August 04, 2003
Colin Powell To Step Down "If Bush is Re-elected"

Headline from today's Washington Post

State Dept. Changes Seen if Bush Reelected
Powell and Armitage Intend to Step Down

Today's Seattle Times re-headlined the same story as:
Powell signals he won't serve if Bush elected for 2nd term

That would leave open the possibility for Colin Powell to remain as Secretary of State under the following scenarios:
a) Bush dies in office.
c) Bush loses the election.
b) Bush cancels the election and declares himself President for Life.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at August 04, 2003 11:25 AM
Comments

I find it hard to believe that Powell will announce himslef to be a lame duck with 1 1/2 years of being Sec. of State left. I think this is a despicable trial baloon leaked by disgruntled Foggy Bottom types. Not that I would really miss Powell that much anyway.

Posted by: Joel on August 4, 2003 12:00 PM

Armitage appeared on Sean Hannity's radio show today to say that the story was bunk.

Posted by: Mike Kole on August 4, 2003 03:36 PM

Drudge says No to the story, as well.

Posted by: jimg on August 4, 2003 03:56 PM

More dirty Tricks from the left. They can't face the facts that they will not win in 2004. I just hope they can face the facts that they may not win again for a very long time.

Posted by: Mat on August 4, 2003 04:25 PM

If this was a dirty trick, it was a horribly timed one. A year from now would be more like it, but even then it would probably be too early to do the Dems any good.

Posted by: Xrlq on August 4, 2003 05:54 PM

So someone at the WaPo made up a story. Guess they're just trying to compete with the NYTimes. Scrappleface makes up better stuff than both though. My guess is that the Seattle paper you love didn't use re-elect because they have a "deeply held belief" that the President was never elected in 2000 so he can't be re-elected.

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