Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/03/powell-airs-doubts-on-obama-agenda/
Date: July 3, 2009
Washington Times
by Jon Ward
Originally published 11:44 a.m., July 3, 2009, updated 03:16 p.m., July 3, 2009
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Beth Shaw
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is a prominent Republican who threw support behind Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy. During an interview on CNN’s ‘State of the Union with John King’, that will air on Sunday, July 5, 2009m, Colin Powell expressed doubts about Obama’s agenda. Among other things, Powell said that Obama is creating a tax burden and bureaucracy that is too big. Read about it below.
In an interview on Friday, Colin Powell expressed doubts regarding Barack Obama’s agenda. He was being interviewed for a segment on CNN’s ‘State of the Union with John King’ that will air on Sunday, July 5th. In the interview, he discussed the massive amount of legislation that the Obama Administration is attempting to get passed in record speed and the burden it is putting on the American people.
“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.”
‘And we can’t pay for it all.’ That, of course, is what is sending many fiscal conservatives reeling these days. Powell is one of a series of recent high profile Obama supporters who have expressed these kinds of concerns. People who are aware that the pie in the sky ideals of the privileged, sheltered, idealistic Effete EliteTM are not realistic in the workings of the real world.
He didn’t say he was ‘worried’, but he did say he was ‘concerned’.
“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,” he said.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has strong conservative credentials. The United States Army General served as national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan. He was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H. W. Bush and served as Secretary of State under President George W. Bush. His name was often discussed as a possible presidential contender.
He had been a supporter of John McCain during the presidential primaries. Then, just before the election he announced he was endorsing Obama over McCain. Many people felt that Powell had put identity politics over political ideology, policy, beliefs and the character of the candidate. It is of some relief that, even at this late date, his concern over the policies and beliefs of the man in office are once again rising to the surface.
As a former commander of Men at Arms, he is after all, a man of honor himself and an American patriot.
Powell has suffered the slings and arrows of vicious racist attacks from the left himself. Something the left does so often and so well while accusing the right of the very thing they are guilty of doing. You might recall when prominent democrats called him and Dr. Condoleezza Rice “house n****rs” simply because they are Republicans. If either of them had been democrats, they’d have been the toast of the democratic party because of their remarkable personal accomplishments, class and successful careers. But they are dismissed out of hand for not towing the party line. Even though the nations Black population is as diverse as the White population in terms of Conservative and Liberal values, it is necessary for Blacks to be card-toting members of the democratic party to be acceptable to the Leftists of our country.
So now, a few months after the election, Colin Powell doubts the Obama agenda and is concerned that Obama’s ever increasing tax burden and government bureaucracy are too big and burdensome to the American people.
And here I thought Obama was going to give us all free health care and new cars!! He never said anything about us having to pay for it all. But then, he did say he’d get us all jobs, so I guess we’ll be able to afford it.
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