Colin Powell falls ill during dinner

[WhiteTara]

http://www.aspendailynews.com/article_14827
Troy Hooper - Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Fri 07/07/2006 11:01AM MST

ASPEN -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell was sitting in an ambulance Thursday night after falling ill while having dinner with friends.

Powell, 69, could be seen on Hopkins Avenue sitting up in an ambulance at 11 p.m. while his wife, Alma Vivian Johnson, and an aide looked on and two paramedics attended to his care. After sitting up for several moments, paramedics had him lie down inside the ambulance.

The four-star general was having dinner at Campo de Fiori with a large entourage that included former President Bill Clinton and Aspen businessman Michael Goldberg.

A source inside the dinner party said Powell was displaying symptoms compatible with altitude sickness and that the situation did not appear to be serious. No further information about the status of his health was immediately available.
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The former secretary of state is in town for the Aspen Ideas Festival.
:puffpiece:

[MADem]

1. ASPEN??? Isn't that where Kenny Boy just expired????

I think that mountain air ain't so hot once ya get past sixty....

[texasleo]

2. Fri 07/07/2006 11:01AM MST ?????

[tyedyeto]

10. I noticed that too

I'm MST (AZ) and it's only 6:35 right now! :shrug:

[originalpckelly]

12. Actually...

You live in Arizona where they don't observe Daylight Savings Time, like the rest of the MST zone. I live in CO where we observe MDT so it is actually 7:35, or 7:39 for my reply.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Standard_Time_Zone

[tyedyeto]

13. Yep

The OP does state MST tho. I know we stay standard while the rest go daylight. That plus the fact that it seems to be written in the future.

[Skidmore]

3. Aspen--where the roots are clumping and turning and trees fall.

Wonder if Scooter has ever been asked outright what was meant by that statement to Miller.

[Pachamama]

4. Campo de Fiori...my fav restaurant in Aspen...

No way that the food did that to Colin Powell....

Weird coincidink that these folks are all in Aspen at the same time as ole Kenny Boy expired....

When do the Aspens turn again? :eyes:

[Jim Sagle]

5. I guess the Aspens turned his stomach.

:beer:

[sam sarrha]

6. after Ken Lay all perceived enemies of the W will need a food taster

[Garbo 2004]

7. OK now that made me laugh. LOL. Good one. n/t

[maine_raptor]

15. Which explains

Bush's immigration policy!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Hey. Manuel, try this dish of mushrooms, will ya? No, not that one, that one!"


There again, that didn't work out so well for dear ol' Claudius, did it? :)

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Maybe he choked on pieces of his old UN speech.

[WhiteTara]

16. LOL

oh thank you! I'm holding my sides as I :rofl:

[goforit]

9. Scarey, I'm sure his wife is.

[kittenpants]

11. Gosh, I hope it's not the anthrax...

cause we all know what a small vial of anthrax can do to ya.

[obreaslan]

14. Are we witnessing a scene like the end of the "Godfather"...

Where the BFEE is settling all family business in one swoop?

I'm picturing a montage going back and forth between * making his speech with Canadian PM and Kenny BOy falling over in his home, and then Powell getting violently ill at the dinner table. All set to opera music. :)