Posted on 11/16/2004 8:08:37 AM PST by Kaslin
When Secretary of State Colin Powell announced his resignation on Monday, he had already been "politely" encouraged to leave his post by President Bush, according to NBC News.
"Powell was going to leave but he was not necessarily going to leave right away, particularly with what's happening in the Middle East," the network's Andrea Mitchell reported Tuesday morning.
"He was prepared to stay for a few more months. And that was politely not accepted," she claimed. "They needed Powell in 2000, they thought, in order to get elected," Mitchell explained to radio host Don Imus. "They've now been re-elected and won't have to face the voters. And now, as the conservatives used to say about Reagan - 'Let Reagan be Reagan' - let Bush be Bush. He's true to himself now and doesn't have to play any games towards the moderates."
Mitchell said that Powell's replacement, Condoleezza Rice, has received a "mandate" from President Bush to "clean house" at the State Department.
"It's going to be a whole new world" at the agency, the NBC'er said.
It may be BS.... but it sounds good to me :)
Andrea Mitchell drips with bias.
sounds GREAT to me. Maybe now we'll actually get a State Dept. that will act in America's interests.
Not really BS, just spin, I would imagine. I'm not aware of many positions where you can resign 'in a few months' from now. You are either on the team or not. The media doesn't quite get it.
Powell made it clear that he didn't intend to stick around for a full two terms a long time ago.
The writer clearly has a fantasy of writing for a Hollywood gossip rag.
WHOOOOOO-HOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is she somehow implying that this is bad news? Fixing the State Department sounds great to me but then again I am a stupid "red stater".
"You're either for us...or against us"
It's true that he wanted to stay until March....but why should he??? He wasn't even doing a decent job for Bush anymore...he needed to go....his Dept tried to get Bush defeated!!!
Sounds good to me too! Do you think Callahan from NE is a liberal?
Harry Callahan?? :)
Same was true for Paige, he wanted to stay another year, but the White House wanted to get on with the new term.
Maybe so. Powell was too limp-wristed for my tastes. Its clear the State Department, as presently constituted, does not represent American values and interests abroad. A through house-cleaning is long overdue.
purge the clintonistas
Not only bias, she drips with misinformation.
Powell will remain in office until Ms. Rice is approved
by the next Congress. That could be well into February.
And it makes sense, with the immediacy of Israeli-Palestinian situation, that Powell not be immersed in the start-up of any negotiations only to break the continuity and step out in mid-process. Ms. Rice should initiate and
follow through without a break.
We'll be able to tell if this is true by watching for the back-biting leaks that start to flood the legacy press, just as has been the case with Goss and the CIA.
Should begin about any minute now.
Imagine a state department that doesn't constantly leak to the MSM...where would they go for info? Do you think they would have to actually respond the what the White House says is our foreign policy?
Who's going to tell them what to think?
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