{"id":32565,"date":"2012-10-25T12:02:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T16:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32565"},"modified":"2012-10-25T12:02:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T16:02:59","slug":"powell-endorses-obama-like-we-were-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32565","title":{"rendered":"Powell endorses Obama – like we we’re surprised"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know why he felt that he needed to say it out loud, but Colin Powell announced that once again, he supports President Obama, according to the Associated Press<\/a> in a link sent to us by Tman;<\/p>\n

He tells “CBS This Morning” he respects Mitt Romney but thinks he’s been vague on many issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Obama hasn’t been vague on any issues? Like promises to Russia that he’ll have more flexibility after this election? Like telling the anti-gun crowd to be patient until after this election? What’s this administration’s energy policy? What is this administration’s plan for the economy? Oh, yeah they’ll straighten out the economy with the money they’re going to save by getting out of Afghanistan. <\/p>\n

Speaking of Obama, Powell said the president got the United States out of Iraq and has laid out a plan for leaving Afghanistan “and didn’t get us into any new wars.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All Obama did in Iraq was follow the negotiated withdrawal from the previous administration, and then he blew negotiations with Iraq to keep US forces there and al Qaeda is surging in Iraq. The plan for withdrawal from Afghanistan is not a strategy – no comment on the failures of this administration’s inability to protect the troops from “insider” attacks. “New wars”? We now have troops in Jordan and Africa. We just lost an ambassador in Libya.<\/p>\n

Yeah, he lost me in 1999 when Powell said he was a “compassionate conservative” insinuating that the rest of us conservatives aren’t compassionate, when conservatism is compassion – getting government out of our way so we can each reach our potential. For the record, I didn’t like it much when Bush called himself a “compassionate conservative” either. But he promised to cut my taxes and he did.<\/p>\n

How any self-identified conservative can support this administration is beyond me. There are other reasons for Powell’s endorsement, but since I don’t know what’s in his heart, I won’t speculate, but he’ll have to be more specific than the reasons he’s given in this interview to convince me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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