Colin Powell: Obama Blew Away the Birthers
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ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — Colin Powell told graduates of South Carolina’s premier historically black university that they were graduating during a tumultuous time that saw a royal wedding, a pope’s beatification and a U.S. military assault that killed Osama bin Laden, “the worst person on earth.”
But the former secretary of state and Joint Chiefs chairman told South Carolina State University’s 400 graduates on Friday that he particularly enjoyed another recent event: “That was when President Obama took out his birth certificate and blew away Donald Trump and all the birthers!”
The stadium roared in approval of Powell‘s comments on the president’s move last week to quell the doubts of those who don’t believe he was born in Hawaii. The retired Army four-star general endorsed Obama’s 2008 presidential bid.
Earlier Friday, Powell was made an honorary member of the school’s ROTC hall of fame.
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Mary M. Tebbe
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 9:57pmHe didn’t blow away this “birther”. I’ve done my homework, and I still believe that Obama was born in Kenya, and is not legally the president of this Country. I also believe that this certificate of live birth that Obama hauled out last week is a fake as was the first Hawaiian birth certificate that he tried to pass off on the American people. Call me what you want, but I’m standing by what I believe. We haven’t gone away Mr. Powell, and I doubt we ever will. There is too much evidence stacked against this man’s legitimacy. There is also the fraudulent social security number, the Grandmother’s statement that she was present at the birth, Michelle’s comment that Africa was his home, etc., etc. One day the TRUTH will come out…it always eventually does.
Report Post »elphi43
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 3:49pmI still think both Obama and his birth certificate are fake. After a Hawaiian hospital administrator quit earlier this year, because he could not locate Obama’s birth certificate. Then teams of private investigators, could not locate Obama’s birth certificate. But once Obama’s numbers start to drop; “surprise,” here’s the missing birth certificate! Nice job on the long form, CIA, FBI, or who ever printed it up.
Report Post »Sam Brown
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 11:51amObama blew away Osama to get the birth certificate out of the headlines. Killing Osama wasn’t something the great warrior Powell could manage when he had the guns.
Sammy
Report Post »Elephantinroom
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 11:26pmYou are not alone.
Report Post »powhatan
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 10:30amNo, Obama encouraged the whole thing because he waited so long to release his info…just for this purpose …a pompass ass!
Report Post »Elephantinroom
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 11:22pmLOVE your insight. The liberal main stream media constantly tries to spin this issue as a “birther” issue. You highlighted the fact that Obama actually instigated the issue. The liberal main stream media acts like they can orchestrate the dialouge, WITHOUT including the facts.
Report Post »Brianroy
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 10:04amPowell spoke to a “captive” audience. There was no question and answer session, just a soliloquy to challenge his lying to cover for Obama, who isn’t even Constitutionally qualified. “No Person except a Natural Born Citizen..shall be eligible to the Office of President….” US Constitution: Article 2, section 1, Clause 5. “…the term ‘natural born citizen’ is used and excludes all persons owing allegiance by birth to foreign states.” The New Englander and Yale Law Review, Volume 3 (1845), p. 414. “…at the time of his birth, Barack Obama Jr. was both a U.S. citizen (by virtue of being born in Hawaii) and a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies (or the UKC) by virtue of being born to a father who was a citizen of the UKC.” http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/does_barack_obama_have_kenyan_citizenship.html Elk v. Wilkins, 112 US 94 (1884) @ 101-102 states that: “The main object of the opening sentence of the fourteenth amendment was …to put it beyond doubt that all persons, white or black, and …OWING NO ALLEGIANCE TO ANY ALIEN POWER, should be citizens of the United States and of the state in which they reside.” Obama’s Father and Obama Jr. owed allegiance to the UK as British Citizens AT BIRTH. Hence, Obama is an ILLEGAL occupier of the US Presidency, born a Brit…hence, NOT a US Natural Born Citizen, which requires a US Citizen Father. Rather than debate the Law, the Obama defenders run away, stall, and deny. It’s part of their l
Report Post »hempstead1944
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 9:26amPowell sold out a long time ago……he is nothing more than a political hack now…..
Report Post »Bill359
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 10:14amYou hit the nail on the head ! ! ! Even as he leads this country off a cliff, the same country that Powell spent his whole fighting for,…Powell is out there stumping for his “brother” JUST BECAUSE he is half black.
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 8:51amAnd it made his frickin Day !
Report Post »peterpatriot
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 8:39amIts easy to speak to a captive audience. Try asking the blue collar rednecks who work every day and have their paycheck raped by the goverment to pay for the liberal/ progressive democratic party programs to reassure their reelection. I firmly belive that if you do not work and pay taxes you should not be allowed to vote.
Report Post »peterpatriot
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 8:36amIts easy to get approval from a captive audience try asking the blue collar rednecks who work every day and get raped on payday to pay for all the social programs the liberal / progressive democrats want to provide to ensure their reelection.
Report Post »Jo-Georgia
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 6:42amHe’s just still mad that Bush fired him.
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 6:51amLet it go Colin…
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 6:12amColin: Who said you could get up?
Report Post »sbeejustsaying
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 9:56amThat’s cold.
Report Post »Elephantinroom
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 11:11pm#Truth
Report Post »GadsdenPatriot
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 2:21amWhat an idiot. And this coming from Powell, a Republican who turned his back on everything his party stands for just to cast his racist vote for a Marxist candidate. Goes to show you how important skin color REALLY is to this little pathetic creature.
What it released loaded in layers in Adobe Illustrator that toggle on and off– making specific layers of writing disappear and reappear– show it as a blatant fraud. With an obvious forgery I don’t trust anything Barry produces. Not to mention his father being listed as “African” which makes Barry ineligible to hold office since you need BOTH parents to be US citizens to be considered by the Constitution, natural born! This rule has nothing to do with being a US citizen, it is a law that ONLY applies to POTUS. He’s got everyone in his pocket and is getting away with anything and everything he feels like with no regard for laws and especially the Constitution. We’ve not seen this level of corruption in government, ever! Where is the media coverage? Of course George Commie Swine Soros Media, Inc. is silent.
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 4:19amPowell got out because he was misled into war. He is a good soldier
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 6:42amPowell is a well heeled insider
and Damn well that there was no weapons of wmd
I am so tired of hearing the ridicules story that he was lied to.
Did this Moron look at the spy satellite Pics or not ?
The military
even back then had Google earth times 100.
wake up sheep you are being conned and lied to at every turn.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 6:44amAll hail to the great Molech !
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 8:17amThe “MS” media is just watching their own rhetoric over and over again. They created the “birther” vocabulary to try to silence questions of eligibility. That worked so well (even on the right), that they now believe their own false vocabulary. They are proudly building their own house of cards.
Saddam Hussein used WMDs several times on his own people, small easily dissimulated, highly effective WMDs. Colin Powell showed his true colors when he decided to ignore this reality. Perhaps he will be made to regret his “birther” comments and he’ll want back in to the other side. Lock the door!
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 8:21amSTEELHEAD, why don’t you go look up the films of Halabja.
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 3:51pmGet Life- Just because the Reagan Adm. sold gas to Saddam should be reason enough to know that argument about Wmd’s comes right back to our involvement to begin with
Report Post »Elephantinroom
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 11:06pmI agree. Powell stood strong when he was initially being seduced by the liberal mainstream media, to run for office. He, initially, said he would run as a Republican, because those were the convictions he truly held. He sold out. I’m a Republican. If you are a Republican, could you somehow, instantaneously, endorse Obama? Powell has been a public servant. He has taken our tax dollars, and soaked up public adoration. He now endorses Obama. He is not now, and not possibly ever could have been a true conservative. Fake, hokey, lame, pathetic, has been. Go away. Or at least claim yourself as a liberal democrat, and not a conservative. We paid you money. Faker. Give it back.
Report Post »bringbacknixon
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 1:04amBill Maher: “Barack Obama Is One Efficient, Steely-Nerved, Multitasking, Black Ninja Gangster President”
Report Post »tbear44
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 4:20amA pope’s beautification? What does that even mean?
Report Post »dr_funk
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 5:51amToo bad it was FORGED. And very poorly so. There are so many duplicated characters and check boxes, its not even funny.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 5:52amThese elitists all think alike. They think they are above the law and we are under the law
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 6:37amBarry Soetoro – Barry Soetoro – Barry Soetoro
hey didn’t Powell also lie about Iraq having WMDs ?
http://www.infowars.com/cindy-sheehan-if-you-believe-the-newest-death-of-osama-bin-laden-youre-stupid/
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 6:39amPowell is a Grover
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grandmaof5
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 7:48amI used to have the utmost respect for Colin Powell but, as a man, it is totally gone. At one time I would have voted for him for POTUS, luckily I never had a chance, thanks to his wife. Very disappointing. His mouth has taken over his brain and class.
Report Post »one yrs. food ration like Glenn says..
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 8:23amYes and I always vote for people too, based on their skin color ,no matter WHAT they stand for.. Me and colin powell of crap, see eye to eye…
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 11:48amOne thing this country needs and hasn’t yet received is a Colin cleansing. A good Fleet’s Enema ought to do the trick, make our Colin clean as a whistle! (Pffft!)
Report Post »karlie
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 2:49pmForget about the “birthers” which I have read originated during Hillary’s quest for the Democratic nomination against Obama, there are a couple of issue far more damaging, in my opinion. That is the absolute fact that our founding fathers understanding the damage which could be done to our country, inserted in the Constitution the phrase, “natural born citizen” as an absolute requirement to being an American President. While the Constitution does not explain the meaning of this phrase, the founders did. It meant to them, ALL Presidents Must be born in the USA and their PARENTS also MUST BE BORN IN THE USA. According to Obama’s birth certificate his father was born in Kenya, East Africia. John McCain was vetted to be President and Obama co-sponsored the vetting process using this criteria. Yep, shocked me too, but its all on-line, please check!!! Also as a young student in Indonesia, he is listed as a citizen of Indonesia. IF THERE ARE ANY OUT THERE WHO LOVE THIS COUNTRY AND OUR CONSTITUTION, please demand of your political leaders to VET him if he runs in 2012! Also, might ask state reps. to include in state‘s constitution that all Presidental Candidates be vetted in order to be on your state’s voting ballot. Again, please check for yourself and read, read, what the founding fathers said before making your decisions. May God bless and protect the USA!
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