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"Former Secretary of State Colin Powell tonight threw a wet blanket on Sean Hannity's longtime obsession with attacking President Obama over Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers.

During an interview with Powell on his Fox News show, Hannity said that he finds Obama to be "one of the most divisive figures in -- that I've witnessed in politics today."

Powell responded: "[T]hat's a term that's being used rather freely. I don't think he's that divisive an issue." Powell then asked, "What could have been more divisive than, when President Obama was inaugurated, for a number of Republicans, friends of mine, and a number of commentators to say, 'We're going to destroy him. We're going to destroy him'?"

Hannity replied: "I was one of his harshest critics. I wasn't out to destroy him." Hannity also asserted: "Well, I was critical about Bill Ayers and Reverend Wright." Powell responded: "I don't know Bill Ayers from the man in the moon. Bill Ayers and Reverend Wright are just passing things through [Obama's] life." Hannity then said that Obama spent "20 years" in Wright's church, to which Powell responded: "Well, so?"

Powell has gone so far left he may as well run on the dem ticket in 2016.

Doesn't know Bill Ayers?? Just passing through??? Poor Colin has jumped the shark. Senility and Alzheimer's is a sad thing. :frown:

That's "throwing a wet blanket?" Sounds pretty tame to me.

This is why I should have my own shown.

Obama is divisive because He made an enormous deal out of being the one who was going to be transparent, unite folks, and so on and so on. The GOP hadn't said squat at this point.

He's barely in office and he divers head first into the dumbest thing I've ever heard someone of that supposed stature say "I don't know all the facts but, I KNOW the police acted stupidly". He, on a national level, chooses to bring race up. And wrongly so.

Next up? His little round tables where he is, clearly and obviously dismissive of the little people like Ryan and "John" McCain. His "I won, that's why you don't matter" moment.

Next up? Not meeting and discussing much of anything with congressional Republicans during the birthing of the Stimulati.

Next up? The summer of '09 the ill tempered health care 'debate'.

Through it all, Obama's AG is insulting the entire nation, calling everyone cowards that won't talk about race. Through it all, Obama shows himself to be aloof, pontificating and professorial in a not so good way as he speaks to the unwashed masses. This is to say nothing of his campaign rhetoric about 'clinging to guns and bibles...'. This is to say nothing of his attacks on various industries and institutions. This is to say nothing of his total lack of follow through on his transparency and anti lobbying claims.

DeMint didn't make his comment until the summer of '09 during the health care crap.

McConnell didn't make his comment until fall of '11.

Obama is terribly divisive, He was, and is, the malignant narcissist.

Obama is terribly divisive, He was, and is, the malignant narcissist.

..and always has been his entire adult life. As destructively as that trait leads him to behave...nobody anywhere should be the least bit surprised about it.

Powell's ideology is that he is a black man before anything else - politics, the law, social issues; Powell is primarily an African-American and that is where he comes from in everything. He also has a bit of a chip on his shoulder, which is ridiculous, not to mention racist, for someone who has risen to the heights he has and knows that it can be done. So he is very much pro-Obama, not for any accomplishments he (Obama) has attained (which are none) but because he is black. And he will go to the mat, even when it makes him look absurd and mentally deficient, to defend his comrade in color.

He also clearly would NOT endorse Obama, something he had zero problem doing in 2008.

From the Lauer interview:

"I ought to listen to what the President says and what the President's been doing. But you know, I also have to listen to what the other fellows say. I've known Mitt Romney for many years, good man."

"I don't want to throw my weight behind somebody....I'm still listening to what the Republicans are saying they're going to do to fix the fiscal problems we have, to get the economy moving. And I think I owe that to the Republican Party..."

This has the sound of a man who does not want to endorse Obama, but does not want to say so, either. Elsewhere in the interview he mentioned that one of the perks of being a private citizen is, you're not required or compelled to endorse anyone.

Now, he may yet endorse him. But the plain fact is, people are not rushing to support the man when they enthusiastically did four years ago. I find that revealing.

The sad thing is, if the Republicans could have fielded a candidate that people were excited about, the contest would already be over. People have lost faith in Obama. They're looking for alternatives. They're just not sure it's Romney yet.

Unless things improve substantially, a lot of people are going to vote for the alternative anyway.

Powell hasn't decided, yet is making every excuse in the world for Obama. Ties to a domestic terrorist. Ties to one of THE MOST divisive and racist preachers in this country. And Powell claims to know nothing about them? 20 years in the pews of that church, married by Wright, his kids baptized by Wright, and it’s just a passing thing in Obama’s life?

Where did that wet blanket land? It sure wasn’t on Hannity.