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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGen Wes Clark flings cellphone after ringing on air CNN
Link to tweet
If I had a nickel for every time my stupid phone rings during an inopportune time, I'd be rich (but would lose it all by buying new cellphones ).
Baitball Blogger
(46,770 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)I think he would make a good president.
elleng
(131,238 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,344 posts)for a short time on his campaign in Iowa (advance set-up & shuttling journos). Great fun, awesome experience. He was impressive both as a person and a leader.
elleng
(131,238 posts)I met him a few times, briefly, in DC, before and after speeches (most not campaign speeches,) and always learned a lot from him.
CTyankee
(63,914 posts)I remember liking him a lot.
Wish it had worked out for him. I'll bet he would have made a great president...
elleng
(131,238 posts)'Followed' and encouraged his candidacy, was among the group persuading him to run, and been following him ever since. Actually involvement with him resulted in/caused me to become a political 'junkie,' I think.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Remember me? I really miss working on that campaign and doing all the videos before it became the norm.
Ice
elleng
(131,238 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,390 posts)Like most respectable Generals he's a dove at heart. He has seen the results of violent conflict.
elleng
(131,238 posts)Injured in Vietnam.
AND, imo, the smartest in the class, so many don't like him.
Ilsa
(61,709 posts)Made phone calls to New Hampshire all day.
ewagner
(18,964 posts)when he was campaigning for Kerry...
great gentleman...would have made a great President
AllyCat
(16,239 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,759 posts)More people should do that.
ret5hd
(20,536 posts)And those would just be mine.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,759 posts)I've been tempted to do that with other people's phones.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)...he actually just did a toss to someone off-camera, and to that staffer's credit, they caught it!
Although I wasn't a Clarkie back in 2004 (I was a Deaniac ), I totally could've gotten behind his candidacy!
elleng
(131,238 posts)I WAS, and still am a Clarkie.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,759 posts)I did support Clark in 2004, but sadly did not get to vote for him in the 2004 Illinois primary because he had already dropped out. That's that story of my life, with the exceptions of 2008 and 2012.
ewagner
(18,964 posts)DownriverDem
(6,232 posts)down the volume when I'm somewhere and don't want to hear it.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Response to Dennis Donovan (Original post)
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renate
(13,776 posts)I still have an autographed poster of his from the night he won the Oklahoma primary!
elleng
(131,238 posts)Remember Dixville Notch???
Clark wins Dixville Notch
Tuesday, January 27, 2004 Posted: 10:19 AM EST (1519 GMT)
https://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/27/mgrind.hot.primary/
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)Tough job. I really thought he would have been good against Bush considering his background and the times.
As an aside. When they did the recount, it made me feel good about the machines and the way we vote in Oklahoma. The count was not off at all.
JohnnyRingo
(18,669 posts)I strongly supported him way back when.
elleng
(131,238 posts)we all end up meeting AGAIN!!!
GoCubsGo
(32,098 posts)Being from Arkansas and fairly close to the Clintons, I strongly suspect that, had Hillary not gotten ratfucked, he would have probably been part of her cabinet. Perhaps the Defense Secretary, or even Secretary of State. When I see the dregs of humanity filling all those jobs now, it just makes me want to puke.
elleng
(131,238 posts)backtoblue
(11,346 posts)What does it say about this country that we have someone like Trump as president instead of someone like Wes Clark?
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I have the opposite problem because I so frequently have it set to silent.
George II
(67,782 posts)Nasruddin
(754 posts)At least in recent iOS:
swipe up to get to the control panel,
press & hold the crescent moon
Do Not Distub menu comes up - select "until I leave this location"
It seems to work - not completely sure what "leave this location" means, but it does turn off eventually.
Learned this from Barry Ritholtz a few days ago!
Boomerproud
(7,973 posts)The passion must not be there inside. Pity.
elleng
(131,238 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,788 posts)elleng
(131,238 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,788 posts)lapucelle
(18,369 posts)Patterson
(1,532 posts)with Conway Twitty: Hello darlin', nice to see you, it's been a long tiiiiiime..."
Stinky The Clown
(67,832 posts)We volunteered for his campaign when he was running.
Cosmocat
(14,576 posts)I was a supporter ...
riversedge
(70,362 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)pocket". I was in a very slow elevator and at the time the phone I had, chose to freeze up. It just continued blaring "Help, I'm trapped in your pocket" over and over again, there were about 10 people in there with me, I couldn't even figure out how to turn the damned thing off, I was mortified and panicking.😳
Raine
(30,541 posts)to vote for him because he was out before we had our primary here in California.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Perhaps he's vocabulary challenged and just didn't know the definition of "fling" or connotation of "across the room."
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)...who is now on Faux.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)paid Kurtz to mask and make excuses for RW media lies.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)I pretty-much watch MSNBC 24 hrs a day (I'm going thru my Khephra phase of life - still miss that dude) but will turn to CNN to see if what might be breaking on MSNBC is "playing in Peoria" (Peoria=CNN, and I lived in Peoria many yrs ago ).
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)cleanser and also a quick way of checking for what and how Fox, as well as they, is corrupting understanding, though nothing takes the place of sucking it up and going and looking. PBS Evening News has also moved from watched to inspected.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,921 posts)and I wish he'd done better.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)It's a tough call. In 2008, he would've faced both Secretary Clinton and Senator Obama. In 2016, the Secretary again. Maybe 2020 would've been his year, but I'm guessing the whole mess has just turned him off at this point.
elleng
(131,238 posts)maybe with ulterior motives or just bad.
ariadne0614
(1,739 posts)It would be interesting to know how deep it goes beyond DU. He would be formidable in these times, and tRumps absurdity and stupidity would be amplified in contrast.
elleng
(131,238 posts)There's a FB group, gathered after Wes' sites taken down.