best : political : WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED, POWELL OR RUMSFELD? [+] serious ballot by cranky ACTIVE Mon Oct 09, 06 - Sat Jul 04, 09 Washington Post, Sunday, October 1, 2006 ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2004, eight days after the president he served was elected to a second term, Secretary of State Colin Powell received a telephone call from the White House at his State Department office. The caller was not President Bush but Chief of Staff Andrew Card, and he got right to the point. "The president would like to make a change," Card said, using a time-honored formulation that avoided the words "resign" or "fire." He noted briskly that there had been some discussion of having Powell remain until after Iraqi elections scheduled for the end of January, but that the president had decided to take care of all Cabinet changes sooner rather than later. - - - - - - - - Powell saw Bush regularly over the next two months, passing through the Oval Office for routine meetings that took place as if nothing had transpired. Eventually, the White House contacted his office to schedule what it described as a "farewell call" with the president. Such calls were being arranged for each departing Cabinet secretary. When Powell saw the January 13 appointment on his calendar, his staff told him they assumed it was a goodbye photo opportunity with Bush. Was he supposed to talk to the president? Or was the president supposed to talk to him? "Am I supposed to say: 'This is what I think?' Or what?" He didn't have to say anything, he was told. It was just a "farewell call." - - - - - - - - The appointed time found Powell already in the Oval Office for a routine meeting; when it concluded, he lingered as the others left. As Powell later remembered it, Bush seemed puzzled and called after his departing chief of staff, "Where you going, Andy?" "Mr. President, I think this is supposed to be our farewell call," Powell prompted. "Is that why Condi ain't here?" he recalled the president asking. That was probably the reason, Powell replied. - - - - - - - - The session ended with a cordial handshake, and the secretary returned to the State Department. "That was really strange," he reported to Wilkerson. "The president didn't know why I was there." * * * * * * * * Bush's cluelessnes aside, in your opinion, who should the President have fired: Colin Powell or Donald Rumsfeld? Colin Powell Donald Rumsfeld Uh...Both? Ballot #103096 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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