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Colin Powell: Occupy Wall Street Demonstrations as ‘American as Apple Pie’

Colin Powell: Occupy Wall Street Demonstrations As American as Apple Pie

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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called the ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstrations “as American as apple pie,” though he expressed concern about the violence that has emerged in parts of the movement.

Calling the protests a sign of frustration in a time where work opportunities are more limited, Powell recalled his own upbringing when his parents — both immigrants — always held jobs. Even if they were low-paying, he said, it was enough.

“They always had work,” Powell told CNN’s Piers Morgan in an interview aired Thursday. “People are concerned now that there is not that work source of income.”

With Occupy Wall Street, he said, people are unhappy and they’re “directing their unhappiness toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.”

“I don’t begrudge anybody who has earned a good salary as part of our capitalist system,” he said. “[But] demonstrations like this are as American as apple pie. We’ve been marching up and down and demonstrating throughout our history.”

He continued, “I get a little concerned when demonstrations turn into violence or when some of the demonstrators demonstrate absolute nihilism and they’re really not interested in anything but destruction and tearing down the system.”

Powell said the biggest concern is the income gap, which needs to be addressed politically.

“Those who are not doing as well, are not seeing their lives improving…there’s angriness there and this is something I think our Wall Street friends need to think about and this is something our political friends need to think about,” he said. “It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, we need our political system to start reflecting this anger back.”

Watch the interview below, via CNN:

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  • Thorkratos
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:01pm

    Another example of how satan has infiltrated the mind of a once respected military leader. Spiritual battle at full force has caused this cloudy vision of reality. These protests are ironically based on selfishness and forgetting God.

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:06pm

      Rapes, drugs, arrests, oh my! That Mr. Powell, is some rotten apple pie.

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:13pm

      It’s past time that serious intellectual people with influence that love the US Constitution to begin considering how best to divide the Nation up into 4, 5, maybe 6 districts so that we can all live under the type of Gov’t of our choosing. There’s no logical reason to keep the Union together because we are obviously more different than many nations are.. As different as night is from day. If we don’t we are fastly approaching a time of blood shed.

      Unfortunately this idea will probably not be given serious consideration and we most likely slip into some form of dictatorship within the next 20 years.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:14pm

      What you don’t seem to understand is that the “Occupiers” are the elites Green Grasses, and you are the weed.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:17pm

      And I am the weed also.

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    • PASSIONFORCHRIST
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:18pm

      Why wasn’t he asked about how he felt about the blatant communism and socialism agenda for AMERICA by these people? We are built like Rome and we will fall like Rome, from within.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:20pm

      Does it seem a little odd to you that Satan’s…I mean Santa’s Suit used to be “Green” when it was created long ago in Europe, and then they changed it to red in the U.S? It seems odd to me.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:24pm

      And also what people don’t seem to understand because they were oh so busy with the so-called “Good-life” with all their wonderful toys, is that the U.S slowly ever so slowly changed to a Socialism around them. And the original green grasses of Capitalism stayed green grasses, and yet the viewpoint from Socialists began viewing traditional Americans as “weeds.”

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    • robert
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:26pm

      “Colin Powell: Occupy Wall Street Demonstrations ‘As American as Apple Pie’ ”

      I wonder why he didn’t say that about the Tea Party Rallies.

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:28pm

      Even an apple pie starts to stink if left out for days! Colin Powel shows what a FOOL he is .. thank God he didn’t decide to run for President .. we don‘t need anymore progressive RINO’s in the race!

      TEA!

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:30pm

      Yes I’m afraid you really screwed over your children because you were not being watchful for the creeping thing. And unless you work very hard to fix it, then God is going to have to bring the heat down, and there may be untold collateral damage.

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:30pm

      It is very simple give them your money!
      Everyone of these “1%ers” want to give away my money not theirs. Do it man give everything away so you only have, let us say, $60,000 a year. Come on big mouth do it. Show us what a real man can do! No money to your kids, no slush fund, no hiding it in a stock portfolio. Just $60,000 a year and you pay for everything. Put your money where your mouth is, under your back pocket!

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:34pm

      robert,
      How long are you going to wonder? How long are you going to meander around in the wilderness? Are you going to wonder all the way to the gas-chambers, or all the way into getting hit by a death ray?

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    • BSdetector
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:35pm

      PASSIONFORCHRIST, He isn‘t being asked because he’s already been exposed as a Progressive long ago and we KNOW he supports everything you listed there.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:38pm

      Awe gee, I wonder why that guy is walking me to a large pit with a gun to my back, but he isn’t doing it to the occupiers?

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    • SavingtheRepublic.com
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:42pm

      ~^~v~~^~~v~^~
      Yea there was a time so many really liked Powell and there was talk of supporting him for a POTUS run… how wrong we all were!

      This occupy LIE is nothing like being “as American as Apple Pie”. To make such a statement based on Powells logic would then mean shootings, illegal drug use, sexual abuse, vandalism, destruction of property, urinating and defecating in public would also be considered ‘as American as Apple Pie” too! These things are all the norms of the occupy movement, its not isolated, the headlines are the same from coast to coast. Its baffling he would make such a statement KNOWING this but then again that is the Powell we all now know… a RINO and turncoat in the eyes of many. What the TEA party and conservatives have been doing is as American as Apple Pie not occupy. Occupy is a representation of darkness, evil, the devils hands busy manipulating the weak minded through his LEGION. Make no mistake about it occupy is not as American as Apple Pie no, it is an example of evil and darkness. http://SavingtheRepublic.com

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    • lapua338shooter
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:42pm

      I had a lot of respect for that man right up until I read his comments from the interview. Now, I have to consider him a commie rat marxist as well. It seems to me the obaminator’s claws run deeper than I originally thought. If he can get Powell, he can get the military and then….. We the prople have a real problem.
      It’s gonna be a tough go at it, I say…

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    • Robert999
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:52pm

      @PASSIONFORCHRIST

      Sometimes even Christianity can’t help if the people are already too corrupt. Rome became Christian, then it fell.

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    • coindexter
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:59pm

      hey PowPow…there is NOTHING American about a bunch of closet communists attempting to take down the US and her capitalist economy. you sir are not American in your heart or your thoughts… Happy 11-11-11

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    • Rajabear1
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 2:01pm

      @robert said:
      “Colin Powell: Occupy Wall Street Demonstrations ‘As American as Apple Pie’ ”

      I wonder why he didn’t say that about the Tea Party Rallies.

      Robert, you silly boy, it‘s because we’re the racist! That whole constitution thing, freedom and liberty gibberish and who can forget that crazy zany love of the Country and her founders?
      When you want to institute total government control, well, then you have something! He’ll be behind you 110%!
      Really, are we shocked? The republican establishment wrapped their arms around this guy and pushed him to the top. Conservative America trusted him and believed in him–at one point, mulling over the idea of having him run as president. Low and behold, we found out he back tracked and lied about Iraq, like we didn’t see him at the UN. Never happened, don’t you know. And then the party that gave him respect, trust and the opportunities to rise to the top, he turned around and stabbed them in the back—primarily over race. It’s gone downhill from there. He’s betrayed the entire country as we watched the mask come off over the last 4 yrs to see who and what he really is. We should be scared if the top brass shares his thoughts on OWS. We may be in a lot more trouble than we thought.

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    • In detroit
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 2:10pm

      Not just God but reality , poeple have just gone nuts only going to get worse also biblical

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    • Nehemiah6.3
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 2:12pm

      He is right, we in this country have a right to protest. We have the right to assemble. The occupy wall street people are an outward manifestation of a sickness that is in the people of this country and the world. This sickness is called “Pride” “Selfishness” and a determination to kick against the ******. Meaning God has given all of us the ability to see between right and wrong. When we choose wrong so many times, the light that God has given us to see right and wrong diminishes until it goes completely dark.

      In other words, when you reject the truth you are walking further from the truth. The further you get from truth, the harder it is to recognize it. These protesters and everyone who approves of there philosophy have walked away from the truth and now cannot recognize it.

      In order to see the truth you must see things as they really are, as they have always been, and how they will be. It all starts with turning your heart to God. And not the God who wants to hurt others.

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    • Dutchracer
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 2:12pm

      That type of Apple Pie! YOU EAT IT, not me! I know what Rotten when I see and smell it Mr Powell…

      This man has one warped idea of what America is all about! Maybe he believes he is in France?

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    • Scottscobig
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 2:15pm

      Income inequality needs to be addressed by politicians?

      Yeah, great, let‘s pay a hamburger flipper the same as some wall street guy who’s in charge of $millions in assets. Brain surgeon/ditch digger, same diff. Education, risk, brains, all overrated. Rocket scientist? Five bucks an hour; done deal.

      Colon (my spelling) Powell speaks for the rest of the lightweight republicans like Romney, whom we‘ll probably elect and we’ll get what we deserve: the continued torture and eventual death of liberty.

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    • Red Meat
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 2:36pm

      Powell has always been an affirmative action political hack failure.

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    • Marci
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 2:49pm

      Another defector of true American values. It’s pathetic. Does he have any common sense left? The OWS people are demanding that everyone be HANDED the earnings of those who do better. They are so short-sighted they think this will work. As for “as American as apple pie”, not once did I hear him say that about the Tea Party or 8-28.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 3:16pm

      Apparantly Mr. Powell is not as American as apple pie if he believes that these particular protesters are upstanding citizens..what was his take on the real American protests and rallies by the Tea Party folks? Would he consider them just as American as OWS? I somehow doubt it. Yet again he rears his head when its conveinant to do so.

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    • My Two Cents
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 3:21pm

      Apple pie sprinkled with fresh lice and served up with a side of tuberculosis.

      Eat up General Powell.

      MMMMM….MMMMM….MMMMM

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 3:26pm

      Maybe he should change his name to COLON Powell

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    • ltoney65
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 3:27pm

      what did you expect, he supports Obama to be re-elected. He may have served his country, but now has no respect for it. Anyone who supports this imposter, certainly has not done there home work.
      Social security number Obama is using is 043-68-4425 (his current SSN) belongs to Jean Paul Lidwig. He was born in France 1890, came to the U.S. in 1934. He was assigned SSN 042-68-4425 on or about March 1977. He lived most of hiis life in Connecticut This is why his SSN starts with 042 reserved only for Connecticut residents. Obama never lived or worked in that state. No reason for him to have that SSN. NONE BEST PART–Ludwig spent the final 5 months in Hawaii where he died. Coveniently, Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Payne Durham, worked part time in the Probate Office in the Honolulu Hawaii Courthouse and therefore had access to the SSN of deceased individual. The Social Security office there were never imformed of Ludwig’s death because he never received SS benifits. There were no benefits to stop and therefore no questions were ever raised. The suspicion of course, is that Durham knowing her grandson was not a U. S. citizan, either because he was born in Kenya or became a citizan of Indonesia upon adoption by Lolo Soetoro. She simply scoured the probate records until she found someone who died who was not receiving SS benefits, and selected Mr. Ludwig’s Connecticut SSN for Obama. Don’t take my word for it, Do your homework please.

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    • jkjk
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 3:28pm

      What the hell happened to this guy? I guess the big stupid stick smacked him. These loser drug addict lost cause hippie dic#s have no reason to be protesting anything. I have yet to see one rat make any sense while explaining why they’re there. Anyone who supports these losers is an idiot.

      F- OBAMA Guess whose on vacation again with his tranny wife on our tax dollar. I guess it‘s easy to blame republicans on how they don’t care about job creation. Anyone who voted for this idiot should be slapped 15 times by a dirty diaper.

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    • artistskeptic
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 3:47pm

      Just wondering whether it is dementia of just communism that has eliminate Powell’s ability for rational thought.

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    • NHwinter
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 4:06pm

      I’m sorry, all these elite people praising the OWS have lost all sense of reality. They follow the party line and make fools of themselves. Absolute fools. Evidence flys in the face of their words of praise.

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 4:19pm

      I’m amazed over how shocked so many are.. Many of you people just don’t get it.. The liberals were right about one thing.. There are at least two Americas. One desiring to be under the Constitution of the United States of America and the other desiring some mix of Marxist/Statist rule. Once again I’m just so shocked over the failure of so many of my conservative colleagues to understand the state of affairs we are currently in. That’s why I believe it is time begin considering a mutual agreed to split.. There’s no reason to remain one Nation when we are so diverse in thought/morals/opinions/culture/etc. We are in essence begging for a Dictator if we don’t begin to address our current situation.

      How many of you believe that there’s any hope for a future America resembling anything like our past? I just don’t get the reluctance to accept the situation we are in and to begin to deal with it.

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    • Spqr1
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 4:23pm

      Satan? The last time people engaged in that kind of intellectual drop-out mode we called it the DARK AGES! People like you think the Age of Reason happened to someone else….

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    • AOL_REFUGEE
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 4:24pm

      I think Colon Blow Powell has taken leave of his senses.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 4:47pm

      Powell’s an a-hole of the first magnitude. In the past (prior to 1964) when we’ve marched up and down, we’ve always marched for freedom. The leftists in the 60′s/70′s and the reprobates now are marching for marxism, communism, and anti-Americanism. Quite different things. Contrast these low-lifes; raping, drugging, destroying, burning, killing, dying from overdoses, trashing, attacking, disparaging Christians, Jews and pro-Americans, contrast that with the modest pro-America Tea Party gatherings/rallies. These miserable miscreants don’t deserve life let alone liberty and the pursuit of happeness, because all three are wasted on them.

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    • TH30PH1LUS
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 4:56pm

      Colin Powell,

      What exactly is your definition of “American”? ANYTHING that happens in America? Murder and rape happen in America. Does that make murder & rape as “American as apple pie”?

      It’s not the fact that people are protesting – it’s the COMMUNIST movement behind it. Listen to their own words calling out for violence, for the overthrow of the Constitution. Something YOU took an oath to defend, Colin.

      Your words reek of the political infection that has settled into most who swim in the murky waters of D.C.

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    • 1389AD
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 5:10pm

      American as apple pie?

      Since when is it Constitutionally protected speech to camp without permission on property that one does not own?

      To masturbate or fornicate in public?

      To block traffic and interfere with neighboring businesses?

      To make loud noises day and night?

      To emit an intolerable stench?

      To pile huge mountains of trash and garbage?

      To poop and pee on the lawn and in the street?

      To harbor and spread communicable diseases?

      http://1389blog.com/2011/11/11/what-happens-in-occupy-does-not-stay-in-occupy/

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    • robert
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 5:15pm

      Techengineer
      “There’s no logical reason to keep the Union together because we are obviously more different than many nations are.. As different as night is from day. If we don’t we are fastly approaching a time of blood shed.”

      I agree. Multiculturalism is an abysmal failure. There is no greater lie than, “Diversity is our strength.”
      Every tribe in the US is for themselves and only themselves, and their efforts are directed toward gaining dominance and control for their tribal brothers and sisters.

      The importation of large numbers of third world emigres and refugees….partly…..was a plan by the self-appointed elites both here and Europe to create a huge superstate in order to gain more wealth and power via tax units and consumers. The corporations and the politicos both are to blame.

      Now that the economy is tanking, hands are being wrung in worry over dwindling treasuries that are growing less and less able to finance the social nets most of these third worlders rely on.

      Cheap labor and additional tax units turn into quite a troublesome burden to any country that has a problem meeting its budget every year without severe austerity measures.

      The smart thing would be to carve the country up into ethnic/religious/political enclaves peacefully. If that isn’t done, it will be done violently in Civil War II.

      But we ALL know nothing is ever changed peacefully.

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 6:14pm

      robert: ” Every tribe in the US is for themselves and only themselves, and their efforts are directed toward gaining dominance and control for their tribal brothers and sisters.”

      Except whites. It’s truly amazing to observe the almost self hatred or in most cases the outright denial of our race. We are truly a minority on this planet but almost 8 out of 10 whites are practically ashamed to even acknowledge our people as a race. You and I both know that it is the result of decades of propaganda aimed against us but even though you probably acknowledge that you refuse to acknowledge who is behind it… Why? It’s truly black and white. Very simple to prove and very obvious. You know there’s a problem but you want to act as if it is just a random event? Where is this propaganda originating and why? Why don’t you want to acknowledge the prime source of all of our ills? Religious reasons?

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    • rangerp
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 8:06pm

      Yea, and Turn His Back Powell is as American as fried chicken and watermelon. He slammed the race card down so hard last election, he broke the table

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 8:21pm

      Techengineer11,

      Your racism aside, advocating for the dissolution of the Union is as anti-American as you can get. Read the Federalist papers for a clue. If you come back and state that you have, then you lie or you never agreed with our founding principles.

      The problem for you is 90% of the commentors here wouldn’t want to live in your white-separatist nation. You’d only have yor Prog buddies to hang with you, all busy tring to legislate each other’s thoughts and morality. Take off the hood, Grand Wizard, and look at those with whom you stand.

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 9:00pm

      WOW! Now we’re sure of who the REAL Colin Powell is. Took this stupid statement to confirm it.

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    • Espada
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 9:05pm

      Satan, my A$$… affirmative action at work in the US Military. this jerk racist was jumped up every time the minimum time came up for promotion, and then assigned Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff over 54 more qualified, more senior officers.

      Affirmative action manifested.

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 10:54pm

      Jaycen: I tried to respond… No luck.

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    • stablepar
      Posted on November 12, 2011 at 12:37am

      i am more interested in what colon thinks about herman cain

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on November 12, 2011 at 7:34am

      The General has turned into a real kook. Either that or he hid it well for a long time.
      My beef with him is, if it weren’t for his speech at the U.N., we would never have gone into that big mistake called Iraq.

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    • junkmaninohio
      Posted on November 12, 2011 at 10:31am

      How about all the hatred displayed against the Jews Mr. Powell?

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on November 12, 2011 at 11:20am

      Well, they’re not actually serving Apple Pie in the pokey, this week, General.

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    • sriser1
      Posted on November 12, 2011 at 11:38am

      Ditto

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    • RJO
      Posted on November 12, 2011 at 1:02pm

      This may sound tacky – butt – it fits.

      This man prefers to have his first named pronounced “colon.” OK….fine. It only highlights what credibility he has – none.

      As irrelevant as ever.

      Why doesn’t good old Piers investigate the David Axelrod connection to the attempted electronic lynching of Herman Cain? You know Axelrod Mr. Morgan – the man who helped assassinate the characters of two politicians (one a fellow Dumbocrat and the other the Republican nominee for Blowbama’s Senate run in Illinois. His slimy fingerprints are all over this character assassination attempt!!

      If good old Piers even came close to doing an investigative story on THAT – he would be handed his head by CNN along with the Pink Slip. The American public is VERY MUCH aware of the BIAS that runs DEEP in so called “mainstream media.” Whatever credibility they had before the Cain effort (which wasn’t much) has evaporated.

      Journalistic prostitutes for the hard-left…….

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    • pavepaws
      Posted on November 12, 2011 at 9:11pm

      Suffering from Harry Belafonteism.

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    • G.W. Dobbs
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:13am

      Colin Powell is IN ERROR on the topic of the “Protests”. NO “Apple Pie” group in America has ever been bought and paid for by COMMUNISTS before and have been mocking God and our Nation in this manner.

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  • nelbert
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:01pm

    “Powell said the biggest concern is the income gap, which needs to be addressed politically.”

    So he’s in favor of redistributing wealth. Scratch Powell off the list.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:12pm

      And what list was he on?

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:12pm

      I think Powell is much wealthier than me. Do u think he will give me his money to close this gap ? No he wont. Just another windbag, all these rich supporters could solve thes injustices with a pen and a checkbook…. They wont.

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    • richauthor
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:14pm

      When he was acting as a general, I don‘t remember him doing anything or even saying anything about the disparity between a general’s pay and a PFC’s pay.

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    • Docrow
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:47pm

      Margaret Thatcher said it best…………….

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okHGCz6xxiw

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    • Shasta
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 4:37pm

      @Docrow, that was a great link. We could use a leader like that.

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  • GhostOfJefferson
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:01pm

    I’ve held for years that this man is a living, breathing example of The Dilbert Principle (you promote incompetent idiots into management to keep them from getting in the way of productive people). This is not an opinion that I alone have held for years, just watch Mars Attacks and their caricature of the “man”. If you suck up long enough, great things are bound to happen (to paraphrase the movie).

    I wasn’t aware that American as apple pie meant rapes, violence, screaming curse words at passers by and rioting. Huh, who knew?

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 2:25pm

      Powell was always a politician first. During the gulf war it was as if Powell was Bradley and schwartzkopf was Patton. He was whatever he needed to be when he needed to be it. And yes, total hypocrite as well. Didn‘t trumpet tea party rallies or say maybe shay’s rebellion for example. Nope. And to try and equate opposition to say king george to a communist revolution is proof the man is a hack.

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    • saranda
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 3:22pm

      I think you mean the Peter Principle where people get promoted to their level of incompetence. Did Dilbert steal that one? I am always amazed that Dilbert has an audience.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 3:43pm

      @Sandra

      No, the Dilbert principle is opposite of the Peter principle. With the later, you’re promoted up to the max of your ability, but not further.

      Dilbert is great fun, of course it has an audience.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 6:14pm

      BGoJ . . . Actually the Peter Principle says that you are promoted beyond your capabilities to a place where you are no longer competent. Relax, you don’t have to worry about it. You passed that long ago.

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    • Your Sensie
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 12:23am

      Do you like my new avatar? I am feeling more like a man these days. It’s liberating to be able to “feel” like a man or woman at a moments notice.

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  • AZ Aviator
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:00pm

    Good Lord, Powell. You, sir, are an idiot. THEY MEAN TO “TRANSFORM” US. Which means THEY WANT TO BRING US DOWN.

    So tired of this rampant stupidity. It’s right before your eyes, dolt.

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    • Parnelli
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:05pm

      Very disappointing. And to think I would have supported this closet lefty for President. Thank you Jesus for opening my eyes. Norman Swartzkoff must have had a time with this guy.

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:29pm

      I would love to know what, if anything, he said about those of us in the TEA Party .. think I will try to find out .. anyone know?

      TEA!

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:33pm

      YET he says this about the TEA Party??? What a FOOL! TOOL! God help us!

      “Colin Powell: Sarah Palin, Tea Party lack specifics ”

      http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/11/colin-powell-sarah-palin-tea-party-/1

      What “specifics” can these OWS anarchists site .. except take from them and give to me????

      Powell .. go AWAY!

      TEA!

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 12:49pm

      The Worm turns! It hasn’t been that many years ago the whole country was calling for Colin Powell to run for President. I think he lived his earlier life as a conservative (of sorts) but has everything about him changed. He’s a complete disappointment to me. Shows you, many can be bought. Judas sold his soul for a few coins. Too many follow Judas.

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  • beverlee
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:00pm

    May they protest on his street.

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  • Santa Cruz Kid
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:59pm

    Colin is a colon.

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  • libertytreecaretaker
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:59pm

    Just another example of a moderate republican! If we elect Mitt do you think there will be a different outcome? Insanity!

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:18pm

      Of course Mitt is different from Colin Powell. Interesting article in WSJ today on Romney. His “big shift” from “moderate” to “conservative” was over the course of 10 months in 2005. Why? Plans for GOP nomination in 2008? A real “eye opening”? I don’t know. I like to think that those who come over to my way of thinking do so because I am right and because truth wins out over error in a fair contest.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:26pm

      McCain is a moderate. Obama did not support him. He supported the liberal Obama. So is Powell really a moderate or a RINO. He might claim to be so but it is a lie.

      In the new match up watch Powell support the half black Liberal Obama over the all back, conservative Cain. That should tell you everything you need to know about the hollow man Powell.

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    • libertytreecaretaker
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:28pm

      Thats exactly what he wants you to think to pull the lever for him. Have you ever know any conservative that would think a of big gov. answer to any problem(IE Romney Care) He still beleives that big government has a roll, we can’t give him a Federal size check book! He is the only canadite that just wants to tweek the current tax code. You can do want ever you want to the current code but it is still going to be a massive gov. bueracracy!

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    • lukerw
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:38pm

      They are all PROGRESSIVES… holding a Blind Eye to the Constitution; loving Socialism… just as the Bush’s & Clinton’s!

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 3:06pm

      I don’t think we need to get others to deal with the problem of class
      warfare. I THINK MAYBE SOMEONE OUGHT TO GO OFFER THESE
      FOOLS A JOB, AND SEE JUST HOW FAST THEY ARE TURNED DOWN.
      THEY DON’T WANT A JOB TO WORK AND NARROW THE GAP, THIS
      IS NOT WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. THESE PEOPLE WANT WHAT “WE”
      HAVE WORKED FOR, WORK WOULD SCARE THIS GROUP TO DEATH.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:59pm

    His “apple pie”… is made by a little girl in a Barn Yard!

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  • deberlin
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:58pm

    Commie!!!

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  • jollylama
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:57pm

    Descending Colin/Colon.. His first name is spelled different but means the same.

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  • hi
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:57pm

    Colin Powell was moved ahead because of “quota.” so, of course he does t support rewards by merit.

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  • In detroit
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:57pm

    Used to love and respect this man , he endorced dumbo now he,s just another idiot

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:57pm

    Colin ‘I Can’t Wait to Campaign for Obama’ Powell, thinks obama’s riot movement is just swell.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:23pm

      Make’s you wonder about Mr Powell. Either he can‘t see Obama’s operatives leading the movement or he is racist & does not care.

      As a former military veteran you would think he would know something about G2. Maybe he sees the influence of Axelrod & he doesn’t care, because he is not moderate (that was lie) he is a creaming lib & a racist. McCain is a moderate. Obama did not support him. He supported the liberal. In the new match up watch Powell support the half black Liberal Obama over the all back, conservative Cain. That should tell you everything you need to know about the hollow man Powell.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:56pm

    Mr Powell, I have respected you for some time, now though I have to wonder just which side you are on; the OWS is a band of radicals, revolutionaries, socialists, communists and race haters by their own testimonies…are you out of touch or preparing to turn coats?

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  • libertytreecaretaker
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:56pm

    Colin has lost his frickin mind!

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:37pm

      OBVIOUSLY!

      Good observation!

      TEA!

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  • ozchambers
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:55pm

    Spoken like a true hero of the Republican establishment class.

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    • DavidZion
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:01pm

      I knew this guy wasn’t who people thought he was when he wanted the Secretary of State job.

      It was Mr Powell that said no when we had a chance to take out Sadam Hussein in the first gulf war.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:27pm

      DavidZion

      I knew this guy wasn’t who people thought he was when he wanted the Secretary of State job.
      _______________________________________________________________________________

      Now that is a interesting observation. That is perceptive.

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    • ccfonten
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 2:02pm

      No, he is not, fool

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  • Steve
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:54pm

    A prime example as to just out of touch these people really are.

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    • the_zazzy
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:00pm

      And you, Colin Powell, are as conservative as John McCain! How the hell did you con us for so long to believe you were on the right??

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:24pm

      @ The_zazzy I don’t think that Powell ever managed to “con” anyone — people were “self-conned“ by the idea that a guy in the military who is registered as a Republican would be ”conservative.” Group identity. Lables. Those are tools for the construction of Error.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 4:34pm

      Yep, Chuck, we have to remember that 20% of the people in the military are not conservatives.

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  • don young
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:53pm

    This shows that these morons love the violance of these protesters not the kind of apple pie people i like or that america likes.

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  • doublezero12
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:53pm

    Is he still around? His opinion is irrelevant after supporting Obama.

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  • nohussein
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:53pm

    What do you expect from a hussein supporter.

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  • spudwhite
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:53pm

    HA-HA! This closet black nationalist/communist was once the great black hope of many Republicans to be their choice for president. Now the great black hope is Cain. He’s no bad guy, but isn’t presidential either.
    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/11/comeback_kid_gingrich_ties_romney_for_second_in_cbs_poll.html

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  • youngblood1
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:52pm

    I would like to thank Gen Powell for his service to our nation. That being said where was your support for the Tea Party Sir? You didnt have to agree with them. However you could of atleast showed them some respect.

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  • smithclar3nc3
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:52pm

    To all you conservatives that thought Powell who make a great first black president…..
    Well there you go

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:03pm

      You’re absolutely right.. All of these so called conservatives were literally crying for Powell to be President 10 years ago.. Shows you how sick and messed up their judgement is.

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    • eyestoseeearstohear
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:26pm

      Yep!

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 2:12pm

      It shows how subversive Powell was for decades…..People need to truely vet their candidates remember no one’s perfect. But do some research if they have a political back ground track their voting records,look at whom they surround themselves with and make the call.

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  • smithclar3nc3
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:50pm

    huh????
    I guess Powell has this tune on his Ipod as well
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/grammy-nominated-singers-violent-occupy-anthem-%e2%80%98strung-up-you%e2%80%99ll-bleed%e2%80%99-your-blood-is-our-paint/

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  • Elena2010
    Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:50pm

    The way to address the wealth gap is thru the free market. For too long our gov’t has stood in the way or tried to redistribute the wealth. Taking fm one and giving to another is not a way to fix the problem. In the end, you end up w/two problems — bullies in control and poor that remain poor.

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    • nelbert
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:58pm

      Exactly. My jaw dropped when I read that Powell thinks the income gap needs to be addressed “politically.” Is that his way of pushing for redistribution? Time to write him off as one of “them.”

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    • JRook
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:01pm

      Certainly appreciate the MBA 101 quote. But if this country and politicians on both side of the isle really believed that they would not approve any trade agreements that did not mandate the establishment and operation of a free market in the other country. This would include full information to all segments of the market, including labor and the ability of labor to participate in the prosperity of those countries. The US ultimately suffers from many of these so called free trade agreements because the initial spending to trade associated with buying machinery from us dwindles as the exploited labor force is unable to afford US goods. And when you get to MBA 202 you’ll probably learn something about Social Utility, although it is usually quickly forgotten.

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 1:02pm

      @Elena2010
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:50pm
      ‘The way to address the wealth gap is thru the free market.’
      *********************
      I agree with you, if everyone started out on an equal footing. By that I don’t mean equal IQ, I mean equally good education, and equal health protection. And provided that there were laws in place to prevent the exploitation of employees, the pollution of the environment, and the transfer of jobs to another country where employers don’t need to worry about pay, safety, or pollution.

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    • Spqr1
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 4:35pm

      The totally “free” market turns most people into peons. It’s called Feudalism, or Serfdom.

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