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Indigent (89 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 09:43 PM Original message |
Colin Powell: "reducing everything to black versus white is not helpful to restoring civility" |
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madeline_con (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
1. Our public dialogue has become a raucous clamor of racist comments. |
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CakeGrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
2. Well General, I'm not so sure the black servicewoman who got beat up |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
3. Shut up, Colin |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 12:41 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. agreed. he enabled a criminal and now he mutters about how |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 10:05 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. More than one criminal |
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Aramchek (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
4. it's not black versus white, Colin. it's racists versus nonracists |
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EmilyAnne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
5. Why dismiss concerns about racism? Stop with the absolutes. |
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ampad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:54 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Agree |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 12:02 AM Response to Original message |
7. He heard some good intel that white Republicans |
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NanceGreggs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 12:14 AM Response to Original message |
8. And reducing Bush-aministration lies ... |
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firedupdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 12:16 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. +1 n/t |
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Indigent (89 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 06:17 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Don't forget, Obama grees with Powell |
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jonnyblitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 06:23 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. and of course DUers claim he doesn't *really* agree with |
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Engineer4Obama (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 06:38 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Obama has to agree with Colin Powel |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 09:19 AM Response to Original message |
14. He still hasn't committed honorable seppuku yet? |
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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 09:46 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I have to admit I had look that one up. nt |
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otohara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 09:43 AM Response to Original message |
15. #2 Liar of Iraq War |
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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
17. How helpful was going in front of the UN to give a speech you called bullshit the night before? As t |
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PA Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
19. And how did the number of death threats against Bush compare to the number |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
20. who cares what bloody hands Colin the liar/traitor says |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
21. You'd think he'd have figured out exactly where race plays a role in the discourse |
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GodlyDemocrat (388 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
22. Putting aside the veracity of the attacks against Bush, Colin is right |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
23. Powell's statement is ill-timed. There is a point, but not given the present reality. |
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