Every single day Colin Powell deteriorates in my mind. Far from the dignified man that used to show up in his highly decorated uniform, Powell has become a coward and man of ever-so-little integrity.
After his utterly ridiculous “mobile weapons labs” presentation to the United Nations, Powell became bitter with President Bush and eventually resigned from his position as Secretary of State. He never fully recovered from that idiocy and in 2008 decided to stick it to the party and endorse a fellow brother in the election; a man he supposedly should have no ideological connection to, but one that he promised would bring about change and hope and we’d all be crapping rainbows. Powell had always been a moderate, but most saw him as a moderate Republican that would never turn his back on his party. Republican moderates even held out hope that at some point, Powell would run on the Republican ticket for President. His endorsement of Obama sealed the deal, however, that he put skin color and liberal ideology ahead of his party.
The interesting part, though, is how utterly stunned he seems that the man he endorsed as the one best for the country, is spending it into the ground. George W. Bush spent this country into a hole, and instead of proving the fiscal responsibility we were supposed to see from the other side of the aisle, it’s even worse. In fact, the spending is so bad that we’re probably not just saddling our kids with it, but our grandkids.
I bring this up because it isn’t news, not because it is. Obama’s opponents saw this coming. John McCain, out of touch and crazy as he came off as during the election called Obama out numerous times asking him how he planned on paying for the gigantic spending initiatives he was about to embark on, and pointed out that the numbers simply didn’t work. Anyone paying attention knew this was coming. Anyone, that is, except for Colin Powell. Hypnotized by Obama’s blackness and his hatred for the Bush Administration, and still stinging from his presentation on deadly ice cream trucks in Baghdad, he endorsed Barack Obama.
“We’ve got two individuals — either one of them could be a good president. But which is the president that we need now — which is the individual that serves the needs of the nation for the next period of time.
“And I come to the conclusion that because of his ability to inspire, because of the inclusive nature of his campaign, because he is reaching out all across America, because of who he is and his rhetorical abilities — and you have to take that into account — as well as his substance — he has both style and substance, he has met the standard of being a successful president, being an exceptional president.”
Does he serve our needs? Well, apparently, Powell is a bit concerned about that which he was so certain in October of 2008…
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.
Mr. Powell, a retired U.S. army general who rose to political prominence after a long and accomplished military career, said that health care reform and many of Mr. Obama’s other initiatives are “important” to Americans.
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,”
You’re right, Mr. Powell. We can’t pay for it all. We never could, though. We couldn’t pay for it when he was running and you endorsed him, either, in spite of all of his opponents predicting this was exactly what would come to pass. Colin Powell, on the other hand, was the reassuring voice telling us Obama was exactly what we needed in spite of what some of us already knew.
And now you play surprised, Mr. Powell?
You’ll understand if I don’t buy it.
