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Originally posted by RawAlex@Oct 2 2004, 05:13 PM
Where has Colin Powell been for the last couple of months? Could it be that he so doesn't like the Bush administration that they are purposely not using him in the campaign?
Alex
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This is what my spending a few minutes in google news brought up. This is just a part of his schedule ...
Powell was interviewed on ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos" last week. He also met with "the General People's Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Co-operation". The prior week he met with the Russian foreign minister, EU Chief diplomat and Kofi Annan. He also had a meeting with Syria's foreign minister. The week before that he conducted a sit down interview with members of the media at the state department.
So he has been conducting public interviews of a normal high profile commensurate with his position while performing his normal very busy schedule.
I don't remember much of a history of secretary of states on the campaign trail.
Here is the cabinet of the last president. Which of these was "out there pushing for president?
Secretary of State: Warren Christopher, Madeline Albright
Secretary of The Treasury: Robert Rubin
Secretary of Defense: William Perry Cohen
Attorney General: Janet Reno
Secretary of The Interior: Bruce Babbit
Secretary of Agriculture: Mike Espey
Secretary of Commerce: Ron Brown
Secretary of Labor: Robert Reich
Secretary of Health & Human Services: Donna Shallela
Secretary of Housing & Urban Dev.: Henry Cisneros
Secretary of Energy: Hazel O'Leary
Secretary of Education: Richard Riley
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Regardless, I still maintain the winner of the election is going to be more lucky than good. Small individual random events - like traffic accidents and headaches - in battleground states will determine the winner of this election.