“I don’t think the country will be well served if the next three years are attempts to bring him [Obama] down and destroy him as a political figure,” said the retired four-star general, adding that “Americans will want to see some progress” and said he doesn’t regret voting for Obama in 2008.
The former Secretary of State also dismissed Dick Cheney’s suggestions that the country was less safe under Obama’s command: “To suggest that somehow we’ve become much less safer because of the administration isn’t born out by the facts.”
Powell caught a great deal of flack when he crossed party lines to endorse then Democratic presidential candidate Obama, but he stood his ground famously. Despite his stance on the issues, Powell has maintained an iconic level of respect, largely due to the fact that he’s his own man, with his own mind, evidenced by his support of President Obama, a democrat, and the grace with which he left President Bush’s side once it was revealed that the weapons of mass destruction incentive for war was a hoax; he made an attempt to prevent the invasion, but it fell on deaf ears.
Powell seems to be the emodiment of the adage, “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” –gerald radford
