Powell Responds to Limbaugh: Sotomayor as a Reverse Racist is "Nonsense"

On CNN today, former Secretary of State Colin Powell discussed Rush Limbaugh and among other things, his reference to President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a “reverse racist.” In his interview with John King, Colin Powell called her a "gifted and accomplished woman," with “a judicial record that seems to be balanced and tries to follow the law.”

[LookingToEscape]

Powell is a jello Republican and Sotomayor is an equal opportunity pick.

[Responsibility]

First comment - so predictable and with more predictability to come.

Now they will jump all over Powell - even though he is still a republican't.

[Mac-7]

I wonder if Powell is working toward being on the ticket with Obama in 2012?

[Buzz Flederjon]

Responsibility wrote:

First comment - so predictable and with more predictability to come.
Now they will jump all over Powell - even though he is still a republican't.

They're brain-washed by the likes of Fat Rush.

The Repukes have been telling them that they will outlaw abortion and make Christianity mandatory forever and now they know it will never happen.

[Mac-7]

Buzz Flederjon wrote:

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They're brain-washed by the likes of Fat Rush.
The Repukes have been telling them that they will outlaw abortion and make Christianity mandatory forever and now they know it will never happen.

If Powell thinks Sotomayor is a fine SC pick then he is the one who is brainwashed.

Or brain dead.

[Mac-7]

"or somebody who is quite prominent in the media says the only basis upon which I could possibly have supported Obama was because he was black and I was black even though I laid out my judgment on the candidates, then we still have a problem."

I guess Powell has a personal grudge against Limbaugh and that's why he goes out of his way to carry on a debate with him in the pro-Obama lib news media.

Maybe Powell should sit down and have a face-to-face talk with Limbaugh and get some of his anger off his chest.

[PooPoo Platter]

LookingToEscape wrote:

Powell is a jello Republican and Sotomayor is an equal opportunity pick.

And all the Republicans who throw the likes of Colin Powell under the bus will be losers at the polls. Political parties are for winning elections, period. It's not supposed to be an effort to put together the purest conservatives. Save that for your PACS & foundations.

The zealots are blinded by arrogance and hubris. So they'll lose in 2010 and 2012 too. A house divided...

The solution for the GOP probably entails the rise of leaders strong enough to put the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, et al in their proper place to ensure a winning coallition.

[DJM]

Buzz Flederjon wrote:

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They're brain-washed by the likes of Fat Rush.
The Repukes have been telling them that they will outlaw abortion and make Christianity mandatory forever and now they know it will never happen.

HAHAHAH

Buzz, you should change your name to "Chicken Little"
Where do you get your wacky comments?
Oh thats right ... the wacky leftist talking heads!

[JMKC]

This from the Flip Flopping Colin Powell;
"Colin Powell worries Obama has taken on too much"
"I think 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," Powell said.

http://community.gadsdentimes.com/eve/forums/...

Joe Biden's been banished with a target on his back to Iraq, send Colin Powell immediately to Afghanistan!
Make him ambassador to Afghani goats!

[Duh Vinci]

What's Iranian..Nainri?

[Duh Vinci]

Essence ON? Nostros Buttruss ?

[Duh Vinci]

Did Limbauge says lets limbo bimbo?

[Lawrence Wolf]

Mac-7 wrote:

I wonder if Powell is working toward being on the ticket with Obama in 2012?

You probably also wonder if you can walk to the edge of the earth and fall off.

[Mac-7]

PooPoo Platter wrote:

<quoted text>
And all the Republicans who throw the likes of Colin Powell under the bus will be losers at the polls. Political parties are for winning elections, period. It's not supposed to be an effort to put together the purest conservatives. Save that for your PACS & foundations.
The zealots are blinded by arrogance and hubris. So they'll lose in 2010 and 2012 too. A house divided...
The solution for the GOP probably entails the rise of leaders strong enough to put the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, et al in their proper place to ensure a winning coallition.

"And all the Republicans who throw the likes of Colin Powell under the bus will be losers at the polls. Political parties are for winning elections, period."

Powell is the one who went on CNN and trashed another Republican to defend a Democrat.

[Lawrence Wolf]

Phuque Obama wrote:

<quoted text> We won't have an election in 2012. After Hussiens depression we will all be speaking Iranian.

Not all of us. You'll still be speaking gibberish.

[Mac-7]

Lawrence Wolf wrote:

<quoted text>You probably also wonder if you can walk to the edge of the earth and fall off.

You are a typical Obama voter, Wolf.

All you can do is try to insult people you disagree with because you can't think of anything else to say.

[Yeppers]

Colin Powell called her a "gifted and accomplished woman," with “a judicial record that seems to be balanced and tries to follow the law.”

There is a problem with Mr. Powell's statement, specifically the part in which he says "tries to follow the law"...If she's going to play in the "big leagues" she had better follow the law to the letter, she's already had one of her cases overturned for ruling on emotion instead following the law...

[Populist]

Colin Powell Saying He Was Misled Before UN Speech on WMDs
http://tinyurl.com/6n9tg2
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Powell Says US Should Not Have Invaded Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/6zdvju
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Colin Powell: I would shut Guantanamo down this afternoon
http://tinyurl.com/5asdgd
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Gen. Colin Powell - "I Tried To Avoid This War."
http://tinyurl.com/6ju6f9
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Gen. Colin Powell on Election 08 /
USA Troops Stretched Too Thin Because Of Bush Policy
http://tinyurl.com/62pl4r
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice Tell The Truth About Iraq in Feb. July 2001 / Iraq was no threat to any country and contained
http://tinyurl.com/2fhgd8
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

[Populist]

Trent Lott, Ronald Reagan and Republican Racism
Dec. 14, 2002 / http://tinyurl.com/d9w75
Southern Strategy: The race question has haunted Reagan and the GOP for decades
The same could be said, of course, about such Republican heroes as, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon or George Bush the elder, all of whom used coded racial messages to lure disaffected blue collar and Southern white voters away from the Democrats. Yet it's with Reagan, who set a standard for exploiting white anger and resentment rarely seen since George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door, that the Republican's selective memory about its race-baiting habit really stands out.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,859...

Reagan, White As Snow
http://tinyurl.com/6lujee
Last week, as we’ve heard, the Republican presidential candidates praised the name and heritage of Ronald Reagan 40 times during the televised Show and Tell at the Reagan Presidential Library. That none of them mentioned Reagan’s legacy of white supremacy and support for apartheid is a little like invoking Jefferson Davis and not mentioning treason or slavery. Actually, a lot like it.
Ronald Reagan was a white supremacist to his very core, and left enough traces over his lengthy political career so that it’s evident for anyone who cares to look—which apparently few do.
Domestically, he opposed every legislative remedy for African Americans, betraying a meanness of spirit and an open racism. As Sidney Blumenthal wrote in The Guardian in 2003:/ http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/05/08/r...

[Populist]

No tears for Reagan
June 8, 2004 / http://tinyurl.com/558r6l
Excuse me if I don’t shed any tears over the passing of former President Ronald Reagan. While the news of the 40th president’s death brought on a flood of sentimentality over the nation’s media this past weekend, I could not help but recall what the Reagan presidency really meant for Black Americans. Similar to what occurred upon the death of Richard Nixon, amnesia has set upon journalists as they recall Reagan’s era; choosing to indulge in idol worship rather than serious reflection on the former president’s policies.
http://www.blackamericatoday.com/article.cfm...

Ronald Reagan: The Great White Redeemer
http://tinyurl.com/6jljhm / June 10 2004
Only 12 years elapsed between the glorious military victory over the Confederate Slave States in 1865 and the definitive defeat of Reconstruction in 1877. In many important respects, the Reconstruction period was even briefer than that. By 1870, when the last of the southern states ratified the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, Tennessee had already rejected biracial democracy and installed an all-white “Redeemer” government.“Redemption” then swept through Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.
http://www.blackcommentator.com/94/94_cover_r...

Reagan's heart of darkness
June 9, 2004 / http://tinyurl.com/28ytj
PRESIDENT Bush proclaimed: "Ronald Reagan believed that God takes the side of justice and that America has a special calling to oppose tyranny and defend freedom." In the first three days of news reports on the death of the former president, not a single major American newspaper, television station, or politician has dared to exhume this counterpoint to the Reagan's legacy: "Immoral, evil, and totally un-Christian."
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_op...