Huffington Post
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.
Related articles
- Blown away – Powell: Obama trumped birthers (politico.com)
- Colin Powell: Obama blew away the birthers (sfgate.com)
- Colin Powell: I enjoyed Obama one-upping Trump (cbsnews.com)
- Colin Powell’s Former Chief Of Staff: “Let Me Waterboard Donald Rumsfeld!” (businessinsider.com)
- Behind David Petraeus’ CIA Detour (thedailybeast.com)
- Best Black Celeb Mentors (theroot.com)
- Colin Powell at American University! (auambassadors.wordpress.com)
I so happy when Powell walked away from the Bush/Cheney empire, as he was being duped and used by them. Good to see that he wised up, and got the hell out of there.
Pingback: Colin Powell: Obama Blew Away The Birthers (via The Fifth Column) « Don in Mass
Our president had already showed his US birth Certificate to;
1. Get a Passport; http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2008/03/20/obamas_passport_files_hacked/
2. Become a US Senator;
I feel sorry for all the little Birthers, It’s not their fault; it’s your families’ fault that taught you that you were better than other people based on race, creed ethnicity, color, nationality or sex, in short they engrained in you their hate (what a legacy).
But you know at some point you need to grow up and act like an adult and think for yourself and distinguish what is true and what is BS.
But there is where the little Birthers find yourself because we all know it was never about a birth certificate or grades, because we all know you want to go around wearing white sheets, burn crosses and hang people who are not like you, we know that your growth is stunted in your hate, and hate is what this is all about, you will never win anymore, and I feel sorry for all of you.
I can only imagine when our President is re-elected what you phonies will lie about next. Oh, and just know, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it’s a duck, the little Birthers are a bunch of racists!
What kind of fool would make accusation when it is clear that they have no facts, Trump real screwed himself.
1 = US President,
0 = Bin Laden/ Birthers/ Trump/ Huckabee
Pingback: Former Colin Powell staffer says Bush did not want to get Bin Laden | ikners.com