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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has reportedly called Republican nominee Donald Trump a "national disgrace," according to leaked emails. The Republican retired four-star general's comments were revealed in a hack on his personal emails. The emails were posted on DCLeaks.com, which has reportedly been tied to other recent high-profile hacks. Mr. Powell, who has been quiet during the election, said he had "no further comment" but was "not denying it".
[...] Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who crossed party lines in 2008 to endorse Democratic [candidate] Barack Obama, has tried to float above this year's tendentious presidential election. So much for that. First the government released his note to Democrat Hillary Clinton advising her on how to use personal email for back-channel communications while secretary of state. Now - in an ironic twist - his personal email has been hacked, revealing sweeping denunciations of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and some sharp criticisms of Democrat Hillary Clinton.
[...] "Yup, the whole birther movement was racist," the email read. "That's what the 99% believe. When Trump couldn't keep that up he said he also wanted to see if the certificate noted that he was a Muslim." But the leaked emails also revealed Mr Powell's frustrations with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her handling of her use of private email while at the State Department. "Sad thing... HRC could have killed this two years ago by merely telling everyone honestly what she had done and not tie me into it," the email read, referring to Mrs Clinton. "I told her staff three times not to try that gambit. I had to throw a mini tantrum at a Hampton's party to get their attention."
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Friday September 16 2016, @04:29PM
Touch choice. It comes down to a choice between stupid or evil.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 16 2016, @05:55PM
Most of us have been dealing with stupid people all our lives. (I suppose that a few of our members may BE stupid, but, let's not even go there, alright?) I'll take stupid over evil, any time, thank you. The evil bastard will stick a knife in your back, just for fun. Stupid may screw you in dozens of different ways, but he won't knife you for the fun of it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @07:56PM
I don't find T a bastion morality either. H is not slimier than the average politician. Most politicians ARE slimeballs. You have to be to win such an ugly game.
T admires Putin, who is as slimy as they come.
But the important difference between her and T is that H can shut-up when she wants to. When dealing with world leaders and diplomats, the skill to STFU at the right time is paramount.
Reality-TV-politics perhaps can fly in the USA, but not the entire world. The don't "get" that style, and won't tolerate it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @08:30PM
> Touch choice. It comes down to a choice between stupid or evil.
Oh please.
Do you find pleasure in being a low information voter?
Sure, you've got just enough of the information spoon fed to you. But you've applied no critical thinking.
For example, just to pick a recent meme of evil: The fact that clinton had her phones smashed with a hammer is yet another example of her being evil because “People who have nothing to hide don’t smash phones with hammers.”
Except, duh! Of course she had something to hide. She was secretary of state, destroying the phones is expected because its a cache of info about her and her job. If anything they should have been more thoroughly destroyed.
With clinton its always working backwards from the facts to prove she's evil. She did X and since we know she's evil, we know she did X to be evil. Any other mundane explanation for X is just partisanship. I used to dislike Clinton, but shit what I dislike more are people who fail to apply critical thinking and think they are insightful. The constant stream of shallow, uncritical arguments about Clinton being evil has been the most persuasive factor in convincing me that she's not evil.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Friday September 16 2016, @08:39PM
Being beholden to corporations that are are turning the US into a serfdom is what I consider evil, not smashing phones. There are other items on the list, but that's the big one. I'm sure the idiot would sell out as well, but he's in it for the narcissism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @09:14PM
> Being beholden to corporations that are are turning the US into a serfdom is what I consider evil,
Ok. Lets do this. Name your best evidence for that belief. Something that you and I can both dig deep into and verify.
I'm talking about the application of critical thinking and analysis, not working backwards from the assumption she's evil.
Be warned, I've done this sort of thing about a dozen times just for my own edification. And every...single...time it turned out to be other than the surface presentation. So if you haven't done this before, if you've just been content with the surface analysis, you are probably going to have some cognitive dissonance.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday September 16 2016, @09:38PM
How about you log in first
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @09:47PM
This is not about me, or you, or whoever it is that I've asked to convince me why clinton is evil.
Having an account does not change the truth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 18 2016, @11:43AM
I'm sorry to see that you aren't going to follow up and put your money where your mouth is. Although I can't say I'm surprised. Critical thinking is hard. Hating on someone with power is easy, even if it just enables the powerful to be evil.