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Who's a Racist?

Bob_K Wrote: Oct 30, 2012 4:07 PM

Actually, true Republicans don't believe the party has gone far enough to the right. And they're right. The party will continue to move to the right and drag the country with it. Which will result in a far more powerful, energetic country then the weak greece country the left is hoping for. Powell is a very poor analytic, voting simply on race. Anything else seems too deep for someone like him, who was elevated by all kinds of affirmative action programs, not true ability.

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Who's a Racist?

On MSNBC's Ed Schultz program Friday night, the former chief of staff for Colin Powell, retired Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, said, of the Republican Party, "My party is full of racists ... and the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander in chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin ... that's despicable."

Wilkerson's allegation followed his former boss's endorsement of President Obama for a second term. The...

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