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(09-01-2014 06:47 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Nm

Honestly...Only a damn fool wants to be POTUS. Powell ain't no fool.

McCain/Powell in 1996 would've -- IMHO -- crushed the incumbent Clinton/Gore ticket by roughly 53-45. Perot wouldn't have run with McCain in the race.

Oh, well ...

I think Powell was aware that he could've won the office back then. He was also aware that he'd owe patronage to the powers-that-be in the party. He'd have to have conceded a lot in his presidency.

Mike Ditka let America down when he didn't run for the US Senate seat in IL. No Senator Obama, no president Obama. Thanks Mike.

Powell 2000

Let's be clear. After 2000 was he decline of America.

(09-01-2014 07:20 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Powell 2000

Let's be clear. After 2000 was he decline of America.

The decline continued after 2000, but it began long before then.

(09-01-2014 07:20 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Powell 2000

Let's be clear. After 2000 was he decline of America.

2008 marked the accelerated decline. The END of American exceptionalism. Thanks Obama.

2000 was the start beginning.

(09-01-2014 07:28 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(09-01-2014 07:20 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Powell 2000

Let's be clear. After 2000 was he decline of America.

The decline continued after 2000, but it began long before then.

Yeah. Probably in the 60's or 70's.

2008 has probably marked a time when qualifications for POTUS are thrown out of the window. You see it on both sides now. All you need is to say the right things and tickle the right fancies. If you sound good, jump in the running!

I can see this becoming a trend.

No Thank You Colin. You used the system long enough.


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(09-01-2014 08:16 PM)South Carolina Duke Wrote:  No Thank You Colin. You used the system long enough.


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Yeah stop living off of welfare Colin!

(09-01-2014 08:20 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(09-01-2014 08:16 PM)South Carolina Duke Wrote:  No Thank You Colin. You used the system long enough.


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Yeah stop living off of welfare Colin!

Four-stars always on the teat.

Would take Colin Powell over Obama any day.

There were reliable reports back then, that Powell's wife was convinced he'd be assassinated if he ran, let alone won, and talked him out of it.

The Decline started when Democrats thought it best to bring down Nixon over a small scandal that becamed inflamed when the Democrats smelled Blood in the Watergate.
Nixon was months away from possibly winning the Vietnam War and after having a landslide election victory. The Dems couldn't afford such Success for a Republican President to achieve. The Liberal media made a circus out of it while Nixon didn't destroy taped conversations like Clinton and Obama administration's did with EMails and documents. This led to recession along with much higher energy prices and rationing of gasoline. This led to the election of the 2nd worst President in Jimmy Carter.Double digit inflation and extremely high interest rates and miscues were the norm. It took Reagan nearly 5 years to start to straighten out. Clinton benefited from most of those programs . Shortly after Bush took office 911 happened and Muslim Extremists are to blame for the down turn again. It was coming back until Democrats took control of Both houses again and has Never regained a foothold since.

(09-02-2014 07:56 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  The Decline started when Democrats thought it best to bring down Nixon over a small scandal that becamed inflamed when the Democrats smelled Blood in the Watergate.
Nixon was months away from possibly winning the Vietnam War and after having a landslide election victory. The Dems couldn't afford such Success for a Republican President to achieve. The Liberal media made a circus out of it while Nixon didn't destroy taped conversations…

It is unclear who destroyed the tape with the infamous "18-1/2 minute gap". It may well have been Nixon himself who did that, although there are other, equally-plausible explanations.

At any rate, I have closely studied the hodgepodge of events collectively known as "Watergate" for more than 20 years, and I agree it's absurd that any American president was faced with the choice of impeachment-or-resignation over that matter. "Watergate" wasn't a total nothing, but it was close. The ability of Nixon's enemies to manufacture a full-blown national crisis out of that episode remains a sobering lesson, even four decades later. Still and all, the fact that Nixon could so incompetently allow himself to get drawn into that position says a lot about him and his capacity (or lack thereof) for executive leadership. How did it happen? From April 1973, the American people waited for him to answer that question, and from then until April 1994 (when Nixon died), he never did. Didn't really even try to, as far as his public statements are concerned. RIP.

Since then, we have had three presidents -- Reagan, Clinton, and Bush/43 -- whose political enemies claimed committed misdeeds that were "worse than Watergate." Yet none of those three was removed from office, and really none of them were in too much danger of that happening to them (Clinton sort of, the other two not at all). I think, at some level, that reflects an unspoken consensus on the part of the American people that Watergate was a molehill-made-into-a-mountain, and they have no desire to repeat that experience if they can possibly help it.

I would have voted for him.