Another “we told you so” moment
Buyer's remorse from Colin Powell.
Colin Powell, one of President Obama's most prominent Republican supporters, expressed concern Friday that the president's ambitious blitz of costly initiatives may be enlarging the size of government and the federal debt too much.
"I'm concerned at the number of programs that are being presented, the bills associated with these programs and the additional government that will be needed to execute them," Mr. Powell said in an excerpt of an interview with CNN's John King, released by the network Friday morning.
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But, he said, "one of the cautions that has to be given to the president -- and I've talked to some of his people about this -- is that you can't have so many things on the table that you can't absorb it all."
"And we can't pay for it all," said Mr. Powell, who was the first African-American to serve as secretary of state, under former President George W. Bush. He was also national security adviser to President Reagan, and was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1993.
Translation? "Dude, you're making me look like an idiot for endorsing you. Cool your jets a bit!"
George,
I’ve always had my misgivings about Colin Powell from back during the first Gulf War days(as I suspect he was the one who influenced Papa Bush not to finish the job).
My views on him were later reinforced when he made that stupid comment about the Castro’s government advances in health care.
The way that he went to attack the Republican Party (after the election) and the way he embraced Barack Hussein Obama just a week before the election made me lose all the respect I had left for him.
Now I just think that he’s just another liberal turncoat asshole dressed in a military uniform.
From this point on I could care less about him, what he stands for and his legacy.
I'm sorry, but if he didn't see this coming he wasn't paying attention.
I am no Powell fan, but wasn't it the U.N. that gave us the limited mandate to do only what we did?
In 1991 we had enough forcers on the ground to finish the job (as General Norman Schwarzkopf once said he could not be stopped on the way to Bagdhag).
At the time we did not need a coalition to take over the country and in retrospect it would have been the best choice to finish the job back when the US military had enough manpower to hold the ground (unlike 2003 after the Clinton years armed forces reductions).
Regadless of the UN resolution, I suspect that Colin Powell was key in advicing President Bush on stopping the war.
That’s why I believe that Colin Powell for all his generalisimo has weak legs when the tough choices need to be made, or the wisdom to make the right decisions for America.
The fact that he embraced a Marxist like Barack Hussein Obama for the highest post in the land speaks volumes for his inability to choose a good leader for our country. That alone makes me lose any respect I had for him.
Sorry, but I don’t buy any of Colin Powell BS.
FFC, I'm with you. What he did in November was despicable. He turned against McCain, a fellow military man and moderate Republican, to endorse a leftist like Obama. For a so-called Republican, his actions are unpardonable. I used to admire the man and thought he might be a good President or VP, but he's turned out to be a disgrace and his actions put into question his common sense. He should have known full well what Obama and the Democrats are all about, and at this point he ought to craw back into his hole and shut the f**k up. Stupid shit...