Clark to enter presidential race

Yeah! I dunno, but he is definitely appealing to me. Experience or no experience.

The vetting begins. Let's see how well he stands scrutiny.

Wesley Clark is one of the nation’s most distinguished retired military officers. During his thirty-four years of service in the United States Army, he held numerous staff and command positions, rising to the rank of 4-star general. From 1997 through 2000, General Clark was NATO Supreme Allied Commander and Commander in Chief of the United States European Command. In this role, General Clark commanded Operation Allied Force, NATO’s first major combat action, which saved 1.5 million Albanians from ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.

Clark is a 1966 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point where he ranked first in his class. He holds a Master’s Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Clark is a recipient of numerous U.S. and foreign military awards, including the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and a Purple Heart, dating back to his experience fighting in Vietnam. He has received honorary Knighthoods from the British and Dutch governments and was made a commander of the French Legion of Honor. In 2000, Clark was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

Now in the private sector, Clark is chairman and CEO of Wesley K. Clark & Associates, a strategic advisory and consulting firm, serves on the boards of several private corporations and non-profit organizations, and comments regularly on politics, diplomacy and public affairs. An acclaimed public speaker and commentator for CNN, he is the author of the best-selling "Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat." Clark is also the Chairman of the Board for "Leadership for America," a non-partisan, non-profit educational organization dedicated to fostering the national dialogue about America's future.

I almost like him better for NOT being a politician.

Oh! He actually did it.

Interesting. Thanks for the info, au. (Saw it here first.)

Wesley & Clinton Hil-uva ticket?
New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
Wesley & Clinton Hil-uva ticket?
Michael R. Blood
Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

WEST POINT, N.Y. - Sen. Hillary Clinton says she's not a presidential candidate, but retired Gen. Wesley Clark's expected entry into the race is likely to start a fresh round of speculation about her White House ambitions.

A cover story in New York magazine this week touts Clark and Clinton as a Democratic Dream Team.

"I talk to him all the time," Clinton said yesterday, but she sidestepped questions about whether she had urged him to run.

"If he decides to run, I think he'll bring a lot to the campaign," she said.

The New York senator has known Clark, a fellow Democrat, for more than two decades. At a stop at the military academy yesterday, she lavished praise on the retired general's record while drubbing President Bush's policies on Iraq, the budget and emergency preparedness.

Some Democrats are convinced Clinton's star power could bring down the Bush White House, and despite her denials there is continued chatter in party circles about a possible candidacy.

Asked about conjecture that she might enter the Democratic field, Clinton said, "I've talked about this for so long, and I've said the same thing over and over again. I think I'll just leave it there."

Bush was sold as a Washington outsider and his political experience is certainly wanting considering the responsibilities of the governorship of Texas (he couldn't be called a career politician, but there's several candidates that fit that description).
Gore was a career politician and it seemed to work against him.

That's why it has to be you, Maximus...

With his credentials, he should be able to give direct answers to direct questions and not find himself on the defensive-----he is probably too honest to be a politician------it will be interesting to observe just how brilliant Gen Clark is.

It will be even more interesting to see if he has any plausible solutions to the many problems facing the president of 2005.

It may take someone with the wisdom of Solomon to undo the damage done by the present occupant of the White House and his gang of rogues.

A ticket of Clark and Clinton has been floated several times. How does that strike you?Anyone.

I would be stunned--absolutely stunned--if Hillary ran for anything in this cycle.

She's too much of a lightning rod.

Poor John Edwrads had his declaration upstaged today by the rumor of Clark's apparent candidacy. Since he doesn't register in the polling, and since he's already decided to give up his Senate seat, I see him continuing in this race to secure a place on the ticket or in the Cabinet. I don't think he'll be content to go back to the tort courts in North Carolina.

Clark, or Dean, or Kerry, with Edwards as VP for any of the three is how I see it today.

I still don't see Hitlery as accepting VP, she wants to be Queen. I would say he wants to be King with his background, wouldn't you want to be commander and chief?

I'm for whomever i can like thet will delete or extremely adjust the Patriot 1, and completely forget about Patriot 2. If you haven't read up on that one, now is the time.

I didn't vote for Bush, but I am a right leaner, the 'Big Two' party's have just about done me in, I've been looking really hard at the Libertarian stance. Trying to decide if my vote would do any good there being they are hardly visible.

I'm going to be watching every candidate close, but I pretty much have already eliminated Hillary and Dean.

what about gore for vp again? maybe he can invent something else to kick start this economy.

I am jumping on the Dean-Clark bandwagon. I think this is the most interesting and winnable ticket.

Dean has been (perhaps incorrectly) labeled with the "liberal" tag. Clark (military service and all) balances this out nicely. Clark also adds foreign policy experience.

They try to make Dean to be McGovern reincarnate as a ploy to make him less palatable to the mainstream. It won't work if no one lets it work.

Clark running makes Bush in his flyboy costume look even more the fool...

Clark has a frightening, bad military record.

Consider, if Clark is elected we would have had a sandwich of two Rhodes scholar's with a meatball in the middle.