Reply #78: We Met at Doug Decker's Party [View All]

It was great to meet you, your husband and your daughter. I was the trendy Asian dude. ;-)

Regrettably, I can't make that seminar, and after reading the site, I don't think I would go even if I was available. Statements like this make me roll my eyes: "Clinton maybe assures the general's Democratic primary nomination because Democrats these days are as bereft of intelligence as your local county country white trash."

From the start of his article on Clark, he starts by telling untruths. Clark was not a "lifelong voting Republican," he voted for his friend Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and for Al Gore in 2000. He campaigned for Democrats Max Cleland and Katrina Swett in 2002, and his sole donation in recent years was to Democrat Erskine Bowles, also in 2002.

The rest is a predictable series of tired smears, including more of the same "secret Republican/PNAC plant" accusations, even though he is the only candidate, to my knowledge, who has called PNAC out by name and criticized their agenda. There is also the standard, guilt-by-association smears involving various, supposedly nefarious organizations and companies (even though many of them are left-of-center).

The claims that Clark is new to pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment positions are also verifiably false. He wrote an amicus brief in the Michigan affirmative action case, he has always been an environmentalist, even during his army days, and he has always supported a woman's right to choose, again from his army days.

This author even tries to use the old Hackworth attacks on Clark, without realizing (or perhaps deliberately realizing but declining to clarify anyway) that Hackworth has since repudiated all of the bad things he said about Clark.

In short, this author is nothing new to DU, and nothing new to this Clark supporter. I'm not really interested in the paranoia that this author exhibits. As far as I'm concerned, Clark's positions are sincere, and he is our best chance to beat Bush.

DTH