Speakeasy forum: Colin Powell goes on Meet the Press, speaks honestly about

He backstabbed those who helped him. He's nothing now.

I'm speaking of just this latest?

How 'bout a ticket in 2016 with Powell for Prez and Chris Christie for VP. Nothing would be able to stop them.

what you mean by "designed to insult". Sounds like you are admitting they are not insulting unless one gives it their own special interpretation. You realize sometimes I've only posted a news report, often from a liberal news site, with a fair use excerpt from it, and been accused of insulting someone, when it wasn't even MY words? Is that what you meant by "designed"?

Do you mean like this one, I posted just today. I could search others out, but it wouldn't prove anything to you, only to others.

This one which simply stated the facts and telling people to find their own news about it?

Or this OP? Maybe it was too non controversial to get any notice.

Or how about this one, an OP about Al Gore with simple statement of fact, as exposed in the news report?


All these are recent. Enough to prove you wrong.

so you may have been deceived. And often the headers he writes are so misleading that you can't figure anything out.

Rob

made in a very long time. I may get snotty when there have been replies which deserved contempt. but I will acknowledge that this one trod the edge of the TOS.

At the same time, look at what the GOP has become, a bunch of "I'm more conservative than you are" poseurs serving the interests of the moneyed class. And just for James, that's not envy you hear, it is contempt.

The US, thanks to the Republicans, has turned into 50 gerrymandered states which unfairly represent Republican interests thanks to the work of Republican governors in re-districting over the last 20 or so years. That's not opinion that's demonstrably true. All you need is a districting map, and 538blog's discussion of which are safe seats and which very few are not. Additionally, should you care to review the popular vote, the Republican's have been in serious trouble for 25 years or more.

Every research poll taker in the United States has said that people who lean Democratic far outnumber the ones who lean Republican. This was acknowledged by Republican strategist Paul Weyrich who said: "I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of
the people. They never have been from the beginning of our country and
they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections
quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down." — Paul
Weyrich, Republican strategist, 1980.

So do you still think Republican restrictions placed at the State levels on Voter ID's and purging the voters lists of "felons" so they can deny anyone with the same name a vote are something they thought up for George W. Bush's election?

"In the Maryland gubernatorial election in 2010, the campaign of Republican candidate Bob Ehrlich
hired a consultant who advised that "the first and most desired outcome
is voter suppression", in the form of having "African-American voters
stay home."" Wikipedia under Voter Supression.

So my tone may have been exceptionable (Except of course that it is protected speech under the First Amendment) but there's plenty of instances to back up the truth of former Secretary of State Powell's assertion about the "deep vein of Intolerance" in the Republican Party.

As a human being, I can mourn the uses to which Sec.Powell's stature and extraordinary capability has been put by his so-called "friends" in the Party. And I think James' viturperation above says all that needs to be said regarding partisanship, and the capacity for willful blindness. Hence the comment, Glenda, since like many of your co-religionists, You Don't Get It. (Oh, and your religion is Keeping those less wealthy than you are in their place. It's a common infection seemingly in the Republican Party).

Rob

Here's a fine example of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina%27s_12th_congressional_district

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NC12_109.gif

I considered the source........a man who served honorably under three different Presidents and two different parties and still had opportunities that he could only dream about as a kid. The Republican party has always been about giving people a hand UP rather than a hand out, unlike the Democrats who believe in 'control their money and you control the people'. They have always encouraged people to succeed whereas the Democrats, more and more over time, have encouraged freebies, taking away the incentives to succeed. Powell, along with many other minorities in the military and in politics, have had front row positions within the Republican party.......long before the Democrats even considered having minorities and women in high positions. For Powell to turn his back on the Republican party and make comments such as he has done over the last couple of years make me wonder why he still considers himself to BE a Republican when it has become clear to most of us who watch the news on a regular basis he is actually a Democrat. He had an opportunity to run for President during his highest point and chose to write a book instead. If he was so concerned about making changes within the Republican party, he had that chance and turned away from it. His fault for making a bad decision, and now he hasn't got the right to complain about something he could have done something about......not the party's fault....

it's only liberals who want the conservatives to do the changing...........when do liberals consider changing?

Republicans have to change......and they are already doing so.........is to go back to what they originally stood for instead of continuously bowing to the Dem's wishes and pressure and effectively getting that message out to the people again. Retrieving their spine is first and foremost.

and BOGUS science IS blasphemy when both are nothing more than political agendas.

I assume you're talking about college grants etc.

Or would you really rather everything after high school was 100% paid for by student fees and/or private donations? Surely you're not advocating going back to the 1700's with no public universities?

Now I'm not against maintaining standards and class load requirements for aid, which may have been lowered too much. Student loans are deceptive. While I don't advocate bankruptcy every time someone mismanges their finances, the fact that student loans are not included in bankruptcy along with the current lack of jobs for many graduates make them end up being an unpayable load.