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Originally Posted by generaladm
You gotta love it when F-list bloggers profess to have insight into a public figure's "real" intentions. Later in the piece and comments, he says that Powell was lying when he said he thinks the GOP has moved further to the right. It takes a special kind of asshole to the have self-aggrandizing gall to suggest that a person they've never met is being false about their personal opinions. It's absurd to say that the future of Powell's career depended on endorsing Obama. I think it was actually riskier for him career-wise to endorse either candidate. If he had stayed out of it, he surely would have been offered an appointment by either side, and he may still. It's not like he was obligated to publicly endorse either way.
Just to show what kind of asshat Mick Wright is, here's his defense of using a derrogatory bastardization of Obama's name.
Do you really read this crap?
Thanks for the divination, Nostradamus. Could you tell us who is going to win the World Series, so we can place some bets? Need I remind you that after 9/11, the whole western world proclaimed solidarity with the US? The international opinion went from a near all-time high to a near all-time low in just a couple of years. Can you tell me with a straight face that W had nothing to do with that? Of course not everyone in the world will like the US, no matter who is POTUS, but having one that doesn't constantly give the finger to the rest of the world will only help our perception.
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That was solidarity with the citizenry, and with the people who lost their lives in particular, not the American government. We were not exactly tops on everyone's list on September 10th, and we were going to return that way soon afterward, Bush or not. Certainly the Iraq war exacerbated that process, but the so-called "solidarity" was temporary, if it actually existed.