we had 800,000 jobs lost in that first month of the Obama administration and unemployment peaked a few months later at 10 percent. So we were in real trouble. The auto industry was collapsing, the housing was start[ing] to collapse and we were in very difficult straits. And I saw over the next several years, stabilization come back in the financial community, housing is now starting to pick up after four years, it's starting to pick up. Consumer confidence is rising."
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Nice endorsement from a moderate conservative. - nm
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A hypocrite. He goes on to call himself a - yh
[ In Reply To ..]republican. Then why aren't you endorsing the republican candidate. Fine to endorseObama, but too ashamed to call himself a democrat. He's lost my respect.
W didn't seem to agree. - What kind of respect is that?
[ In Reply To ..]Respect contingent on surrendering his right to make a highly informed choice of his own and joining the utterly clueless hater's cult?
Moderate conservative have really serious problems with - the extremists who've taken over the GOP. sm
[ In Reply To ..]Extremists are in a class by themselves--liberal and conservative--they're far more like each other than the moderates of their parties, to the point that the extremists are enemies of those who wear the same party label but who want to run the country with a good sense and cooperation intended to serve everyone as best possible.
Agreed. I thought he showed a great deal - of character in calling it like he sees it sm
[ In Reply To ..]It's not surprising that he's being ripped apart by the fringe element, though.
Wow - me
[ In Reply To ..]I wish I had those rose-colored glasses. I haven't seen anything like what he described - 600,000 women alone under Obama's watch now are on unemployment....this is a pro-woman guy? Hardly. And economic growth, financial stability - wow. Wonder what Powell has been smoking.
Did you post in the wrong place? Where in his endorsement - did General Powell mention women?
[ In Reply To ..]If you read anything further at all about his support of Obama, you'll find as much concern over Mitt's indiscernible foreign policy statements as he has voice over the economy in his statement to Charlie Rose. You seem to be missing his overall focus on stability. Romney can't even reach the short end of the stick in that measure. Then again, it must be a terrible disappointment for the GOP that they can't parade General Powell's "defection" to the other side around today. Hence, instant evisceration of the most personal kind is the order of the day.
It would be very surprising if all those undecided independents suddenly lost all respect for him now that he has clearly made his position known.
I agree. I was a moderate Republican - KLM
[ In Reply To ..]I recently changed my affiliation to Independent because of the hard-right turn the GOP has taken, and I know others who have done the same.
Same here. New Independent voter; too much freakish stuff going on any more. nm - wcgirl
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Look at the Tea Party post above. Those people are the - reason many conservatives can't vote their ow
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