The Little Brown Reader: Democrats line up Gen Wesley Clark as their best hope

August 30, 2003

Democrats line up Gen Wesley Clark as their best hope

I said earlier that Clark would be a better choice than Dean for Democrats. (I can't link to it right now because the LBR archives don't seem to be cooperating). I'll stick with that assertion.

Telegraph | News | Democrats line up Gen Wesley Clark as their best hope of winning against Bush

By Julian Coman in Washington
(Filed: 24/08/2003)

In this era of the War on Terrorism, senior Democrats have decided that the best - possibly the only - way to beat George W Bush in the 2004 presidential elections is to put up a soldier against him.

A retired general, Wesley Clark, the supreme commander of Nato during its successful campaign in Kosovo, is widely expected to announce his candidacy for the White House in the next few days, backed by powerful members of the United States Congress.

In an open field, where none of the nine current Democrat candidates has established a clear lead, a late entry by Gen Clark would have an electrifying effect. The Vietnam veteran has never stood for elected office. Since his retirement, however, he has become a familiar face on CNN television, frequently criticising President Bush's policies on Iraq.

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Comments

Did Gen. Wesley Clark obtain Israel's approval for his presidency first?

As many of us do know that if Israel does not approve of him as a president for the US. then he won't even dream of it.

Posted by: BRIAN YOVLAVSKY at September 12, 2003 07:55 PM

Where does Wesly Clark stand on homeschooling?

Posted by: susan schantz at October 2, 2003 06:02 PM

“I was fighting [Bush’s] reckless economic strategy while Wes Clark was working to forward the Republican agenda by raising money for the Republican Party,” Lieberman said.
In the 2001 speech, delivered to a Republican group in Arkansas, Clark lavishly praised Bush and much of his senior staff.
“I’m very glad we’ve got the great team in office, men like Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Paul O’Neill — people I know very well — our president, George W. Bush,” Clark said in the speech, a videotape of which was circulating this week. “We need them there, because we’ve got some tough challenges ahead in Europe.”

Posted by: Peter Lipton at October 4, 2003 03:58 PM