I have to admit that I was very disappointed with Colin Powell’s time in the Bush administration. I felt that he could have tried to stand up more for what he felt was right. But then I’m not him and I wasn’t there and I don’t know what he did and did not try.<\/p>\n
Regardless, I was delighted by Powell’s statement this morning<\/a>. Particularly the following<\/a>.<\/p>\n Powell said he was also troubled that some members of the Republican Party \u2014 not McCain \u2014 have said, \u201c\u2018Well you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe is not a Muslim, he\u2019s a Christian,\u201d Powell said. \u201cBut the really right answer is \u2018what if he is?\u2019 Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer\u2019s no.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And if anyone has had the misfortune to have heard what Rush Limbaugh is saying, I’d like to quote Al Franken here and just say that “Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot.”<\/p>\n ADDENDUM the First<\/strong>: I have to admit that I was very disappointed with Colin Powell’s time in the Bush administration. I felt that he could have tried to stand up more for what he felt was right. But then I’m not him and I wasn’t there and I don’t know what he did and did not try. Regardless, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[186,185],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-barak-obama","tag-colin-powell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-PM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSee also: Eric<\/a> and Anne<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"