I'm so old, I remember when I respected Colin Powell.

Stevens' character is a slam dunk.

Colin, your not helping to rebuild your reputation.

FTA:In Army infantry talk, Powell said Stevens is a man "you take on a long patrol."

Out to an iceberg and leave him there.

Thankfully Colin Powell is no longer the most respected African American in national politics.

Oh, Colon Powell... say it ain't so.

The nightmares that must haunt his dreams.

carmody: I'm so old, I remember when I respected Colin Powell.


Same here. And I'm 26. I guess that's the new "old".


News flash Colin, chaining yourself to a sinking Republican ship won't keep you afloat.

Corvus: Colin, your not helping to rebuild your reputation.

Yes. It sure looks why sane people avoid Washington, but hell, maybe Stevens always treated Powell well.

But God if I can figure out what keeps that man's world from collapsing into a self referential fustercluck of cognitive dissidence.

You got used Powell.

We're almost 10 posts in, and not a single "Powell is really a good guy, he just got framed by Bush!!" post yet. WTF Fark?

Coco LaFemme: carmody: I'm so old, I remember when I respected Colin Powell.


Same here. And I'm 26. I guess that's the new "old".


Me too, and I'm also 26. Back when I respected Colin Powell I also respected John McCain, what a difference 8 years makes.

I kind of feel sorry for Powell. Yeah, he caved, but before he did he was actually trying to stop the Iraq invasion. He was out-maneuvered repeatedly and after the President of France stood him up for their meeting, there wasn't much he could do.

I respect Powell still. Clearly he's not the type to throw somebody over the side for political expediency. Stevens is a jerk and a pork barrel spender without equal, but he has yet to be proven to be crooked. If and when he is, I hope they throw his butt in prison, but I'll respect Powell's loyalty to a friend.

Cyborg77: Thankfully Colin Powell is no longer the most respected African American in national politics.

I thought he was Jamaican.

"In cross-examination, Powell said he didn't know anything about the case against Stevens."

Quasi-plausible deniability ftw?

ODDwhun: Coco LaFemme: carmody: I'm so old, I remember when I respected Colin Powell.


Same here. And I'm 26. I guess that's the new "old".


Me too, and I'm also 26. Back when I respected Colin Powell I also respected John McCain, what a difference 8 years being the opponent of a Democratic candidate makes.

FTFY

carmody: I'm so old, I remember when I respected Colin Powell.

Me too! It was the day before this.

So, February 4, 2003: a day I still respected Colin Powell.

"Dude, you brought ANTHRAX in here!?!? GTFO!"

Stevens wants to call Ted Kennedy as a character witness? That is the last guy a drowning man wants to come to his defense, as history has shown.

Even sterling tarnishes.

Well this will certainly reverse the current public opinion of the Repubican Party!

Go YOU!

Maybe Palin can be next to put in a good word.

carmody: I'm so old, I remember when I respected Colin Powell.

It sounds like we could have Jataka* stories about Politics given how much has changed all ready.

*-Jataka stories are Buddhist stories of the Buddha's previous incarnations. Often fable-like, teaching simple moral lessons. Here's my version:

Once upon a time there were three animals: a monkey, an elephant and a partridge. They began to discuss which one of them was the oldest of the bunch. The oldest was the one who will deserve special respect.

The elephant said, "Remember when the Stock Market went up every year, and a 100 point jump one way or another was news!"

The monkey said "That's nothing. I'm so old, I remember when Republicans were the people complaining about a war with no time-table!"

The partridge said "When I was young, Colin Powell was a respected war hero."

The elephant and the monkey then bent down and paid him homage. And I, the Buddha, was that partridge.

jjorsett: FTFY

Most of us lost respect for McCain when he flip-flopped on torture.

Uncle Tom's renovated cabin!

Damn it Powell, when are you going to stop?

I am a Republican, but I drove through a farmer's market while I was drunk. Can you testify for me?

Who cares what a proven liar like Colin Powell says? You may as well ask Bill Clinton to be a character witness on Cheaters.

Mugato: Cyborg77: Thankfully Colin Powell is no longer the most respected African American in national politics.

I thought he was Jamaican.

Jamacian?! I thought he was some kind of deep-space potato man!

The Why Not Guy: Who cares what a proven liar like Colin Powell says? You may as well ask Bill Clinton to be a character witness on Cheaters.

or to be David Duchovny's sex addicts anonymous sponsor.

You can't hold power for 40 years and not become corrupt. People always fall.

Dude, Colin ... you suck and no one likes you anymore. Way to thoroughly own that.

jjorsett: ODDwhun: Coco LaFemme: carmody: I'm so old, I remember when I respected Colin Powell.


Same here. And I'm 26. I guess that's the new "old".


Me too, and I'm also 26. Back when I respected Colin Powell I also respected John McCain, what a difference 8 years being the opponent of a Democratic candidate makes.

FTFY

Don't pretend McCain 2000 wouldn't kick this version in the nuts. This McCain is even voting against bills he wrote, so don't try to tell me he hasn't changed a lot.

/Also since I was 18 in 2000 it was my first election, I would have voted for McCain over Gore. Who knows voting Republican could have become a habit.

DarnoKonrad: You got used Powell.

Willingly. He was willingly used. He peddled his integrity to a cause, and then later discovered that cause was quite happy to dispose of him once finished.

Just because his users were corrupt doesn't make him any less corrupt for his involvement.

Powell had many opportunities to leave this corrupt administration.
His "Powell doctrine", he threw that in the crapper early on, yet stayed with Bush knowing nearly every condition for US involvement in a foreign country, at least according to HIS doctrine, was violated.
The UN thingee...that was the final nail in his political coffin.
Going before the world and telling them a lie, knowing it to be a lie.




"I'm the one who presented it on behalf of the United States to the world, and [it] will always be a part of my record,"

As for Stevens...the US attorneys have a fix on...they're doing everything they can to FARK this case up so Stevens will get off.
Hopefully Obama will be smart enough to vet his US attorneys when he replaces them.

FTFA: ...ordered that a list of character witnesses that the defense wanted to call to the stand - including Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass

Wow, them officers always tell the truth. Just like Ollie North.

Until the armed services strips North of his rank, they are all complicit in his lies.

I used to like Powell - then he supported the Bush administration in their deception. Ah well, live and learn.

Colin Powell's reputation is aluminum.

During Vietnam, a Major Colin Powell was heavily invovled in trying to cover up the My Lai massacre for the Americal Division.

Gee, I wonder if they're related? They certainly look alike, and a guy who was a General in 1991 probably would have been a Major around 1968.



Huh, they even look alike. But it can't be him, right? Except for that whole U.N. debacle, he's always been an upstanding guy. Right?

/Yeah, I know he's a Colonel in the photo.

I remember a thread here where people tried to defend him and I said "If you don't have the balls to stand up to the President, you don't have the balls to be the President."

As I recall, people generally agreed with me.

He's going to make some biographer famous for dissecting the mind of a man who could have had everything if he hadn't been such a pussy every time push came to shove.

My loss of respect for McCain has to do with his recent abandonment of personal honor and dignity, not the identity of his political opponent. Truly sad.

...and we all know how truthful Powell was the last time he testified.

And after he left Stevens side, he went to a press conference to announce he was opening a chain of Fried Chicken restaurants.

Look out Colonel, her comes the General!!!

You'll love my chicken...it's the bomb!!!

Maybe he is trying to atone for trying to cover up the My Lai massacre by testifying on behalf of a corrupt Alaskan senator.

carmody: I'm so old, I remember when I respected Colin Powell.

Uh, wow. I'll get off your lawn right away, sir.

I just hope this case (and many others like it) come up next time the leeches in DC complain about being underpaid. Usually there's some line about traveling back to the home district and having to keep two households. (One in the home district and one in DC)

Stevens's defense is, he was just never billed $250,000 worth of work on his house. If you can lose track of $250,000, you're either weak in the head, or too rich to complain about what your day job pays.

Duke Cunningham had a mansion and a yacht. If you live like someone on 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' and your peers are not immediately suspicious, you're too rich to complain about what your day job pays.

If you forget how many homes you own and need refer the question to a staff member, you're too rich to complain about what your day job pays.

YEaaaaa...if my only character witness available to me at a trial was colin powell, i would ask him to stay home