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NEWS ABOUT: Colin Powell

Colin Powell stories: 43 news summaries

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 Bush a Winner as 
 Motivational Speaker 

Former president tells crowd he relied on 'the Almighty'

Oct 27, 09 7:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - George W. Bush commanded a 15,000-strong crowd at a motivational megashow in Dallas last night, flanked by signs reading "Achieve!" and "Motivate!" but not by the pyrotechnics that greeted other speakers—Secret Service said no. Bush told stories of both "great and not so... More »

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Dallas • Colin Powell • motivational speaker • George W. Bush

 Dubya's New Gig: 
 Motivational Guru 

George W. Bush headlines Texas 'mega show' with $19 tickets

Oct 21, 09 7:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - It sure ain't the G8: George W. Bush, nine months retired, is headlining a motivational speaking "mega show" in Fort Worth next week, which promises "more inspirational firepower than a stick of dynamite!" As the event's screaming website reveals, the former president is appearing alongside Colin... More »

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Rudy Giuliani • Fort Worth • Colin Powell • motivational speaker • George W. Bush

(Newser) - Colin Powell today honored the "gallant heroes" of United Flight 93 who fought back against their hijackers 8 years ago today. At a ceremony in Shanksville, Pa., where the plane went down, he likened them to the "citizen soldiers" who have fought for the US since its inception.... More »

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Pennsylvania • September 11 • Colin Powell • United Flight 93 • Shanksville • 9/11 attacks • Flight 93 National Memorial • terrorist attacks

 Powell: Gates, 
 Cops Both at Fault 

Both sides overreacted; people should 'cooperate' with police

Jul 29, 09 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Speaking to Larry King about Henry Louis Gates’ arrest, Colin Powell said he’d faced racial profiling “many times,” and suggested both the professor and the police were at fault in the incident, the Huffington Post reports. Gates “should have reflected on whether or not this was... More »

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police • Larry King • arrest • Colin Powell • racial profiling • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass.

poll

Cheney, Limbaugh Can't Touch Powell in Popularity

Ex-veep far less popular than his target for criticism

May 26, 09 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Dick Cheney got in a fight with Colin Powell, it looks like he was punching above his weight class. Cheney dismissed Powell’s views on the Republican Party’s direction, saying, “I didn’t think he was still a Republican”—a comment echoed by Rush Limbaugh. But... More »

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Dick Cheney • Rush Limbaugh • poll • Republican Party • Colin Powell

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

 Powell to Rush: 
 I'm Not Leaving GOP 

Rove blasts Obama; Joint Chiefs head backs gays in military

May 24, 09 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sorry, Rush Limbaugh: Colin Powell isn’t leaving the Republican Party. Striking back at critics, the general burnished his GOP credentials on Face the Nation today. “Rush will not get his wish, and Mr Cheney was misinformed” about Powell’s supposed exit from the party. Powell added that if... More »

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Iran • Dick Cheney • Rush Limbaugh • nuclear weapons • Colin Powell

(Newser) - The verbal war between Rush Limbaugh and Colin Powell has actually ticked up a notch. On his show today, Limbaugh resigned as “the titular head of the Republican Party” and sarcastically appointed Powell in his place, reports Media Matters. He blasted Powell as a representative of the “worn-out... More »

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Dick Cheney • politics • Rush Limbaugh • GOP • Colin Powell • Republicans

OPINION

Abortion 'Purity Test' Is New to Republicans

Not even 'conservative issue' for older generation: Goodman

May 15, 09 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Abortion has become “the purity test for remaining in the GOP’s inner circle,” writes Ellen Goodman in the Boston Globe: The Republican Party is shedding and shunning abortion-rights supporters it once called its own. But it wasn’t always that way—even “Mr. Conservative” Barry Goldwater... More »

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abortion • abortion rights • Arlen Specter • Barry Goldwater • pro life • pro choice • Colin Powell • conservatism • conservatives • Republicans

OPINION

Cheney Didn't Even Torture for Right Reasons

VP wanted to link Iraq and al-Qaeda, not stop next attack: Powell aide

May 15, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The interrogation methods Dick Cheney so highly touts were put in place in 2002 not to prevent another terror attack, a former aide to Colin Powell writes in the Washington Note, but to dig up an Iraq-al-Qaeda connection to justify going to war. And it was Cheney himself, “frightened”... More »

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Iraq • national security • Dick Cheney • torture • Abu Ghraib • Colin Powell • waterboarding • al-Qaeda • President Obama • Lawrence Wilkerson

OPINION

 Let's Put Cheney Out to Pasture 

VP is a veritable font of nonsense

May 12, 09 9:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Isn’t it time we sent Dick Cheney back to Wyoming, found him a home “where the buffalo roam and there’s always room for one more crazy old coot down at the general store?” Eugene Robinson asks in the Washington Post. It’s no wonder the TV networks... More »

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Dick Cheney • torture • Rush Limbaugh • Gene Robinson • Wyoming • Colin Powell • harsh interrogation

(Newser) - Saddam Hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction, but America made such a strong case that even the Iraqi leader himself had doubts, the Washington Post reports. Saddam, apparently in awe of US intelligence, asked his top commanders if the nation had stashes even he didn't know about. So says... More »

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Saddam Hussein • Russia • CIA • Vladimir Putin • Colin Powell • weapons of mass destruction • Iraq war • invasion • Charles Duelfer

OPINION

 Bush Can Teach 
 Obama What 
 Not to Do: 
 Woodward 

Woodward has seen all the mistakes and lived to tell about it

Jan 15, 09 9:49 AM CST
(Newser) - George W. Bush’s presidency could teach Barack Obama many lessons—about what not to do. Bob Woodward lays out 10 of them in today’s Washington Post:
  • "Presidents need to draw people out and make sure bad news makes it to the Oval Office": Bush
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Iraq • Bush administration • Dick Cheney • Donald Rumsfeld • Condoleezza Rice • Bob Woodward • Bush legacy • Colin Powell • George W. Bush

Sunday Morning Shows: 
Parade of the White Dudes

Morning talk doesn't show as much diversity as the nation does

Dec 14, 08 1:00 PM CST
(Newser) - As women and minorities increasingly head up the US government, Face the Nation isn't showing a very accurate sample of the nation's faces anymore, and This Week is looking more like Last Century. Across the Sunday morning political shows, 80% of the guests are white, and 80% are men,... More »

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Condoleezza Rice • Fox News • talk show • Colin Powell • Meet the Press • racial diversity • white men • Sunday Morning • Face the Nation • This Week

Powell: Palin, Limbaugh
Killing GOP

Party needs to embrace minorities and stop 'shouting at the world'

Dec 12, 08 4:45 AM CST
(Newser) - The GOP needs to listen more to minorities and less to loudmouths like Rush Limbaugh and polarizing figures like Sarah Palin if it's going to have a future, Colin Powell tells CNN. Powell, who endorsed Barack Obama but still considers himself a Republican, said the party's efforts to win votes... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • GOP • Republican Party • Colin Powell • Sarah Palin

ANALYSIS

They've Begged Off Obama List (But So Did Hillary)

Use a pencil in crossing Powell, McCaskill, Pritzker, others off administration watch list

Dec 1, 08 3:44 PM CST
(Newser) - There is a sizable list of qualified candidates who have expressed no interest in Obama cabinet positions—for now. Noting in the Washington Post that Hillary Clinton once demurred, too, Al Kamen takes a look at a few pols who’ve said no, or haven’t been “approached.... More »

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Barack Obama • Olympia Snowe • Colin Powell • Susan Collins • President Obama • Cabinet secretary • Obama Cabinet • John Brennan • Al Kamen

ANALYSIS

'Realist' Has Obama's Ear on Foreign Policy

Scowcroft, adviser to Bush I, will likely see protégés in key posts

Nov 24, 08 9:26 AM CST
(Newser) - Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to the first President Bush and shunned by the second over Iraq, is likely to exercise serious foreign-policy influence in Barack Obama’s administration, the Wall Street Journal reports. Scowcroft, known for a non-ideological foreign-policy philosophy, counts among his protégés a number of... More »

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Robert Gates • George HW Bush • foreign policy • Colin Powell • realism • George W. Bush • Obama administration • Brent Scowcroft • President Obama

Powell Will 
Pass on 
Cabinet Post 

I'll step aside for
new leaders, former State chief says

Nov 5, 08 1:22 PM CST
(Newser) - Colin Powell doesn’t want a job in Barack Obama’s “historic” administration, preferring instead to see a new generation of leaders. “Why? I've done it,” Powell told the Wall Street Journal today in Hong Kong. The Bush-era secretary of State, who endorsed Obama last month, also... More »

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Barack Obama • Hong Kong • trade • Colin Powell • Election 2008 • Obama administration • President Obama

 Stevens' Fate in Jury's Hands 

Deliberations to begin Wednesday

Oct 21, 08 10:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - The jury in the corruption trial of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens will begin deliberating tomorrow, the Anchorage Daily News reports. Prosecutors urged the jury to use common sense to conclude that $250,000 in gifts received by the powerful senator were bribes. His defense counsel told jurors that evidence against... More »

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Alaska • corruption • Ted Stevens • trial • jury • Bill Allen • Colin Powell • gift • oil industry • US Senate • Veco Corp • Emmet Sullivan

OPINION

 Wrong on Iraq, 
 Wrong on Barack 

Obama endorsement brings Powell's judgment into question — again

Oct 21, 08 2:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Just as Colin Powell overlooked UN corruption before the Iraq war, he's overlooking Barack Obama's flaws as a candidate, Claudia Rosett writes in the National Review. His endorsement lacked any specifics about the transformations Obama will bring about, leading her to revisit Powell's previous "blind spots." Rosett doesn't... More »

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Iraq • Barack Obama • United Nations • Colin Powell • Oil for Food program • Election 2008 • Iraq war

OPINION

 Voters Flee GOP 
 Fury Like It's 1964 

Angry base has handed election to Obama, writes Cohen

Oct 21, 08 10:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Eight years ago George W. Bush made it to the White House as a "compassionate conservative," with plans to reform education and build a multiracial coalition. In 2008, writes Richard Cohen, that vision of the GOP is dead—replaced by "a mean, grumpy, exclusive, narrow-minded and... More »

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John McCain • Barry Goldwater • Republican Party • Colin Powell • compassionate conservatism • conservatism • George W. Bush • Sarah Palin

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