Saturday, July 08, 2006

Colin Powell Survives Clinton Poisoning Attempt

Just joshing. I thought I'd try my skills at being a New York Times reporter. Actually, if I had to sit in a booth at the local Denny's with Bill Clinton, I would probably suffer the same fate.

Saying he was fine, former Secretary of State Colin Powell returned to a seminar Friday after being briefly hospitalized following a dinner with former President Clinton and others.

Powell, 69, arrived on time for a panel discussion at the Aspen Ideas Festival and showed no signs that he had been sick the night before.

"I'm fine. I look healthy, don't I?" he told the Aspen Daily News after the hour-long session. "I started hyperventilating a little and was feeling a little altitude sickness, I think.

"I probably would have been OK but they said, 'Oh god, let's take a look at him.' They took me to the hospital, gave me a quick examination and let me go."

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