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“Not me. I distrusted Powell from the moment I heard about him (during the first Gulf War when I was in grade school). Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf was the military hero who led us to victory in that war, but the media played up Colin “sanctions will stop Saddam” Powell instead. “

Good call. You were smart for a kid.

But then it was a kid who saw the Emperor’s new clothes for what they were.

>> If I didn’t know better, I’d swear you were that Black Conservative cabbie I met in DC in 1995. He told me to my face not to trust Powell, that he was no good. He was right. <<

Heh. Unlikely, since I'm white and wasn't old enough to drive back then. (we did have a class trip to DC back in 1994 though)

>> Good call. You were smart for a kid. But then it was a kid who saw the Emperor’s new clothes for what they were. <<

I'll give you one better. My dad met Colin Powell wayyy back in 1969, when they were both stationed in Vietnam. Apparently they interacted for about 3 days together on some base, and my dad tells me that nobody thought much of it at the time since Powell was an unknown army major back then. I asked him what he thought of Powell, and he told me "Not Much." I get the impression it wasn't a positive experience.