ABC's new logo: Now Colin Powell free!

Major thanks to Stogie at Saber Point for designing my new logo. It reminds me so much of the old one but much bolder. Now I can make good on my promise to rid my blog of turncoat Colin Powell and add the much requested Walter Williams.

Colin Powell gets a clue!

(h/t The Other McCain, via The Washington Times)

"I'm concerned at the number of programs that are being presented, the bills associated with these programs and the additional government that will be needed to execute them," Mr. Powell said in an excerpt of an interview with CNN's John King, released by the network Friday morning.

Memo to Colin: That’s what you get when you put the color of someone’s skin over the content of his character.

If all Barack Obama had to do for the next four years was to be black, I would have voted for him too. Regardless of what color the president is, it is the polices he is pushing that matters most. Sadly, Powell is waking up to this simple fact way too late.

Powell can now add himself to the list of disillusioned (read duped) Republicans. For the life of me, I cannot understand how any of them could have been fooled. All throughout the campaign, all of Obama’s solutions came with price tags and more government. Not once did he offer a free market solution to anything. What did they think, all of this Hope and Change was going to be for free?

At any rate, I hope Powell will have the good enough sense to shut up from now on when someone asks him about what to do with the Republican Party. If he doesn’t, he is going to have to hear a big fat I TOLD YOU SO, from every corner of the right.

PS. Powell is still coming off my logo! I am working on a new and bigger one and toying with changing the layout of my blog.

Time to take Colin Powell off my logo!

Today on Face The Nation, Colin Powell tells us he is still a Republican but;

• He voted for Barak Obama and Jimmy Carter.
• He listens to statistics quoted by Arlen Specter.
• He knocks Rush Limbaugh.
• He knocks Dick Cheney.
• Believes Jack Kemp was for “spreading the wealth”.
• Believes Gitmo should be closed to please other nations.
• Favors bringing Gitmo prisoners to the US.
• Believes the American people want bigger government.

Yeah, sure Colin, you’re a Republican, just like I am a white guy! Sorry Colin, but you are coming off my logo, because you’re wrong! Wrong about how to rebuild the party, wrong about Rush Limbaugh, wrong about Gitmo, wrong about Obama and wrong about everything a conservative believes in.

OK faithful readers, which black conservative would you like to see replace Powell in my logo?

Colin Powell: Transformation Complete

Colin Powell has come a long way from the days when he gave authoritative presentations of Desert Storm. Back then Powell was a no nonsense, facts and figures, black conservative general. He was the type of black conservative that liberals would have had a very hard time smearing. He could have easily grabbed the GOP nomination and perhaps became the first Black president almost 20 years before Obama. He could have inspired a generation of young black conservatives. My how things have changed.

Today Colin Powell is parroting empty leftwing talking points to the GOP on how to make themselves into the Democrat Lite Party. He hits on all the standard "problems" that the Democrats keep telling the GOP they have to change; Rush and Coulter are mean and nasty, McCain and Palin are too polarizing, people want big government, and of course the GOP needs to move to the center. Never mind that the GOP really did move to the left with the nomination of John McCain and Powell still voted for Obama!

I don't really fault Powell for voting for Obama. I imagine that any black man at Powell's age (conservative or not) must have had a real and understandable yearning to see the first black president of the United States in their lifetime. What I do fault Powell for is not having the balls to be up front about it. Back in 2003 Powell said he remained "a strong proponent of affirmative action." Yet, we are to believe that a strong proponent of affirmative action, would pass up voting for the first black president if all things were equal. Methinks not!

I think Powell's move to the left has more to do with his own personal desire to be included, than the GOP needing to be more inclusive. Being a black conservative is not an easy thing to do. I know all too well how the party of "tolerance & inclusiveness" morphs into hyper bigots when dealing with black conservatives. I also know how fellow blacks are even more vitriolic to brothers or sisters who dares to wonder off the liberal plantation. As bad as that is for someone like me, it is exponentially worse for those black conservatives living in the public eye. For black conservatives who are public figures, they need skin like tank armor. Perhaps, after all these years, Powell's armor has just gotten a little too heavy to carry.