Bill O’Reilly Implies Colin Powell Endorsed Obama Because of Race

Oy. This basic subject was covered aleady, here at Opposing Views, in this article...

http://bit.ly/RBfR18

...bearing the headline "Video: Romney Campaign Co-Chair John Sununu Claims Colin Powell Endorsed Pres. Obama Because He is Black"

What I wrote beneath THAT article applies here, as well... to wit:

Sununu [strike that, for this article, and now substitute O'Reilly] was an idiot before, and he's an idiot now.

I watched, live, the interview on CBS This Morning during which Powell announced his support for Obama in 2012, just as he supported Obama in 2008; and race, trust me, had nothing to do with it.

Powell's stated reasons were as follows:

"When he took over, the country was in very very difficult straits. We were in the one of the worst recessions we had seen in recent times, close to a depression. The fiscal system was collapsing. Wall Street was in chaos, we had 800,000 jobs lost in that first month of the Obama administration and unemployment peaked a few months later at 10 percent. So we were in real trouble. The auto industry was collapsing, the housing was start[ing] to collapse and we were in very difficult straits. And I saw over the next several years, stabilization come back in the financial community, housing is now starting to pick up after four years, it's starting to pick up. Consumer confidence is rising."

You may both continue reading what Powell said, as well as watch the video here...

http://cbsn.ws/WOOg3s

...where anyone who hasn't fallen on his/her head too many times in life may clearly see that race, again, had nothing to do with it.

Don't forget that people project onto others their own propensities. Sununu[O'Reilly], then, would clearly allow race to factor-in to one of his[their] endorsements; but Powell has always been above that. He's one of the few Republicans I actually both like and respect. Sununu/O'Reilly, et al, are simply still stingning from Powell's refusal to keep-up the Bush43 weapons of mass destruction in Iraq charade; and O'Reilly's just trying to come-up with anything he can, to pander to the FOX NEWS CHANNNEL echo chamber.

From the CBS article: "...despite his endorsement of a Democratic candidate in two presidential elections, Powell says he remains a Republican. 'I think I'm a Republican of a more moderate mold,' he said before adding, 'That's something of a dying breed I'm sorry to say.'"

Today's Republican party is a mere shadow of its former self. The (Insani)Tea Party has taken it over, and has made it into something that makes the Eisenhower Republicans of the past either shake their heads in disbelief, or roll-over in their graves, as appropriate.

There's an old, faded-blue Volvo wagon driving around Napa, owned, obviously, by an old hippie, and containing layers of liberal/progressive bumper stickers all over its tailgate. I always enjoy happening to be behind him at a stoplight and trying to figure out what he's added that's new. One day, while doing that, I spotted a most appropriate bumper sticker, given today's Republican party, on his tailgate. Bold, white letters on a black background, spelled-out the simple message: "Whoever woulda' thought I'd ever miss Nixon."

Indeed.