General Wesley K. Clark Issues Response to Speech by President Bush

General Wesley K. Clark Issues Response to Speech by President Bush

9/23/03 3:48:00 PM


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To: National Desk, Political Reporter

Contact: Clark Campaign Press Office, 501-244-9522

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- General Wesley K.
Clark (Ret.), Democratic candidate for President, made the following
statement today in response to President Bush's speech to the United
Nations:

"The President did great damage to our decades-old international
coalitions with his Iraq war policy. Now the President is asking
those same nations to help him rebuild Iraq with their money and
their troops.

"No one can be surprised that the President is having a hard time
convincing other nations to cooperate now. This demonstrates just how
badly the President has handled the Iraq situation from the start."

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Paid for by Clark for President Inc. Contributions and gifts to Clark
for President are not deductible for federal income tax purposes.


http://www.usnewswire.com/

An immediate attack. I like it!

I love Dean beating Bush over the head with a chair, then he tags Clark in to beat the Chimp senseless with a sledgehammer.

I hope Dean vs. Clark raises the standards for both candidates, and I'm sure each of them can learn a hell of a lot from each other.

But I don't think that after DEAN is done chewing up BushCo... that there is going to be much left for Clark.

But he is welcome to the scraps.

The more, the merrier :) Nothing beats a well rounded attack founded with the TRUTH...

:bounce:

You would have loved it. B-)

so long as they do say it :)

hit that one right on the nose


"No one can be surprised that the President is having a hard time
convincing other nations to cooperate now. This demonstrates just how
badly the President has handled the Iraq situation from the start."

... it is quite another to do it without any thought or attention paid to diplomacy. What goes around comes around.

person in the real White House?

flash light battery.

dead flashlight batteries.

I was leaning Dean, but I sure like the way clark knows how to attack at the appropriate time. Maybe it's his military background. Good tactics.

Maybe a clark/dean ticket?

I agree with you!

DTH

and you've got an impossible ticket to beat!

Dean/Clark!

Hawkeye-X

I am beginning to feel that Clark may be the bottled-water that's labeled "100% organic".

...about starting a flame war for complimenting one of the Democratic candidates who is trying to send Bush packing back to Crawford. Real bad.

Don

...that having both of these powerful figures in the race is a net gain for the party and all of us. Having candidates of different strengths and backgrounds who are centering on a message lends that message credibility.

Struggling hard not to be depressed at what this board has turned into over the last weeks....

with emulating Clinton's team's philosophy,mainly,never let the news cycle be complete without a response to your opponent.Sure worked for Bill.

And there's nothing constructive.

He should hire a better writer for his press releases.

Dean's rapid responses usually have more "spunk"..

In fact, Dean's rapid response to Santorum's remarks comes to mind. Well, let's just hope this was a test of Wes' rapid response system and the responses themselves gain more meat..

I don't see any benefit or obligation for Clark to start offering unsolicited advice on Iraq. This is just one one of perhaps thousands of press releases.

Especially when it comes to Clark.

I think this was a great response, very level-headed yet also biting.

DTH

...until I'm reasonably sure this is not a DLC bait-n-switch.

Clark hasn't criticised the other DLC candidates, and they haven't criticised him.

What do Kerry and Lieberman have to say about Clark? Hah.. nothing, and I think it will stay that way.

It would be such a pity for the DLC if their candidates became so unpopular that they had to send in a former REPUBLICAN camoflaged as a liberal. (Oh wait, they did.)

So what so we have from Clark:

1. Bush is bad in the M.E.

2. What he wants 100 years from now

3. Parlor-party anecdotes from Michael Moore (who refrains from endorsing Clark just yet).

4. Silence on Lieberman and Kerry

5. Silence on the Democratic Party's spinlessness and facilitation of major neo-con goals

Some people feel they've been beaten by the militaristic scare-mongers for so long, that they'll Ooze over a UNIFORM that tells them nice little sweet-nothings.

IMO, Clark has a lot to prove!

Kerry twice, one a snide comment about Clark needing his handlers to tell him what his positions are (this was right after the supposed "flip-flop" on the war), and another saying that America shouldn't have a President who needed "on-the-job" training (the first a cheap shot, the second at least an arguable point).

Lieberman slammed Clark too, either yesterday or today, although my memory is failing me on the specifics.

Other than that, I don't know how to prove a negative to you, so we'll have to agree to disagree.

DTH

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A screen name which you don't even understand or know the history of, for that matter. Regardless, it's incredibly open-minded of you. I'm sure you'll show that same open-mindedness towards Clark.

DTH

PS: Here's one link proving at least part of what I said:

The Kerry Camp: "We'll withold comment until the General's blue ribbon team of consultants and advisors decide what his position actually is."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37215-2003Sep19.html

http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4789004/22311107.html

DTH

...that you cannot explain.

I suppose in additon to assuming we're actively following your personal history, there also needs to be the assumption that DU members will not feel aggreived or offended by such self-indulgence.

I've explained it before. I'm certainly not going to explain it again just to satisfy your curiosity, especially after you've already flown off the handle so badly that you got your own post deleted.

I have my creds here. Don't really care if you believe that or not.

DTH

And may I also make a suggestion for the sake of 'creds' --

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user&saz=change_profile

DU has a way to make it nice and neat.

Which brought us Bill Clinton, a balanced budget and prosperity.

Bunch of fucking assholes!!!!!!!

Here's Kerry's response:

“The President’s rhetoric is becoming more stirring, but he has again failed to tell us exactly what role he expects the United Nations to play now and what timetable he envisions for the transfer of sovereignty to the Iraqi people. We need to move in a new direction in our relationship with the United Nations, and we need to roll-back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to pay for the $87 billion supplemental budget request the administration has presented to Congress.”

“The President wasted another opportunity to move forward and to give us details. The facts on the ground in Iraq require a concrete plan, and real and immediate leadership to involve the United Nations, and to provide real security in Iraq.”

http://www.blog.johnkerry.com/blog/archives/000271.html#more

Kerry's Plan for Iraq

http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/iraq_plan.html

Yep, Wes is okay with me, but his response was flat.

Love that "rapid response" system! And, of course, if any of Dub's people retort, "Well, General, what would YOU do about it?", all he has to say in response is something akin to, "If I were in your chair, Mr. President, none of this would've unfolded the way it did in the first place!" :D

You can tell by the way they're sniping at him the level of fear he strikes in them--and well he should! Just proves that Rush isn't the ONLY one out on their wing full of **it!

:kick:

B-)

Keep it up, Wes....

:kick:
DemEx

Shrub's cakewalk is OVER!

:nuke::nuke::nuke:

The Bush downward spiral has got to stop soon or we're all in deep doo-doo.

Even I can see that--although he made a great statement--he's inviting flak for not telling us what HE would do.

But I gotta be happy that he's fighting, not knuckling under.

his remarks were focused on the speech itself and the
trouble bush will have pulling support in. Given Chirac
kicked his ass right away, it will be fun watching. (if
it wasn't so bloody awful. God bless Iraq and the troops
while we doze our way through this)

He'd work with our international allies. And there is a solution offered, as implicit as it might be: get the damn Shrub out of the White House.

DTH

Give 'em Hell, Wes!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

the shrub.

I've started a site to hopefully help prevent the media from smearing Wesley Clark the same way they smeared Al Gore. If you want to help me fight back with facts, please contribute your superior writing, analysis, lie spotting, and knowledge to http://www.clarkmyths.com

It will be enormously appreciated.

http://www.theclarksphere.com It has countered the smears on Clark pretty well.

MzPip
:dem:

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

to DU clarkmyths com

Good site!

Oh, and kick.

Go after President Stupid!

Keep up the heat!

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But one of the advantages Clark has in this arena is that he doesn't need to use rhetorical flourishes for his points to score. His resume and gravitas do it. It's a different ball game than when another candidate says something in this situation -- they're just a politician taking jabs, in the public's eye. I would actually argue that a polished response would have been the wrong move here, as the rhetoric itself risks obscuring the credentials of the person delivering it, and makes him sound like business as usual. Clark's newness to the game can certainly be a disadvantage, but it also helps him with the public, which doesn't look kindly on politicians in general. I made a funny...

Couldn't agree more!

BASH BUSH!