Colin Powell Getting Nervous About Communist Agent President - With Video
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,” 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.
Mr. Powell was considered a possible Republican presidential candidate as early as 1996, and in 2007 he donated the maximum amount allowed to Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican who won the GOP primary. But less than a month before last fall’s general election, Mr. Powell endorsed Mr. Obama over Mr. McCain.
Mr. Powell’s comments represent the growing concern that began with hard-line fiscal conservatives but is now spreading to moderates about the rate of government spending and debt under President Obama, and the long-term impact on the country’s fiscal sustainability and national security.
The national debt stands currently at $11.5 trillion and the deficit for the current fiscal year is projected to be close to $2 trillion.
Mr. Powell expressed alarm at “budgets that are running into the multi-trillions of dollars” and “a huge, huge national debt that, if we don’t pay for in our lifetime, our kids and grandkids and great-grandchildren will have to pay for it.”
“So, I think the president, as he moves forward with his initiatives, has to start really taking a very, very hard look at what the cost of all this is. And, how much additional bureaucracy [will] be needed to make all of this happen?” Mr. Powell said.
Mr. Powell said he has been in touch with Mr. Obama regularly, including recently.
“I don’t insert myself. But, we stay in touch,” he said.
Mr. King prompted Mr. Powell’s comments by showing him video archive footage of Mr. Powell’s comments at the 1996 Republican Convention in San Diego, where Mr. Powell talked about his opposition to big government.
“The federal government has become too large and too intrusive in our lives,” Mr. Powell said then. “We can no longer afford solutions to our problems that result in more entitlements, higher taxes to pay for them, more bureaucracy to run them, and fewer results to show for it.”
Mr. Powell said that now that he still believes what he said then, but that he would put it in different terms now.
“I don’t like slogans anymore like ‘limited government.’ That’s not the right answer. The right answer is, give me a government that works,” he said. “Keep it as small as possible. Keep the tax burden on the American people as small as possible, but at the same time, have government that is solving the problems of the people.”
The full interview will air on CNN’s “State of the Union with John King” on Sunday, July 5.
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Colin Powell- what a joke. I have to laugh though- he did the exact same thing with the Iraq war. Gets up in front of the UN and says “Saddam has WMDs!” When large numbers are not readily apparent, “Hey, I never said there were any WMDs! George Bush fooled everybody!” He’s an incredibly successful bureaucratic politician though and while to normal people it looks like a stupid, completely obvious game it obviously works and he is obviously very good at it. Rats always leave a sinking ship, and Colin Powell is King Rat. This is not good for Obama!
Powell is a fucking dick head. To late to withdraw that endorsement now. STFU.
Powell is a fucking dick head. To late to withdraw that endorsement now. STFU.
“Butt I didnt vote for him cause hes black”
I remember how he stabbed Bush in the back. Hed is not concerned and not at all unspoortive of Obama. I listened to what he has said, and its Obama’s delivery that is the issue. I do not respect Powell, and have little interest to what he has to say. You know, its the same old story even from Biblical times, pressure and stress reveals character.
We all know there was WMD there, and the terrorist connections of Hussein far overwhelm any WMD reason for the invasion. Powell is for Powell, no one else. Human nature has not changed in thousands of years. Cicero had it quite right, so did Machiavelli.
Colitis Bowell is for whoever and whatever is in vogue….a fence sitter always tittering on which foot to put down or pull up.
Dumbass ‘doesn’t like the term limited government’ then describes limited government as what he DOES like.
Go away fuckhead.
So Colin pulls his head out of his colon for a moment … he should either stuff it back up there because it is too late for a fucking “I’m sorry” or put his uniform back on, grab his weapon and do the right thing … throw the usurper out of office with the backing of, what I believe would be, the majority of the military.
I say a prayer for that every day
Colin out of his colon, “priceless”
Welcome to the party dumbass!!! Everyone already knows you voted for Obozo cuz he is black, just like you, down for the struggle, bro.
“I don’t like slogans anymore like ‘limited government.’ That’s not the right answer. The right answer is, give me a government that works,” he said. “Keep it as small as possible. Keep the tax burden on the American people as small as possible, but at the same time, have government that is solving the problems of the people.” WTF! This guy’s freaking idiot! What a DOUCHEBAG!
Should of done your homework Powell…Some general you turned out to be. RINO!!!
Just another jism sucking RINO. He sees the wave of Obama hate that is shortly going to wash over the current administration and all those that aided them in taking power. Weak, disgusting, lacking moral character, he needs to be run out of the party on a rail.
Musing Lew
Post Gulf War I had the highest respect for Powell.
But since I found out, that while Secretary of State, he FUCKING KNEW ALL ALONG that it was Richard Armitage who leaked Valerie Plame’s name to Bob Novak AND Powell kept his mouth shut, not even telling his boss, President Bush, who was being raked over the coals daily. Sounds like treason to me, if not, it ought to be.
Since then, I’ve thought of Powell as a POS and never paid any attention to him until last October, when he gave a public blow-job to Obama.
what a windvane
I’ve never liked the prick. If it wasn’t for Schwarzkopf pulling the pussy kicking and screaming into Iraq, we wouldn’t have to waste air talking about him now.
In the last election he voted for Obama because of his similar melanin not because of the content of his character. He is the one that freaked out and pulled the plug in the Gulf War after being horrified by the road to death images.
Dumbshit as dumbshit does.
Voter’s remorse, eh?