Moderate Independent (5-17-04) Clark As VP

It mentions some of the others who are being considered for VP, and how Clark has steadily gained ground. I really hope Kerry is smart and picks Clark. Besides all his other positives, Clark can bring respect back to the military and the U.S.

http://www.moderateindependent.com/v2i4poll.htm

I sort of liked Clark as a VP choice (Graham was my #1), but you're point about cleaning up the military resonates.

Put in a four star general as VP, promiss to redirect and clean up our military...

I think that everyday that goes by where we hear about misconduct in the US military will add weight to the Clark for VP quest.

I picked Kerry in 2002 and Kerry/Clark in summer 2003. Yippppeeeee !

I just know we will whip Bush/Cheney with this ticket.

Just so it is not true that it was Clark spreading rumors about Kerry having an "intern problem". I would think if that is true that I would cause Kerry to look elsewhere.

I am a big fan of either Clark or Edwards.

http://campaigndesk.org/

scroll down to:

"Echo Chamber
The Drudge Report: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Back in February, Matt Drudge wrote an undocumented story claiming that one of John Kerry's interns had fled the country at the candidate's request, just as Kerry was fighting off a "media probe of recent alleged infidelity." In the piece, Drudge claimed that Wesley Clark had told a group of reporters that "Kerry will implode over an intern issue" in an off-the-record conversation.

The Kerry intern story turned out to be bogus, as did the claim that Clark had spread the rumor....."

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

When the prisoner abuse scandal broke, again and again it was Clark - not Cleland - who Kerry and the Democrats turned to. Clark delivered the Democrats' Saturday radio address, with the prisoner abuse scandal as the central topic. The next day, Clark was tagged to appear on NBC's Face The Nation to tackle the topic. And just a few days later, Clark and Kerry stood arm in arm in the battleground state of Arkansas, with Clark again playing the heavy in taking the Bush administration to task over the prisoner abuse scandal.

Clark, more than anyone else, represents the American military at its best, and is a man who has shown he knows how to plan things - and execute them - correctly. With Clark as VP, the Kerry ticket will be able to directly contrast the right way and the wrong way to deal with horrible dictators: the successful, effective way Clark dealt with Serbian butcher Slobodan Milosevic vs. the mess President Bush has created with his unilateral approach to dealing with Saddam Hussein.

In addition to this, Clark is a southerner who hails from a winnable battleground state - former President Clinton's home of Arkansas - and who formerly leaned Republican, having voted for Reagan and Bush, Sr in previous elections. While the media is gushing over how a Kerry/McCain ticket could unify the country and would be the Democratic "Dream Team," a Kerry/Clark ticket would bring the upside for the candidate without the downside, bringing in someone who has voted on both sides of the aisle but doesn't bring the anti-abortion and hard core conservative streak McCain does on certain issues. And Clark's military experience is far more relevant to the current situation than McCain's.


AND...He will be on C-SPAN'S Washington Journal tomorrow morning at 9:30 Eastern/8:30 Central. He will be on to discuss the War in Iraq.

It is my hope that either he or John Edwards is added to the ticket.