This putz makes Ralph Smith look like a brilliant tactician.
Posted on 02/16/2003 10:12:18 PM PST by Pokey78
DEMOCRAT VICE GENERAL
Ret. General Wesley Clark had his political coming out party on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, slamming the Bush Administration's Iraq and war on terrorism, and essentially taking the side of NATO allies who are balking at joining the coalition to take down Saddam Hussein and his totalitarian regime.
Clark is mulling a run for president at the urging of the Arkansas Democratic Party, which has been pushing him to travel to Iowa and New Hampshire for months. Clark is expected in New Hampshire within the week to meet with Democratic Party faithful.
After watching Clark on TV on Sunday, DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe was said by associates to be calling all over Washington and elsewhere touting Clark as a sure-fire winner for Democrats. "He's going to be our Colin Powell," says a gushing DNC staffer. "He's our Schwartzkopf. What voter wouldn't listen to him and then feel more comfortable voting for a Democrat over Bush and his team? This guy solves all the problems about doubts we can handle national security issues."
Party people doubt Clark can successfully run for president, but already there is DNC spinning that Clark is almost assuredly a natural "short list" leader for Vice President and will be talked up constantly for a high profile role in any Democratic White House.
Even with snow tumbling down in Washington on Sunday morning, campaign advisers for Sen. John Kerry and Rep. Dick Gephardt were looking for ways to get Clark speaking about the security issues and failings of the Bush team under their banners. But Clark most likely won't allow himself to be used as a pawn.
He's already spoken extensively to former President Clinton about how to play the political game, and he didn't get to his position in the military without knowing how to play that game well, already.
Rather, Clark will most likely begin appearing in Washington and elsewhere at the behest of the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate and on behalf of the DNC at appropriate events where his expertise seems a natural fit.
"We have to use him carefully," says the DNC source. "We don't want him to appear too politically ambitious, too political. If he sticks his neck out too far, the American people might view him as simply another politician. We can't afford that if we want him to help us in 2004."
HEINZ CATCHUP
Even some Democrats are razzing Sen. John Kerry about his wife's decision to go by Teresa Heinz Kerry, even though she has never legally changed her name. The widow of former Pennsylvania Sen. John Heinz has always gone by Teresa Heinz, and has never used Kerry's name.
"It's kind of like Hillary Clinton, isn't it?" said one Democratic leadership staffer. "Didn't she not use Clinton's name for a while, then tacked it on because it was politically necessary?" (Who can remember? Who cares? But someone did once author a valentine to her entitled The Seduction of Hillary Rodham.)
Kerry people are shooting back that other Democratic spouses have done similar things for political reasons. A Kerry staffer pointed the Prowler to John Edwards's wife, who used her maiden name for a number of years. But Elizabeth Edwards was a practicing attorney in her own right, and she changed to her married name after the death of the couple's older son, and well before Edwards decided to enter the political arena. One thing is for sure, though. Be it Teresa Heinz or Teresa Heinz Kerry, you know she'll never go by Terry Kerry.
LOL.....And the list of delusional Rats continues to grow.
March 1999 secretary of State Madeleine (Halfbrite) Albright invited terrorist KLA political leader Hashim Thaqi, who heads an underground provisional government within Kosovo, to Washington after his movement signed the U.S. drafted ultimatum called the Rambouillet International Peace Plan for the province. Also, it was revealed by ‘unidentified sources with the NATO high command, that General Wesley Clark flew secretly to France during the talks in February to brief Thaqi on NATO's plans for ensuring security in the province after a peace accord is forced on the parties. In a tremendous breach of security, KLA leaders were among Kosovo peace delegates treated to a visit to alliance military headquarters in Mons, Belgium, in mid-March.
NATO's ‘supreme' commander, U.S. Army Gen. Wesley Clark, summoned before a congressional committee to report on Kosovo. The General exhibits his prima donna mentality as aids dust off his chair, adjust the lighting and microphone before Wesley makes his grand entrance. He reports that Serb forces appear poised to resume fighting in Kosovo on a "very large scale" if there is no peace agreement.
July 27, 1999 - General Wesley Clark was abruptly and unexpectedly told that his tenure as the NATO commander would be terminated as of April 2000. Air Force General Joseph Ralston will replace Clark. As more of the truth concerning the NATO assault against Yugoslavia becomes known, it becomes clearer that the war was terribly managed (and a total failure as policy).
General Wesley K. Clark - Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, described by those in the know as a vain, pompous, 'brown-noser.' Clinton's hand picked man for NATO duty in spite of the fact that his promotion had to be "arranged" by letting him win the Nevada 'war games' necessary for his promotion. "The poster child for everything that is wrong with the 'GO (general officer) corps'" is how one military career officer described him.
Clark's ONLY qualification - He's from Arkansas and a 'Friend of Bill' during the Mena years.
Pristina Air Base.
This putz makes Ralph Smith look like a brilliant tactician.
The KINDEST thing that can be said of this clown, is that he is a Clinton Perfumed Prince.....
Clark is actually a dick headed puppet, with Clinton's hand stuffed up his a$$ pulling the strings..
To hear Clark speak is to hear either Clinton - or a brain fart..or both.....being pretty much the same..
Semper Fi
Posted on 02/13/2003 5:31 AM PST by DoughtyOne
I'd bet my house that it was a John Edwards staffer who said this.
He's going to look really foolish after we stomp the Republican Guard and eliminate Saddam.
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Will we see her in the political mix?
Just wondering.
Regards,
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