On the one side you have guys like Colin Powell. Powell is a RINO. RINOs are Republicans only by politics. To Powell, the Republican party is a vehicle to hitch ride to office in. Everything he says in the vid screams that he's approaching the debate politically. He's parsing voting blocs, gerrymandering, and 'strategerizing' as a way to run for party office. He ISN'T taking a stand on principles.

Opposite him, is Limbaugh. Limbaugh is an idealist who stands on issues and principles. That's easy for him to do since he doesn't run for office I guess. If an issue comes up, he looks at it as an issue of what is 'right' in terms of his conservative beliefs. "National Health Care" means bigger taxes, larger government, and less freedom, therefore it is wrong. He isn't approaching the issue as a political game per se. He's taking a stand on what he believes is right.

Powell is saying, "Here's what the party should do to win politically..." and Limbaugh is saying, "Here's what the party should do if it wants to do the right thing...". Powell seems like a nice guy, but I tend to agree philosophically with Limbaugh here. The Republican party isn't going to win the next cycle by co-opting liberal positions. They're going to win by taking a stand on priciples such as (1) opposing a radical social agenda (2) trying to stop the alarming increases in federal power (3) condeming the quadrupling of our national debt, etc... etc...

Let's put is simply... John McCain is a RINO just like Colin Powell. RINO candidates suck. They don't win elections.

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Lyrics:

EH: I think this is an ignoramus statement
Umm, I was even a person who thought
You know what, power to Joe the Plumber at that point
SG: Before he went around laying his pipe all over town
EH: Well, Joe the Plumber is not invited
Anywhere around me
EG: Does baby need a tissue?
Thinking about the time the plumber kissed you
Before you caught him creeping with the shitzu
RM: As republicans, the party does seem to be in chaos
RP: They need to change their attitude, attitude
Their attitude, attitude
MG: Ay, tells us what your homeys can do
To make a change
RP: You know, they talk about personal freedoms
They have to believe in it, you know
MG/RM: We know!
RP: To believe in it, you know
MG/RM: We know!
RP: To believe in it, you know
MG/RM: We know, we know, we know you just got to believe
RP: To believe in it, you know
MG/RM: We know!
RP: To believe in it, you know
MG/RM: We know!
RP: To belieeeeeeeeeve! Lieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve!
MG: You saying Republicans on crack
Are you cozy with the Democrats?
RP: I just don't think that either party
Right now offers a whole lot
MG: You'll see some real change
From the 3rd party at my house
Poppin champagne, bacardi; gettin crunked out
Triple rhymin with Joe Biden
While we Imbibin Hennessy
Come on over--drinks on me, homey
HK: We'll be friends with you
AZ: And bff with you
Main Damies with you
HK: And colleagues with you
AZ: I'll be in your crew
HK: I'll be in yours, too
AZ: Jumpin rope with you
HK: Playin Donkey Kong with you
AZ: Hatchin plans with you
HK/AZ: invade Tajikistan with you
HC: We do not believe either Afghanistan or Pakistan
Can achieve lasting progress
Without the full participation of all of your citizens
Including women and girls
AZ: Having a barbecue
HK: Grilling a goat with you
AZ: Grilling terrorists, too
HK: Getting matching tattoos
HC: The rights of women must be respected and protect--
AZ: --Picking flowers with you
HK: Hot showers with you
AZ: Falling in love with you
HK: Nude at the zoo
AZ/HK: Making memories at the pottery wheel, rubbing clay on you all afternoon
KC: It would be one of the most dramatic
Foreign policy about faces ever
AG: To what do you refer, shawtayee?
KC: A bipartisan bill in Congress would end
The 47-year-old trade freeze with Cuba
AG: Ojalá congreso le gusta esta
KC: It has only spotty support so far
But President Obama's already taken some baby steps
Letting Cuban Americans visit family members
And send them money
But for most of us it's still a place that is
Strictly off limits
AG: Not for this G
I just went there illegally
Speaking of which, will you buy drugs from me
On national TV?
Don't fret--the people think I'm joking
But guess what (what?)?
I've never joked in my life; ooh-wee, shawtayee
KC: The trade embargo made sense a half century ago
AG: That's 50 years
KC: During the Cold War
Fidel Castro took sides with the enemy
But the Soviet Union is long gone
AG: Disbanded:
KC/AG: Long gooooone!
SG: Dick Cheney. Rush Limbaugh or Colin Powell. Who's your damie?
DC: Well, if I had to choose, uh
In terms of being a Republican I'd go with Rush Limbaugh
My take on it was Colin had already left the party
SG: I don't think that actually happened
[awkward silence]
This is an awkward silence;
I guess I'll fill it with ad libs
Oh! Shawty! Yeah
EG: Whoo! Aaaah
KC: Now it's up to Fidel and Raúl Castro
AG: Esos Castros locos. Cuidado
KC: President Obama says he wants to see Democratic reforms
Particularly on human rights and free speech
So congress will be looking for signs of change
After almost 50 years
AG: Ay, that's half a century
KC: U.S. policy will not reverse overnight
Relations remain chilly
But for the 1st time in generations
A thaw is possible
AG: A thaw, but what sort of thaw?
What exactly is thawing?
KC: Very, very, very, very
Very thin ice
AG/KC: Very thin ice, very thin ice, very thin ice

Wait, what? Now I'm confused as to who you're talking to. I assume it's me since I'm who you quoted. But where am I wrong?

USA didn't fuck-up Iraq? We have no responsibility to help them financially?

"Sorry guys, we bombed the shit out of your country, destroyed your infrastructure, your electrical grid, your sewage and water systems. We leveled your hospitals and schools, filled your morgues and cemetaries, disbanded your armies and killed off your police forces. We even were kind enough to leave your museums open to looters, almost erasing your cultural artifacts, which happen to kinda be important since Babylon n shit was like all first human colonies n stuff. But, you guys been around these parts a while now. I'm sure you need no help or money from us. BYE!!"



@blankfist: Sorry, I read the sentence wrong. I did read your whole stupid thing, but I missed that part, cuz i dum. also.


>> ^imstellar28:
Your logic is wrong on so many levels, I'd need a ladder to even attempt to address it. Since arguing with you is about as constructive as arguing with a brick wall, I'll just leave a comment here noting that people think you are wrong.
>> ^volumptuous:
That was personal?
I'm just wondering what you're getting at here. There are many ways the Gov should fix messes they've created.
Iraq is a good one. As Colin Powell said to GWB "You break it, you own it."
Obviously the Bush admin was too corrupt and incompetent to fix a fucking flat tire, but still, the US now owes Iraq big time. We completely fucked their shit up, and to not fix it is a horrendous idea.

Your logic is wrong on so many levels, I'd need a ladder to even attempt to address it. Since arguing with you is about as constructive as arguing with a brick wall, I'll just leave a comment here noting that people think you are wrong.

>> ^volumptuous:
That was personal?
I'm just wondering what you're getting at here. There are many ways the Gov should fix messes they've created.
Iraq is a good one. As Colin Powell said to GWB "You break it, you own it."
Obviously the Bush admin was too corrupt and incompetent to fix a fucking flat tire, but still, the US now owes Iraq big time. We completely fucked their shit up, and to not fix it is a horrendous idea.

That was personal?

I'm just wondering what you're getting at here. There are many ways the Gov should fix messes they've created.

Iraq is a good one. As Colin Powell said to GWB "You break it, you own it."

Obviously the Bush admin was too corrupt and incompetent to fix a fucking flat tire, but still, the US now owes Iraq big time. We completely fucked their shit up, and to not fix it is a horrendous idea.

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The whole earth is warming. You are a monkey. There were no weapons of mass destruction. Two planes destroyed the world trade center.

Get over it.

Great vid though. I wish he had run this last time. Him and Colin Powell, not that Obama wont be great, I just would have been happy to see him out there.

I think you're a complete asshole for the way you analzyed me (incorrectly). I've put you in the same category as qualm,quantumushroom and Billoreilly after this comment.

It's clear that you don't like anyone that has an unbiased opinion or analyzes what's being said in the political realm that doesn't admonish what you so dearly love.

I at least have the decency to not judge you without knowing enough facts. However... the stereotype of me on here has made it quite easy for you now hasn't it? Thanks for the no vote and slanderous opinion of me. Anyone that comments on my vids and doesn't vote gets a black mark in my books. And furthermore.. those that paint an incorrect picture of me (especially when I'm posting raw news without opinions) gets a major red mark. This is why I equate you with the likes of that of Billo, qualm and quantumushroom. Congrats. Your vids will no longer get votes from me.

I can't believe I actually had a great deal of respect for you. You've shattered that with this comment. Jerk.

In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
I'm a glass-half-full sort of guy. I hear this, and go "I know what he means, the people who have a beef with us around the world probably won't wait until September to try and knock Obama off his stride, but he'll probably handle that fine."

A glass-half-empty sort of guy hears this and says "oh shit, terrorists are coming, why can't they just leave us alone, I hope they don't do anything near here".

You are the someone-probably-replaced-my-half-glass-of-tasty-beverage-with-a-half-glass-of-poison-how-do-I-dispose-of-it-without-them-knowing-I-know kind of guy, who sees this and says "Colin Powell is in on a plot to stage a domestic terror attack, and he just admitted it on national television, by accidentally expressing foreknowledge of the date!"

Couldn't have been a rhetorical device, since the 21st or 22nd would be the 2 days immediately after Obama's inauguration...

Just under 3 weeks until we get to see whether this is accurate or not, since we have a date certain to mark on our calendars.

Unless they changed the date since Powell blabbed it on MTP...

Curses, foiled again!

Yeah, Israeli footage proves it all.

Reminds me of, oh, I don't know, all of those weapons Colin Powel told us about in Iraq.

Or this:

Tel Aviv - The United Nations suspended all activities in the Gaza Strip Thursday, accusing Israeli soldiers of firing on a marked UN vehicle during a three-hour humanitarian cease-fire initiated by Israel.
Source

Of course, Israel will deny that, or come up with some plausible excuse, and of course, we all better believe them or else we're just racists.

Let's not forget that relief boat that they rammed, then denied ramming.

According to many sources, a lot of people were killed in those schools and none of them were militants.

But if Israel says they are, well then, who the fuck are we to disagree?

Just a bunch of racists, right?

I'm sorry, man. I know there's two sides to the story, but this is just bullshit and everybody in the world can see it.

Israel, and I'm talking about the political body of the country, has one plan for the Palestinians: complete eradication.

Even if Hamas was out of the picture and the Gazans were doing everything by the book, they would still get pushed around and bombed and blockaded until somebody snapped and gave the IDF another reason to bomb the holy hell out of everything.

Now that I think about it, that slip when saying Black Hawk is rather easily made. Any bets the American that named it was black? I'm looking at you Colin Powell, no, I'm not looking there.

>> ^NetRunner:
You are the someone-probably-replaced-my-half-glass-of-tasty-beverage-with-a-half-glass-of-poison-how-do-I-dispose-of-it-without-them-knowing-I-know kind of guy, who sees this and says "Colin Powell is in on a plot to stage a domestic terror attack, and he just admitted it on national television, by accidentally expressing foreknowledge of the date!"

Thanks for putting false words in my mouth regarding this news footage. Not very fair.. You perceive what you want to percieive based on a stereotype. If you could look from behind another persons eyes for just a day you would realize that your perception of him/her was once riddled with false perceptions.

Go get some more rocks so you can stone the messenger some more, he's not dead yet.

I'm a glass-half-full sort of guy. I hear this, and go "I know what he means, the people who have a beef with us around the world probably won't wait until September to try and knock Obama off his stride, but he'll probably handle that fine."

A glass-half-empty sort of guy hears this and says "oh shit, terrorists are coming, why can't they just leave us alone, I hope they don't do anything near here".

You are the someone-probably-replaced-my-half-glass-of-tasty-beverage-with-a-half-glass-of-poison-how-do-I-dispose-of-it-without-them-knowing-I-know kind of guy, who sees this and says "Colin Powell is in on a plot to stage a domestic terror attack, and he just admitted it on national television, by accidentally expressing foreknowledge of the date!"

Couldn't have been a rhetorical device, since the 21st or 22nd would be the 2 days immediately after Obama's inauguration...

Just under 3 weeks until we get to see whether this is accurate or not, since we have a date certain to mark on our calendars.

Unless they changed the date since Powell blabbed it on MTP...

Curses, foiled again!

To any who may support affirmative action, answer me this: Should the National Football League or National Basketball Association apply affirmative action to its members?

Consider that the racial components are far outbalanced in the favour of Blacks.

Why should almost exclusively Blacks get such astronomic salaries when they represent fewer than 15% of the American population? Is it fair that their superior genetic predisposition to exceed in sports impede the chance of Whites to play in professional leagues?

Anyone would admit that this would be a ridiculous concept, as it is quite evident that teams are eager to pick up the best possible players to increase their performance. The same applies to society. If you belong at the top you will rise to the top no matter what.

To think that successful Americans such as Condoleezza Rice or Colin Powell have gotten their positions because of their ancestry is an insult to their intelligence and their competence. Their positions were attained due to their capacity and perseverance, nothing less and nothing more.

One must succeed by one's own merit. Being a token in some scheme to prove that race trumps aptitude is fraud in the highest degree.