NYT: Wes Clark, moving up in Veepstakes!

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POLITICAL POINTS | 5.13 12:05 PM
Our Next Contestant Is a Retired General From Arkansas ...
By JODI WILGOREN

Most of Senator John Kerry's vice presidential selection process is a tightly guarded secret, barely whispered about among even senior staff members at his Washington headquarters. But in the very public beauty contest taking place out on the campaign trail, retired Gen.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/trail/index.html

Wesley K. Clark was the latest to stride down the runway.

How better to audition for the role of attack dog, after all, than to try out the attack?

"Can you imagine having a president who actually answered the country's call and went to war when our country needed him as a young man?" General Clark asked several hundred people who turned up to greet the candidate for a rally at the airport in Little Rock, Ark., on Wednesday.

"When he was a young man, he could have had an easy life, he could have worn cowboy boots, he could have put his feet up on the desk," General Clark, who challenged Mr. Kerry for the Democratic presidential nomination, added in a pointed reference to President Bush. "John Kerry, he didn't manage a professional sports team using some of his daddy's name."

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If we want a ticket that shoves the national security issue up the neocons' collective arse, Kerry/Clark is IT.
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Funny how two oil men on the 2000 ticket didn't scare the same people who shudder about Kerry and Clark.

Where has this Wilgoren been? Clark has been attacking Bush & Co for months. He despises Bush and everything he stands for.

Clark genuinely respects John Kerry, but I bet he'd be campaigning as hard for any of 'em (with maybe one exception), just to do all he can to get Bush out of office. And I think he actually enjoys going on the attack--if anything, he's had to appear more restrained and moderate in representing Kerry than he ever was in his own campaign.

Clark is my choice as well, being a rabid Clarkie myself. But all that, "he's not a real Democrat" bullshit is big with the Boys and Girls Club, also known as Kerry's best friends like Jeanne "Softball" Shaheen (for those of you who remember her floperoo on Tweety's show) and many others in his inner circle.

I see Kerry going with an establishment Democrat, which, other than Edwards, would be an inferior choice to Wes, IMHO.

Clark is the strongest choice, Rove would shit himself!

Wes is the best!

Just hope Kerry makes the right decision; it is Soooooo important.

WHORE. I can just hear the contempt dripping
out of her keyboard. (And to think I didn't
think anybody could be worse than Richard Berke,
the NYT whore from 2000.)

"He (Kerry) could have worn cowboy boots"
A real dig at Bush!
Very cleaver and a good example of how Clark can sneak in a poison dart with a smile and they are unaware they been had.
Go Sly Fox Go!

Kerry fought for the Feudal Lords of Wall Street then, like he will if elected President. If he was really a Patriot then, he would have refused to go to Vietnam and fight. He should have refused to be drafted, gone to jail for refusing to draft and made a statement, a la that former Massachusetts resident, Henry David Thoreu, that the war was wrong and immoral. That would have taken courage, but of course, it would have hampered his political aspirations.

Of course, Clark thought that the Vietnam war was a just war, massacres and all.

But we need a more seasoned politician

Kerry is a seasoned politician. Clark is a brilliant tactician and we need him.

No, didn't think so!

You're entitled to your beliefs, but I think answering your nation's call to go to war is a noble thing. Also, by coming home to oppose the war after fighting in it gave John Kerry considerably more credibility than anyone who chose not to go.

Never minces his words. <sigh> :loveya: Go Wes!