Colin Powell: “No Regrets” About Backing Obama
Former Secretary of State General Colin Powell said Sunday he had no regrets about endorsing Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign, but that the president “put too much on the plate for the American people to absorb at this time.”
“I think he was the right choice when the nation voted for him,” he told “Face the Nation” moderator Bob Schieffer, adding that “he has done some things that help the country a great deal.”
Powell noted that “our financial situation is secure now,” considering the country was in a recession when the president took office. “Slowly but surely we are started to see the kind of improvements the American people wanted and voted for him for.”
He added, “Now his job has to be to convey to the American people that things are going to get better.”
Powell conjured an old military expression: “No great strategist and no great battle plan survives first contact with an enemy. And no great political campaign survives first contact with trying to govern in Washington, D.C.”
He said that while Americans understand the need for reform of health care and education and energy, their first priority was to fix the economy - the mortgage system, the credit problem, unemployment, trade. “As the president went into these [other] areas, all of which were important . . . in the eyes of the American people, in my judgment, it looks like it was more important than the main attack, which is fix the economy and get Americans working again.”
Powell said while change is happening, “it is happening too slowly for the patience of the American people.”
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