Saturday, August 07, 2004
A Powerful Person Saying Things
Said Colin Powell:
posted by Blicero : 8/07/2004 03:30:00 AM
"Some people think that if you're a Republican you cannot have moderate views. I have moderate views in a number of issues, moderate by normal political definition, with respect to affirmative action and things of that nature, and I find that there are many, many Republicans like me who feel that way," he said last month in an interview with radio host Armstrong Williams.Right. Well, who's going to second-guess a man with a 69% approval rating?
The Democratic Party has traditionally drawn more minorities than the GOP has. But Powell said the Republicans deserve more credit for action. "If you look at where affirmative action really started, I mean, who really started to put this in the law, you will find that it has a Republican origin," Powell, the party's most prominent African American, told Williams, a black conservative commentator and protege of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.).
"You will find that President Nixon got a lot of these programs started," he said.
posted by Blicero : 8/07/2004 03:30:00 AM
