Wes Clark for President ‘08
The time is right, the choice is right, it’s an easy decision to make: Wes Clark for President.
Clark is totally focused on helping the right people win their Senate and Congress seats this year, and he is not promoting himself, except through his actions for others. He understands the priorities and throws himself into the task at hand the way veterans have been trained to do.
Clark’s military experience will help him win the election against chicken-hawks and veterans alike.
Clark’s simple and direct manner of getting right to the heart of the matter will keep the short-attention-span media focused through the race and his term in office.
His experience with difficult situations and managing through a crisis will help us dis-entangle ourselves from Iraq and prepare for the real threats we fas as a nation because of the Bush/Cheney/Wolfowitz/Perl/Rove/Rumsfeld debacle. By the way, for those who claim Democrats don’t have a plan, Clark’s plan has been published for a long time: http://securingamerica.com/issues/iraqplan.
A large percentage of the Pentagon leadership will have no problem supporting Clark as commander in chief; and that is big. Actively fighting a reluctant military leadership is tiring even with the best administrations, having them cooperate will be hugely helpful to even the worst administration.
All those poor lads (and lasses) sent to Iraq for the wrong reasons need someone they can trust to do the right thing in office.
I really like Edwards, Richardson, and Bayh; but Clark has the experience we need now. H. Clinton is too far to the right for my tastes, heck, so is Mark Warner - though I respect both of them immensely. Gore or Kerry running again would surprise me, and frankly I like the jobs they are doing now as non-presidents. For that matter, both Clintons are doing fine without being POTUS - let them continue in those roles for now. We need everyone working hard in many, many capacities to reclaim our democracy.
Clark’s military background has given him the maturity to hold power in service to the people rather than for power’s sake. That last point is huge with the voters right now.
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on October 14th, 2006 at 11:57 am
check out my 40 page parable all about why it was such a mistake for Wes to not be the nominee in 04: http://www.geocities.com/clarksapples/UndoBush.html
on October 14th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
I totally agree with you on Wes Clark. He’s a true leader, and he leads from the front, not the rear.
The guy is stereotyped as a moderate but talks about single payer health care. That’s what we need; a liberal in moderate clothing, not the other way around!
I pray that we can take congress back in 2006, and after that I’ll be there with you in 2008 stumping for the Good General.
on October 14th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
Hillary is too far to the right? You’ve got to be kidding.
on October 15th, 2006 at 6:04 am
Hillary is too far to the right? You’ve got to be kidding.
Absolutely not, Erik. Despite an unexplainable tendancy for most moderate Republicans to paint the former first lady as a extreme leftist; she is actually pretty annoyingly conservative.
I can go on and on about the many ways she is closer to GW Bush than Chuck Hagel is, but this post and thread are supposed to be about Wes Clark, not Clinton.
I absolutely serious when I tell people she is to far to the right for me. If you like, write me off as a leftist so far to the left that in my perspective Clinton is right wing. Does not matter, we simply need Wes Clark’s leadership right now.
on October 15th, 2006 at 6:10 am
Jay, I tried to read “The Switch” from your website and all I could get was the preface. Am I missing something?
Is your parable published?
I would love to check it out.
on October 16th, 2006 at 2:08 am
you just need to click on “The Switch” …it’s highlighted in blue to indicate it’s a hyperlink. …should I state that on it?
heh. just click this: http://www.geocities.com/clarksapples/The_Switch.doc
on October 16th, 2006 at 2:10 am
you just needed to click on “The Switch.” It was highlighted in blue to indicate as such. …but you can just use this now: http://www.geocities.com/clarksapples/The_Switch.doc
on October 16th, 2006 at 3:01 pm
CLARK/EDWARDS - EDWARDS/CLARK
That is the winning ticket. Which order? I’m not positive from a Political standpoint, though Commander in Chief does sound like a great fit for Wesley Clark in my eyes and ears, but you look at both of their stances on the most important issues and then add the unbeatable combination of GENUINE Charisma and Diplomacy that oozes from both Men in absolutely, SINCERE, REAL essence. In their voice and in their eyes but, most importantly in their background and deeds and actions. There is no American but for the few fools who still insist that our current administration is doing a good job who would even imagine with the wildest of imaginations a way to invent a possible hole in the character of either of these two Men. Further, While it may not have seemed important in 2000 given the state of the Union that President Clinton (God I miss saying that) left us, but thanks to our current war profiteer in Chief, Diplomatic and Military EXPERIENCE are absolutely vital to more quickly restoring America to it’s former standing in the eyes of all the world. We NEED General Clark’s military experience, irrefutable moral character and disipline, the sort that can only be ingrained bone deep in a truly FINE Military Man and we also NEED an HONEST, empathetic Man of Edward’s character who knows his way around the Judicial system, the unfortunate Foe to be, “Big Business and the now illegally but still by Bush & Cheney, Officially empowered Corporate Entity that must have personal rights as only an individual HUMAN BEING should be guaranteed taken back from them and lastly but far from the least, John Edwards also has the impossible to deny family values that for some voters is the only quality needed for the jobs. Both have the professional and personal backgrounds and all of the lesser qualities that unfortunately too many people vote for and by those I mean, Looks, Charm and the undefinable “Likeability factor that somehow our present President FOOLED enough people into thinking he had.
Clark and Edwards have it all and it’s REAL. It’s who they ARE. Not just who they say they are. Their personal lives as we know them and their professional experience and success PROVE it.
2008 Pick the order but those are the only two names. I love Hillary and would love to fantasize about a way to have Bill Clinton back in the White House if “unofficially” but face it. This country has far too many backward anti feminists in it from not only poor rural and uneducated walks of life but just as many among the sophisticated, highly educated people here who still think a woman is not fit for anything but house work. Sadder still is the fact that some of those people are also women. Sad fact but still a fact. If Hillary get’s the Democratic nod for 2008 it’s a guaranteed win for McCain and possibly one of the even lesser candidates the Greedy Old Party will put up. He’s bowing to them now and shaming himself on a national scale just to get the nomination. Don’t forget what the Bush Machine did to impune his character and that of his family and now they have him voting in favor of TORTURE. McCain? PRO torture? Sounds like a promise has been made or a deal struck there. We MUST have an UNBEATABLE TEAM. EDWARDS/CLARK in either order is a guaranteed landslide and an absolute highway back to peace, security and economical stability.
Any doubts? Look here and read for yourself then look and listen when and wherever they appear. You’ll hear that bell or whistle or small voice inside assure you as they have me ever since 2004.
Look ‘em up: http://www.ontheissues.org/Wesley_Clark.htm AND see: http://www.ontheissues.org/John_Edwards.htm
SPREAD IT AROUND!