Colin Powell: Obama Blew Away The Birthers

ORANGEBURG, S.C. -- 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.

Comments

[madrediterra]

11:58 AM on 05/13/2011

Former Army physician Terry Lakin - the birther who refused to deploy to Afghanistan because President Obama's orders were not legitimate is to be released from prison, "a homecoming event is planned Saturday at the Southwest Airlines baggage claim area of Baltimore Washington International Airport. " (Salon.com) Birthers are asking attendants to bring Welcome Home signs and, of course, money. Happy court martial, birther supreme.

[Charles Bryan]

11:32 AM on 05/13/2011

Blah blah blah

[fitley]

08:51 PM on 05/11/2011

So Colin was basically saying Mr. Trump is a fetid stool.

[Kelechi Amasike]

04:51 PM on 05/11/2011

But I still ask where have you been all along when the clowns were raising the issue and before the President's unfortunate act /conduct of showing them proof? You Sir as an elder statesman, I expected and looked forward to hearing you shut up the clowns with your response.

[caterpol]

03:05 PM on 05/11/2011

Am I the only one who thinks Powell is sincere?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember him saying that his biggest regret was getting us into Iraq with faulty intelligence.

It doesn't make him a saint, but at least he's humble enough to admit when he's wrong.

In any case, I view him as a good man playing for the wrong team.

[SunnyDaySam]

03:39 PM on 05/11/2011

I agree with you - I think Powell is sincere and I have heard him regret Iraq. Before his stint in the bush/GOP cabal, I thought Powell might well be our first black President. But like a good soldier, he followed orders and marched off the cliff.

[Irving Brown]

06:27 PM on 05/11/2011

Well said. Fanned.

[emstrem]

09:06 PM on 05/11/2011

he may be sincere idk? but he is still bought and paid for.

[wildwmmn]

09:16 PM on 05/11/2011

You know, like SunnyDay, I was all ready to vote for Powell for president. He disappointed me a bit in the Bush years, but I never grew to dislike him. I thought at the time that he made an honorable decision not to run - basically because I believed that he put his family above all else, because he knew what it would put them through. I admired him for that, even as I was disappointed that he didn't run. I like him still, I always have, I have felt that there is a deep well resevoir there. But I'm now not so sure that he would have had the stamina, the cold blue steel of confidence that Obama has running through his veins, to cope with all the enormous ugly and hateful fire that bombards him each and every day. For this alone, I will always be in awe of this president, Barack Obama.

[conservicide]

11:50 AM on 05/11/2011

Sorry powell, too little, too late.

You're responsible for helping the bushies kill thousands of soldiers and citizens of countries that had nothing to do with us. So where are those mobile chemical weapons labs now eh? As far as I'm concerned, colon owes the world a great debt that he'll never be able to make right.

[mary896]

11:42 AM on 05/11/2011

You mean AFTER BIRTHER, our main dude has done the humiliation of producing proof....something no other Prez has EVER had to do. Americans are idiots! Generally speaking, of course. And not including you, of course.

[tefoskey]

11:26 AM on 05/11/2011

Ha, that was funny!

[Cranmer1549]

10:55 AM on 05/11/2011

Both of Colin Powell's parents are Jamaican immigrants. I demand to see his long-form birth certificate!

[ALfarmgirl]

04:33 PM on 05/11/2011

That was satire, Right??

[Cranmer1549]

08:32 AM on 05/12/2011

I demand to see Gov. Nimrata Haley's birth certificate too! Piyush Jindal has already shown his, so he's off the hook.

(Since satire is the exposure of the vices or follies of an indiviudual or group with the aims of correcting that behavior, then yes I'm being satirical.)

[-me-]

10:54 AM on 05/11/2011

Colin Powell could have been president. then he lost all credibility telling lies about Iraq.what a shame.

[MrComments]

02:11 PM on 05/11/2011

Very true.

[jesthefaxman]

02:11 PM on 05/11/2011

And sitting on Richard Armitage's leak of Valerie Plame's name to the press.

[aonemandog]

10:40 AM on 05/11/2011

Colin Powell is irrelevant. He lost all credibility when he got up and deleivered his speech to the UN. He is just as guilty as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest of them for the war in Iraq and all of the deaths, trillions of dollars of debt accrued and destruction of the USA as a credible leader that followed.

[CubanVoice]

10:37 AM on 05/11/2011

Whether your opinions are for or against what I believe, I don't care to hear it, Mr. Powell. You sold your soul.

[vogonpoet42]

10:28 AM on 05/11/2011

Do you also believe that the earth is flat and that the moon landing was staged?

[aonemandog]

10:37 AM on 05/11/2011

The fact that you are allowed to print your twisted version of life does not make it true or real. Mr. Obama is only half black. Maybe for your peace of mind and those of the rest of the birthers, you could all focus your pea-sized brains on the white half of his origins. Maybe then you will be able to come to grips with the fact that yes, a non-white person has been elected president of this country.

[thegreenhornet]

08:17 AM on 05/11/2011

It would have been much more effective for him to have lead the curve instead of followed it. He is a person who despite his UN performance carries respect from both sides of the aisle.

[LeeCalif]

12:34 AM on 05/11/2011

Powell : The guy who l i ed in fron to f the UN and helped fool st oopid Americans into war.