Colin Powell on Bachmann

Q: Sir, what role did McCain's negativity play in your decision?

POWELL: It troubled me. You know, we have two wars. We have economic problems. We have
health problems. We have education problems. We have infrastructure problems. We
have problems around the world with our allies. And so those are the problems
the American people wanted to hear about, not about Mr. Ayers, not about who is
a Muslim and who's not a Muslim. Those kinds of images going out on al Jazeera
are killing us around the world. And we have got to say to the world it doesn't
make any difference who you are or what you are. If you're an American you're an
American. And this business of, for example, a congressman(sic) from Minnesota who's
going around saying let's examine all congressmen to see who is pro-America or
not pro-America. We have got to stop this kind of nonsense and pull ourselves
together and remember that our great strength is in our unity and in our
diversity. And so that really was driving me