Colin Powell -- American Badass

[Deckard]

On McCain's decision to call Obama a socialist because he wants to raise taxes on individuals and businesses making more than $250,000 a year:

"Taxes are always a redistribution of money. Most of the taxes that are redistributed go back to those who pay it -- in roads and airports and hospitals and schools -- and taxes are necessary for the common good, and there's nothing wrong with examining what our tax structure is and who should be paying more, who should be paying less. And for us to say that makes you a socialist I think is an unfortunate characterization and is inaccurate"

On McCain's tactic of linking Obama to Bill Ayers:

It troubled me. We have two wars. We have economic problems, we have health problems. ... Those are the problems the American people want to hear about, not about Mr. Ayers, not about who's a Muslim and not a Muslim. Those kind of images going out on Al Jazeera are killing us around the world.

Also, from that video clip in the previous post, I thought his remark about the Muslim grave was spot on. Why the hell is this lost on so many Americans at the moment? And is it a coincidence that it benefits the neoconservative political establishment to have a population that sees Muslim == enemy?

What a contrast. Can you even imagine Sarah Palin using the phrase "intellectual vigor" without using it disparagingly?

Now sit back and wait for all the McCain/Palin supporters to dismiss this as just one black man supporting another.