John McCain Lashes Out At Colin Powell After Obama Endorsement

[highplainsdem]

Source: TPM

John McCain bitterly denounced former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Thursday for supporting President Obama for a second straight election.

“General Powell, you disappoint us and you have harmed your legacy even further by defending what is clearly the most feckless foreign policy in my lifetime,” McCain told Brian Kilmeade on his radio program.

In 2008, Powell’s late backing of Obama over McCain was one of the most widely-covered endorsements of the campaign.

Once again, Powell weighed in towards the end of the race this week, telling CBS News that he stands by the president based on his first term performance on the economy and foreign policy alike. According to Powell, he witnessed “the president get us out of one war, start to get us out of a second war and did not get us into any new wars. And finally I think that the actions he has taken with respect to protecting us from terrorism have been very very solid. And so, I think we ought to keep on the track that we are on.”

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Read more: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/john-mccain-lashes-out-at-colin-powell-after-obama-endorsement.php

[imgbitepolitic]

1. haha

awwww

[onehandle]

2. 'feckless foreign policy' = Not invading Iran.

[Kolesar]

35. F-cking McCain said that at his RNC speech a month ago

He said the Iranian citizens were rising up and all we had to do was invade or something.

[kelliekat44]

46. Bitter, bitter old man. He will never get over Obama defeating him. Sad, sad,sad.

[freshwest]

60. Ah, you beat me to it. Thanks. What a great guy!

[nolabear]

3. Further evidence that the GOP is a done duck.

The GOP moderates (and sadly McCain is now in that category) are coming unglued as the RWNJs take over.

[byeya]

4. The two deserve each other!

[bemildred]

5. Priceless. nt

[heaven05]

6. ha!

I love it.

[DCBob]

7. McWar's foreign policy: "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran".

What an idiot.

[Supersedeas]

67. Sarah Palin bona fides

[Delphinus]

8. Is John McCain alright?

He seems to be all over the place. Says one thing one day, something else the next. Very odd.

[vduhr]

16. Onset of.......

Romnesia. McCain has had this condition for a while, but the lack of exercising his brain (exposure to the extreme right) has caused his condition to worsen.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. If anyone destroyed their legacy, it's McCain

Say what you will about Powell, he never did this:

and bear in mind, this was after the Bush team smeared McCain's adopted daughter as 'a black love child"

and can we finally quit pretending McCain is a foreign policy expert - the guy opposed going into Pakistan to get Bin Laden, for god's sake.

[SunSeeker]

33. +1

[BE10sCoach]

10. Powell vs McCain

Colin Powell does not need a 'dressing down" fron that increasingly bitter Ole Cremudegon McCain. Jogn McCain was at one time a person who could be reasonable and work across party lines, he is not now! Go to bed,Senator, it's pretty late for old , forgetful guys like you to be up.

[Solly Mack]

11. Snort

[GrantDem]

12. I believe one has to question McCain's mental state at this point.

If you have the GOP tell it, unless we are running around the globe slapping the shit out of everybody we are weak.

[SCVDem]

13. Us? Who is this US McCain speaks of?

As a USMC vet I can say I support Powell and want Gramps to resign and try learning how to fly.

This is his fault we have the Wicked Witch of the North!

Go away!

[Plucketeer]

14. "How many houses do we own" McCain tries to smear a general

Colonel Crash McCain today, showed his ass once again in dissing a celebrated American General. McCain was outraged that a fellow Rethuglican could demonstrate independent thinking and attitude.
General POWell observed (off the record, of course) that Senator McCain's brain is MIA, and has been since he left the Hanoi Hilton.

[jody]

15. Just latest incident in growing political polarization that stymies and stifles any hope of

a representative form of democracy for these United States.

Under such conditions the corporatists finance both major parties to keep voters fighting while they pass laws that inexorably strangles a once free and sovereign "We the People".

[JudyM]

56. +1 especially the way McCain Personalized the criticism.

[jody]

66. I'm a Yellow Dog Democrat in the Jefferson/Madison pattern and I wonder how Obama or any president

can govern a society with two sides with such intense hatred of each other.

If we fail, then there's no hope for the rest of the world.

[JudyM]

76. Don't lose hope; there are other democracies that aren't so 'on the take' as our politicians are. nt

[rtracey]

17. no sir

As I stated on the talking Points Memo site......

Mr. McCain, didn't Colin Powell harm his legacy, by sitting at the United Nations and basically lying to the group by saying Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? Didn't he hurt his legacy by allowing the Bush administration to continue to invade Iraq when they knew they were wrong? And Sir aren't you destroying your reputation by becoming a shill for every Fox news analyst that needs a voice against America and the President?

[roody]

48. AND having Picasso's Guernica covered

for his day of lying at the UN.

[Wait Wut]

18. And, Powell responded,

"Fuck off old man and eat your toast."

[NICO9000]

54. Unfortunately, he couldn't use "old man" since he's only a year younger than Grampy

He looks a lot better though given his age.

[Wait Wut]

57. I did not know that.

Damn. McCain looks at least a decade older.

[mac56]

19. "Old Man Yells At Cloud"

[Aerows]

24. LOL

That's pretty much what I thought, too!

[BumRushDaShow]

29. And to illustrate

[Mike Daniels]

44. I don't care how many times I see that graphic...

it still kills me.

[Actionman]

20. Still pissy

about not receiving Powell's endorsement in 2008 and angry about being rejected by the American people.

[hamsterjill]

21. THIS from a man who chose Sarah Palin as a running mate?

'Nuff said.

Legacy, Mr. McCain? You betcha!!!

[Joey Liberal]

27. Yes, from the man who chose Caribou Barbie:)........

[yardwork]

59. The definition of feckless.

Choosing Ms. "I can see Putin from my house" Palin as next in line for the presidency.

[Dawgs]

22. Interesting that McCain would be talking about a feckless foreign policy to Powell.

The guy who do a powerpoint presentation to sell us the Iraq war.

[bullwinkle428]

23. What he REALLY wanted to say: "Grumble, grumble, grumble...'those people' always stick together!!1!"

[LibGranny]

25. McFein is truly the BITTER OLD MAN!

He couldn't win a presidential election even though he tried (coupla times) and he resents that Obama did so on his first try! McFein is as ugly on the inside as he is on the outside!

[Joey Liberal]

26. Getting Bin Laden was Feckless?

McCain is a jerk.

[Swede Atlanta]

28. McGramps needs to resign from the Senate and go home......

At one time he was a maverick in his party and someone who sought solutions by engaging the other side of the aisle. He has been brainwashed by the tea baggers that obstruction is the name of the game.

Let's see about Obama's foreign policy....
- Troops home from Iraq - check
- Timeline for leaving Afghanistan in place - check
- OBL dead - check
- AQ leadership dead or on the run - check
- Attempts to blow up civilian aircraft thwarted - check
- World opinion of U.S. significantly improved - check
- Tunisia, Libya and Egypt - dictators gone and transition underway - check*
- Syria - regime likely on its way out - check*
- Somali pirates dead and counter-measures proving promising - check
- No successful foreign terrorist attacks on the homeland - check (but plenty of gun-crazed domestic terrorist attacks)
*Not perfect, far from being completed but at least we can say the citizens of these countries have a fighting chance to chart their own course

There have been misses and potential failures as well. That will happen under any President

[SoapBox]

34. Excellent post.

[SemperEadem]

30. "... harmed your legacy...", said the buffoon who chose sarah palin as his running mate.

[BumRushDaShow]

31. Translation: "Get off my (green screen) lawn!"

[SoapBox]

32. "John McCain bitterly..."

Says it all right there. Bitter.

Grampy McSame...just retire already. You've really got no credibility left as it is.

[UpInArms]

36. McInsane strikes again!

feckless?????



this pos has finally shoved the last stick up his own legacy - stupidity is now everlasting

[George II]

50. That was the day after Katrina destroyed New Orleans.

[UpInArms]

70. yes - whilst the feckless George

played



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so, you see, McInsane knows "feckless"

sigh

[olegramps]

37. McCain is what he always has been.

Like3 Bush and Romney he is nothing more than a hopelessly underachieving privileged brat that has never has grown up. His appointment to the Naval Academy was not on merit but solely because his father and grandfather were admirals. He would have been kicked out if his father had not interceded and graduated at the bottom of the class. He was a lousy pilot. Left his wife when he discovered she was crippled and hooked up a millionaire drug addict that could buy him a seat in congress and a modicum of respectability. He always was little jerk who his preschool classmates referred to as McNasty. Sure he picked Palin, she is as brain dead as he is.

[lumpy]

52. You got it right. McCain never has been an American hero. His whole life has been scripted.

Phony 'war hero'. Blunderer, blusterer fake.

[olegramps]

53. Right on.

[pwb]

38. McCain crashed four planes and was the only prisoner not to make rank as a POW.

He spoke on north Vietnamese radio against American troops and also gave out bombing routes to the enemy. This loser has no business telling a man who made General anything. Why anybody thinks this mans opinion on anything is important is beyond me.

[Allgernon]

39. Grampy's misguided complaint

In comparison, it is impossible to imagine how Grampy could criticize O's foreign policy in light of the record of his predecessor.
Only advancing senility can explain it.

[Barbara2423]

40. Is John McCain still around? Nobody cares what he says.

[CreekDog]

41. Someone get McCain the script --Romney's foreign policy is now the same as Obama's

someone needs to watch the third debate.

[spiderpig]

42. This from someone who foisted Sarah Palin on the American public?

Spare me.

[99th_Monkey]

43. THANKS JOHN! I hadn't heard of Powell's endorsement, so you've helped Obama.

by making a big deal out of it, now millions of US voters (like me) are thinking,
"Wow. I hadn't heard that Colin Powell had endorsed Obama. hmmm" ...
and are now more likely to vote for Obama, especially Republicans. Woot!

If I didn't know better, I'd think McCain did this on purpose.

[question everything]

45. Thankfully, Powell can tell McCain: bite me (nt)

[thesquanderer]

47. a "feckless foreign policy" virtually indistinguishable from Romney's

After that last debate, I'd say that, in terms of foreign policy, Obama and Romney are are as different as night and... evening. So how could foreign expert policy Powell endorse the "wrong" candidate? But then, maybe McCain was thinking of one of the other days' versions of Romney foreign policies. There are a number to choose from...

[George II]

49. I lose more respect for McCain by the minute - I USED to think he was relatively non-partisan

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

51. Poor, bitter old McCain

Had an outside chance to be president, then allowed a bunch of wingnuts to hijack his campaign and select the Snooki of American Politics as his running mate.

He will be missed.

[Sivafae]

55. Uh-Oh Grandpa's getting angry!

[WillyT]

58. Sour Grapes

& Rec !!!

[politicasista]

61. So cranky n/t

[firenewt]

62. McCain is just jealous Powell has a backbone and he doesn't.

[reflection]

63. 'Game Change' - Heilemann/Halperin, Page 279

"FUCK YOU! FUCK, FUCK, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!!!"

McCain let out the stream of sharp epithets, both middle fingers raised and extended, barking in his wife's face. He was angry; she had interrupted him. Cindy burst into tears, but, really, she should have been used to it by now.

I hope it is not a violation of copyright to post such a small excerpt from this book, but if an appropriate party asks me to, I will gladly take it down. I think this shows some insight into McCain's legendary temper. Glad he didn't get his finger on the proverbial button.

[Major Hogwash]

64. McCain is beaucoup dinky dau

He's still trying to figure out how Sister Sarah got on his ticket back in 2008.

Hell, I didn't even know that he knew what the word "feckless" meant!
Somebody must have told him, after so many people said that about his presidential campaign 4 years ago!

"So, how did you select Sister Sarah to be your running mate, Senator McCain?"

"What?"

"I asked you, how did you select Sister Sarah to be your running mate"

"John S. McCain, Captain, 72045699"

"No, what I asked you was, how did you select Sister Sarah to be your running mate, Senator McCain?"

"John S. McCain, Captain, 72045699"

"Oh, forget it!"

[wtmusic]

65. You kids get off my LAWN!!!

It just seemed appropriate.

[budkin]

68. I always wondered why he was a pube

I'm sure he's sick of all the racist birthee shit.

[spiderpig]

69. This is the guy that put that embarrassing dummy on his ticket in 2008?

As a nation, we'll never live that down.

She was/is a disgrace.

[MrMickeysMom]

71. Really!!! Who gives a SHIT what YOU say, you old shriveled nut sack?

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[BootinUp]

72. The old demented fool really wanted Powell's endorsement in '08

Has to let some of that stewing anger out.

[lexx21]

73. WTF "legacy" is he talking about?

A legacy of war?
A legacy of what amounts to a secret police force?
A legacy of freely sending American youth to die on foreign soil for oil interests?
A legacy of domestic policies that got us into a recession?
A legacy of alienating us from the rest of the world?

Just what fucking legacy is McCain talking about here that Powell should be supporting?

[NHDEMFORLIFE]

74. They are coming completely unhinged

History may show that one of President Obama's great achievements is that he has pushed the Republican Party out from behind its tattered curtain and revealed to the country exactly what it has become - the home for petty, divisive, power hungry, mean-spirited political hacks.
Far right wingers have always been all of the above, but were held in check by Republicans like Nelson Rockefeller, who today would be booted from the party of Lincoln. Hacks who have pretended to be moderate voices of reason, like McCain, are the empty suits whose true character has been revealed by the President.
The fruits of this will not show up immediately, but the next generation of voters will want nothing to do with the party of hate and spite.

[JonLP24]

75. This from the guy who wanted to stay in Iraq until the job is done

or the war was won, whatever that is. And also send more troops.