{"id":6433,"date":"2011-05-09T13:55:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T17:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6433"},"modified":"2011-05-09T13:29:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T17:29:44","slug":"colin-powell-pres-obama-blew-away-the-birthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6433","title":{"rendered":"Colin Powell: Pres. Obama Blew Away The Birthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORANGEBURG, SC\u00a0 &#8212; <strong>Colin Powell <\/strong>told graduates of South Carolina&#8217;s premier historically Black university that they were graduating during a tumultuous time that saw a royal wedding, a pope&#8217;s beatification and a U.S. military assault that killed <strong>Osama bin Laden<\/strong>, &#8220;the worst person on earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the former secretary of state and Joint Chiefs chairman told South Carolina State University&#8217;s 400 graduates on Friday that he particularly enjoyed another recent event:&#8221;That was when <strong>President Obama<\/strong> took out his birth certificate and blew away <strong>Donald Trump <\/strong>and all the birthers!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The stadium roared in approval of Powell&#8217;s comments on the president&#8217;s move last week to quell the doubts of those who don&#8217;t believe he was born in Hawaii. The retired Army four-star general endorsed <strong>Pres. Obama&#8217;s<\/strong> 2008 presidential bid.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Friday, <strong>Powell<\/strong> was made an honorary member of the school&#8217;s ROTC Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORANGEBURG, SC\u00a0 &#8212; Colin Powell told graduates of South Carolina&#8217;s premier historically Black university that they were graduating during a tumultuous time that saw a royal wedding, a pope&#8217;s beatification and a U.S. military assault that killed Osama bin Laden, &#8220;the worst person on earth.&#8221; But the former secretary of state and Joint Chiefs chairman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}