Posted on 09/05/2004 12:16:38 PM PDT by wagglebee
Sept. 13 issue - For nearly two years, the settled wisdom in Washington has been that Colin Powell would never stick around for a second Bush term. The secretary of State, who began his tenure as the most popular and prestigious figure in Bush's cabinet, was fed up—tired of being a moderate minority of one in a squall of neocon true believers. But last week there was a hint that the settled wisdom may now be unsettled. A former close aide and current confidant of Powell's, asked during the GOP convention whether the secretary might stay on, nodded his head eagerly and said yes.
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GOOD point!
"Anti-Americanism has grown so bad that no foreign leader can cooperate with Bush, on Iraq or any other issue, without taking a severe hit in his own polls."
Apparently a cartoon-like understanding of interntational relations now qualifies you to write for MSNBC.
He's afraid that his career would pretty much be over after he left?
The article harps on about anti-Americanism the world over and blames it on Pres. Bush. It has been there all along, it's simply more vocal...and covered more...when we have a Republican President, and esp. a very determined one.
I agreem Newsweek and MSNBC will print basically whatever you hand them.
Powell will most likely stay. Powell is a great asset for Bush and for the US.
I'm not sure about Rumsfeld and Powell. Rumsfeld is not a young guy, he is up there, however invigorated he is, if he does step down, it would be for retirement, but he does want to remake the pentagon over and SOD rarely stay for 2 full terms.
Powell, has to be exhausted, he might not want a full 4 years, he's also not ambitious and has no interest in holding elected office. If he stops enjoying his job or grows board, or tired, he may just retire and go off into the sunset and dedicate himself to his foundation and helping children.
Exactly, and did it ever occur to the MSM that maybe, just maybe, President Bush is right and the rest of the world is wrong?
Never happen.
Of course Powell will stay. Those who claimed the contrary, have an agenda, in which they believe, apparently with great sincerity, that Bush has encouraged an antipathy between Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell, and that this antipathy was so deep and of such long standing that Powell was under great distress, to the point that his departure was imminent on January 20, 2005. But this belief was fostered by the same people who thought that Bush himself would be departing on that date.
Bush and Powell are much more on the same page than any of Bush's critics could imagine.
Case in point...the brouhaha over Abu Ghraib and the predictions that Rumsfeld would resign over it. What garbage.
I had a waking dream while watching Meet the Press today; that Newt Gingrich would make a great Secretary of State. He would carry President Bush's views unfiltered to world "leaders." More importantly, he could be just the man to clean out the Augean stables at Foggy Bottom. Time to ferret out the anti-Semites and communists in the State Department.
I would hope then, that those same foreign leaders lose our telephone number when the going gets tough and they need us.
amusing.
you're correct, some in the media are waking up to a duyba2.
i think some of the problems in our perception of secretary powell issue from the leftwing media's dislike of successful american blacks in the u.s. government.
it's a reverse racism of sorts.
and of course, the black community refers to powell and rice as "porch n-----s".
I agree.
I doubt if he's going to stay for the Iran butt-kicking that's coming. Might stay to make a deal with North Korea.HMM.
Karen Hughes should take Powell's place.
I don't think Karen Hughes wants a permanent position in the administration. I wouldn't be surprised to see Tommy Franks moved into Powell's job or Rumfeld's if either of them leaves.
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