By NancyA on Aug 18, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bush/Cheney, Carly Fiorina, Colin Powell, Current Affairs, Democratic party, Harry Reid, Howard Dean, Media, Media Bias, Media Handling of Story, Nancy Pelosi, Obama Attack Ads, Race, Race Card, Racism, Sexism, Talking Points Memo, Typical white person, White People, women | 61 Comments
Who is playing the race card now? None other than Howard Dean. He plays the race card in an National Public Radio (NPR) interview on Friday. And then quickly reversed himself with an “ahem, I didn’t mean to say that”! He had essentially called the Republican Party “a white elephant” .
Dean had this to […]
By LisaB on Jun 2, 2008 in Barack Obama, Colin Powell | 69 Comments
America’s racial problems are legion and of long standing. In fact, as a country, we’ve done many things to alleviate the issues, many times clumsily and without satisfaction for all. Still, there have always been people who try and find solutions no matter the current mood.
But many people are saying that a vote […]
By Joseph Wilson on Apr 9, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bush/Cheney, Colin Powell, Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, John McCain, Joseph Wilson, NATO, Valerie Plame Wilson | 65 Comments
Re-printed from the Philadelphia Inquirer with express permission.
Joseph C. Wilson IV is a retired career diplomat, a former U.S. ambassador, presidential foreign-policy adviser, and author of “The Politics of Truth”
Sen. Barack Obama declared in Pennsylvania on March 27 that his foreign policy would “return” to that of George H.W. Bush and that Sens. John McCain […]
By Bud White on Mar 31, 2008 in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Harold Ford, Hillary Clinton, Martin Luther King, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Sheila Jackson Lee | 28 Comments
The code words are different this time around. Instead of appealing to whites’ fears of forced integration by mentioning busing, Obama has elicited black prejudice by using terms like like hoodwinked, bamboozled, and okie-doke.
Can you imagine another prominent African American politician using this language? Can you see the dignified Colin Powell using this dog-whistle? […]
By Ray McGovern on Mar 26, 2008 in Bush/Cheney, CIA, Colin Powell, Foreign affairs, Intelligence, Iraq, Israel, Petraeus, Rice | 16 Comments
Frontline: Too Timid, Too Little, Too Late: Frontline’s “Bush’s War” on PBS Monday and Tuesday evening was a nicely put-together rehash of the top players’ trickery that led to the attack on Iraq, together with the power-grabbing, back-stabbing, and limitless incompetence of the occupation.
By SusanUnPC on Mar 18, 2008 in Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Race, Race Card, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., hate speech | 141 Comments
This was an exceptionally good segment on Fox News’s Hannity & Colmes tonight. No matter your views of Fox, Hannity, or Luntz, you will be riveted by Luntz’s astute analyses. There are two videos here and, below the fold, the words of General Colin Powell on his courageous stand against hate speech:
SECOND VIDEO:
