Colin Powell takes a swipe at Micheal Moore

Yes, he was actually cracking on the Bush adminstration's response to Murtha, where McClellan accused Murtha of aligning himself with Moore. But in the process of lambasting the administration's response, the former Secretary of State offhandedly smacked down our friendly filmmaker:

"To attack him the way he was attacked, accusing him of being a Michael Moore, was disgraceful and was not worthy,"

I couldn't help but wonder what Moore thought of that! Powell went on to say that Murtha "is a great friend", but disagreed with his position regards redeployment.

Powell has always tried to maintain an image as statesman first, republican second. The left loves this, especially his partial mea culpa regarding his UN dog and pony show prior to invasion. Some might call it 'talking out of both sides of your mouth', but whatever it is, it appears to have a nullifying affect across the political spectrum. Just when the left thinks Powell is about to fire all his howitzers at Bush, he backs up and agrees with the policy.
This strategy, if it is one, has been widely viewed as a novel way to criticize the right without actually criticizing himself, ie, 'I was in favor of toppling Saddam but not the way Bush did it'.

We've been told Mrs. Powell won't allow Colin to run for President. We'll see, but I think he'd be a strong candidate in 2008 if he got the necessary kitchen pass. Thing is, I wonder if the requisite bridges leading to nomination have already been burned?