“Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian,” he said. “But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no, that’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, ‘He’s a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists.’ This is not the way we should be doing it in America.”

Good for Powell for asserting this. Perhaps that’s where his being a “moderate Republican” works in his favor – he won’t be as readily branded as a liberal ‘tool’… although I must admit, I wish I had heard this from Obama’s camp, too. (Or was it said and did I not know about it?)