[Dr. Frank fan]

mylife:

Its the right thing to do but will it spin as Pubbies attacking a poor lil dem during an elevtion cycle?

Richard Clarke is not a Democrat.

And it is the right thing to do. But you are missing the fact that there is definite upside for Kerry to make this "challenge".

Clarke will be exposed as having lied while a member of the Bush administration.

[NYCVirago]

Richard Clarke is not a Democrat.

Sez who? He's only donated money to Democrats, and admits to voting in a Republican primary exactly once in his life -- for John McCain!

[Bob]

Richard Clarke is not a Democrat.

I wouldn't be quite so sure of that statement.

His only documented political contributions have been exclusively to 'rat candidates. His teaching partner and good friend, Rand Beers(?), is the kerry campaign's foreign policy adviser.

[cwb]

"Clarke will be exposed as having lied while a member of the Bush administration."

Ahh, how do you figure this. There is more evidence that we he said "after" he left the Bush administration was the lie. Even if, as he says, he was just supporting his boss, everything he said about Clinton is a contradiction. No one forced him to hammer Clinton. You not only have his joint congressional testimonies, you have his PBS interviews, his media interviews, his sourcing for Richard Miniters book, etc. He has a consistent record until his BOOK came out..after he left the administration.

[hobson]

Clarke will be exposed as having lied while a member of profiting from a book written to destroy the Bush administration.

There, that's better.

[Jodi]

with all due respect, I think you're assuming Clarke will be charged with perjury during his closed door testimony (is a Bush admin. official). From what I'm reading, the perjury charge will come from his testimony from Wed. (not a Bush admin. official)

[UltraKonservativen]

Why would a republican keep giving money to DEMOCRATS....?

"In 2002, while still on the Bush National Security Council (NSC), Clarke gave the legal maximum limit of $2,000 to a Democratic candidate for Congress, Steve Andreasen, who tried to unseat Republican Congressman Gil Gutknecht of Minnesota. Andreason had been director for defense policy and arms control on the Clinton NSC. In making his donations of $1,000 on July 22 and another $1,000 on Nov. 7, 2002, Clarke listed his occupation as "U.S. Government/Civil Servant," according to FEC records indexed with the Center for Responsive Politics.

Clarke maxed out again in the 2004 election cycle, donating $2,000 to another Clinton White House veteran, Jamie Metzl, who is running as a Democrat for Congress from Missouri. Metzl was a staffer on the Clinton NSC and worked for Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) as deputy staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. With that donation, made on Sept. 15, 2003, after his resignation from the Bush NSC, Clarke listed his occupation as "Self-Employed/Consultant."

FEC records show that Clarke reported no political contributions when he worked in the Clinton administration in the electoral cycles of the 1990s and 2000, when he said he was a Republican"

RINO !

[cyncooper]

Richard Clarke is not a Democrat.

And you base your statement on what?

All evidence says he is.

Clarke will be exposed as having lied while a member of the Bush administration.

No, Clarke will be exposed as lying ABOUT the Bush administration.

The lies won't be his earlier committee statements. It will be this 9/11 commission hearing where he was under oath where he lied and stabbed the Bush people in the back.

As to why Kerry said this? Because he doesn't really think there will be follow-through but he realizes it is becoming obvious Clarke's credibility has been destroyed, so being the band wagon hopper that he is, Kerry has climbed aboard with nary a thought to Clarke's work on Kerry's party's behalf. "Challenges Bush to prosecute". What a pompous ass Kerry is.