He can't be so lame. Obama welcomed his support.
Also, the fact that he is "conservative," is irrelevant. Obama wants bi-partisam support, or so he says. (In any event, Powell is more accurately described as a moderate.)
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Last year when Colin Powell endorse Obama for the presidental, Dems did cart wheels in joy. I wonder what they think about his advice to Obama now?
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell cautioned President Obama to slow down his ambitious agenda, out of concern for spiraling budget deficits.
Obama is hoping to pass legislation that would overhaul the health care system and implement a cap-and-trade energy program -- in the face of a recession and significant budget deficits.
"I think one of the cautions that has to be given to the president — and I've talked to some of his people about this — is that you can't have so many things on the table that you can't absorb it all. And we can't pay for it all," Powell said on CNN's "State of the Union."
"I think the president, as he moves forward with his initiatives, has to start really taking a very, very hard look at what the cost of all this is," Powell said. "And how much additional bureaucracy and will it be effective bureaucracy be needed to make all of this happen."
More Powell: "I never would have believed that we would have budgets that are running into the multi-trillions of dollars, and we are amassing a huge, huge national debt that, if we don't pay for in our lifetime, our kids and grandkids and great grandchildren will have to pay for it."
Powell said he met with Obama "not too long ago" and said he holds a "very good" relationship with the president. Powell added that he hasn't decided whether he will be supporting Obama for re-election in 2012.
Powell gives Obama advice. What a scandal.
Powell only voted for Obama because he was black so I'll guess that Obama will listen to Powell because he is black, otherwise what the point? Despite Rush and Dick's assertion, Powell is still a conservative and I would think that he would counsel Obama on taking things slow but the I watched the State of the Union interview. Powell still praised Obama is his efforts to build service corps or as Michelle Bachman would describe "redeucation camps"
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He can't be so lame. Obama welcomed his support.
Also, the fact that he is "conservative," is irrelevant. Obama wants bi-partisam support, or so he says. (In any event, Powell is more accurately described as a moderate.)
-- Modified on 7/6/2009 4:37:54 AM
He jumped the shark a long time ago. No sense bringing him up anymore.
criticism. The taxpayers will pay for it. I don't see what is unclear about who is going to pay.
the current ones, who a percentage of which actually voted for Obama, or future taxpayers, none of which would have voted for him
The paying part is not so bad. It costs money to live , there is no way around it. When I pay for healthcare I want it to be for now and future healthcare and not to feed some capitalist's greed fixations for profits.
A percentage of Obama voters are already paying for costs passed along to them. Namely the failure to address rising healthcare costs and regulation of financial institutions....Continued failure to address these issues will lead to future taxpayers paying even more - either monetarily or with with a failing, broken system. There are going to be costs regardless. The only way to minimize those is to spend now, really...