When you want to send a message to a nation that gobbles up the anti- Bush ideas of filmmaker-author Michael Moore, whom do you call to deliver it?
Secretary of State Colin Powell, of course.
Powell, visiting Germany for a conference on Afghanistan, took time out of his schedule Thursday to answer questions for more than an hour from a group of high school students living in what was once part of East Berlin. Powell earned millions on the public speaking circuit before he joined the Bush administration, and this sort of question-and-answer session -- televised live on German TV -- plays to his strengths as a forceful, calming voice. Powell, aides say, also enjoys these events because students tend to ask the kind of impolite questions that make adults nervous.
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Powell wouldn't bite when one student asked whether he would "run for secretary of state" in a second Bush term. "I serve at his (Bush's) pleasure," Powell said. Powell, who has hinted in the past he plans to leave at the end of this term, paused and then quipped, "That's called a slide-away."
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/04/02/MNG4I5VJ4V1.DTL Cheap as it may be, but Powell won a lot of gummy points with many Germans by presenting himself to the German public (even if just to a selected few).
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