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No More Wesley Clark to Kick Around
WSJ: Political Diary ^ | July 08, 2008 | John Fund

Posted on 07/08/2008 4:56:36 AM PDT by Uncle Ralph

It looks as if Wesley Clark is waving the white flag -- sort of -- in an attempt to avoid more discussion of his remarks on "Face the Nation" a week ago suggesting that John McCain's military experience didn't at all qualify him to be president. When the former general and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate was criticized for those remarks, he dug in and defended them. Then members of his own party begged him to get off center stage. "On a scale of 1 to 10, Clark's words were a 10 in terms of unhelpfulness," a prominent Democratic consultant told Politico.com.

So Mr. Clark is suddenly unavailable to the media. An aide says he is "moving on" ...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; democratparty; democrats; electionpresident; elections; johnfund; nobama08; obama; weasleyclark; wesleyclark
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1 posted on 07/08/2008 4:56:36 AM PDT by Uncle Ralph
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To: Uncle Ralph

Weasley fell on his sword.


2 posted on 07/08/2008 4:58:37 AM PDT by A. Morgan (VOTE FOR A LIBERAL N' WE'LL BE UP TO OUR NECKS IN ILLEGALS and OUTA' GAS!)
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To: Uncle Ralph

Clark reminds me of some mad scientist in a movie who ends up with a gun in his mouth.


3 posted on 07/08/2008 5:01:21 AM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: A. Morgan
When you are so incompetent that a weasel like Slick Willie fires your ass you should know when to go into hiding.
4 posted on 07/08/2008 5:01:40 AM PDT by snowman1
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To: A. Morgan
New game: Complete the thought. Weasely Clark is unavailable because he:
  1. Fell on his sword
  2. Stepped on his Murtha
  3. .....

5 posted on 07/08/2008 5:02:27 AM PDT by Dilbert56 (Harry Reid, D-Nev.: "We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.")
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To: A. Morgan

...more like he was thrown on it.


6 posted on 07/08/2008 5:02:30 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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I am no fan of John McCain politically, but as far as I am concerned, Generalissimo Wesley Clark can go to hell.


7 posted on 07/08/2008 5:05:01 AM PDT by Long Island Pete
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To: Uncle Ralph

Well now, Randy Beers, Charlie “You make it, we take it” Rangel and a few others Dhimmicrats also attacked McCain that week, only Clark had the “bad luck” to do so on TV.

So one more Dhimmi joins the Obamao’s “Under the Bus Brigade” think of it as Obamao traded out his Granny for Clark...


8 posted on 07/08/2008 5:06:17 AM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Is 51/ Heller vindicates GWB...armatismi is libertismi)
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To: Uncle Ralph
Obama, however, has not gone that far. He said Monday it was “very clear” Clark’s “remarks don’t reflect my beliefs.”

He's not the Wesley Clark I use to know... Under the bus you go!


9 posted on 07/08/2008 5:06:35 AM PDT by avacado
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To: Long Island Pete

Things are bad enough down there already, they don’t want him.


10 posted on 07/08/2008 5:09:10 AM PDT by Radl
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To: Uncle Ralph

Alas, poor Weasley! I knew him.

A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! ‘a pour’d a flagon
of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull, sir, was, Sir
Weasley’s skull, the Obama’s jester.


11 posted on 07/08/2008 5:09:30 AM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: avacado
Dear Hillary:

Thanks for the script. I used them on a show the other day....and really gave it to McCain.

Regards, Wes

12 posted on 07/08/2008 5:10:39 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: Uncle Ralph

I predict that Weasely will be back in some capacity in an Obama administration. Maybe as a military advisor or on the Joint Chiefs.


13 posted on 07/08/2008 5:10:47 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Uncle Ralph
"On a scale of 1 to 10, Clark's words were a 10 in terms of unhelpfulness," a prominent Democratic consultant told Politico.com.

I thought those people were supposed to be smart.

14 posted on 07/08/2008 5:12:16 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Without the second, the rest are just politicians' BS.)
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To: Uncle Ralph

15 posted on 07/08/2008 5:13:02 AM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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To: Dilbert56

3...Dove under the bus.


16 posted on 07/08/2008 5:13:36 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: Uncle Ralph

Bubba took over for Clark with his ugly rhetoric about prisoners of war.

Seems bubba is always willing to do the dirty work. He’s so used to being in the slime it doesn’t bother him a bit.


17 posted on 07/08/2008 5:14:02 AM PDT by Carley
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To: Dilbert56
New game: Complete the thought. Weasely Clark is unavailable because he:

Fell on his sword

Stepped on his Murtha

Received an offer he couldn't refuse

18 posted on 07/08/2008 5:14:39 AM PDT by CPOSharky (Blaming CO2 for global warming is like blaming your thermometer for your kid's fever.)
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To: Uncle Ralph
So Mr. Clark is suddenly unavailable to the media.

current location: under bus.

19 posted on 07/08/2008 5:15:10 AM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: Uncle Ralph

Is he a “don’t ask” or a “don’t tell? I’m so confused.


20 posted on 07/08/2008 5:15:19 AM PDT by BruceysMom ( My heart is in Baggs)
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To: Uncle Ralph

buh bye


21 posted on 07/08/2008 5:16:30 AM PDT by nuconvert (Obama - Preferred by 4 out of 5 Dictators & Terrorists)
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To: Uncle Ralph

Nobody ever listened to this bed-wetting, hand-wringing punk anyway. Goodbye to bad rubbish. How did the a$$hole become a “general” ?...pay somebody off ?


22 posted on 07/08/2008 5:16:56 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: Uncle Ralph

It’s hard to believe he attained the rank of general, considering he has such a knack for saying the wrong thing at the wrong.


23 posted on 07/08/2008 5:17:45 AM PDT by randita
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To: A. Morgan

Just Hillary’s way of trying to be helpful...


24 posted on 07/08/2008 5:18:12 AM PDT by johnny7 ("Duck I says... ")
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To: avacado
He's not the Wesley Clark I use to know... Under the bus you go!

It's getting rather crowded under there. Obama made need more ground clearance than the pic indicates.

25 posted on 07/08/2008 5:27:11 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: JohnLongIsland

Perfect!

Wesley’s new callsign is “General Halftrack.”


26 posted on 07/08/2008 5:30:12 AM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: Uncle Ralph

27 posted on 07/08/2008 5:30:14 AM PDT by Bassfire (freepin with a smile)
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To: Long Island Pete

Hey, wait, we have to see how he does getting tossed out of a jet fighter at 30,000 feet, then getting both arms and his shoulders broken, and, of course, undertaking several serious torture sessions ~ I’ve been signed up for that part for years. Have some great items in mind too!


28 posted on 07/08/2008 5:30:28 AM PDT by muawiyah (We need a "Gastank For America" to win back Congress)
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To: Uncle Ralph

Liberal Generals never die,
They just go into hiding like cowards!


29 posted on 07/08/2008 5:30:48 AM PDT by TonyM (E)
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To: Uncle Ralph

The end — I hope — of a thoroughly hated Clinton suck-up who became a general through epic ass-kissing. He is known universally among the military as The Weasel.


30 posted on 07/08/2008 5:32:05 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice
He is known universally among the military as The Weasel.

Not so. In some quarters, he's referred to as "the perfumed prince".

31 posted on 07/08/2008 5:41:56 AM PDT by pgyanke ("Huntered"--The act of being ignored by media and party to prevent name recognition)
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To: Uncle Ralph; All
Michael Moore endorsed Wesley Clark...and now Obama

From Michael Moore's website, September 12th, 2003:

Michael Moore to Wesley Clark: Run!
A Citizen's Appeal to a General in a Time of War (at Home)

Dear General Wesley Clark,

I've been meaning to write to you for some time. Two days after the Oscars, when I felt very alone and somewhat frightened by the level of hatred toward me for daring to suggest that we were being led into war for "fictitious reasons," one person stuck his neck out and came to my defense on national television.

And that person was you.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2003-09-12

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From Moore's website, January 14th, 2004:

I'll Be Voting For Wesley Clark / Good-Bye Mr. Bush

Many of you have written to me in the past months asking, 'Who are you going to vote for this year?'

I have decided to cast my vote in the primary for Wesley Clark. That's right, a peacenik is voting for a general. What a country!

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2004-01-14

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Michael, the "peacenik", Moore, also from his website, April 14, 2004...

"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win. Get it, Mr. Bush?"
[actual quote from Michael Moore (2004). It still appears on his website]
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2004-04-14

_________________________________________________________________

From Monday, April 21st, 2008...

My Vote's for Obama (if I could vote) ...by Michael Moore

Friends,

I don't get to vote for President this primary season. I live in Michigan. The party leaders (both here and in D.C.) couldn't get their act together, and thus our votes will not be counted.

So, if you live in Pennsylvania, can you do me a favor? Will you please cast my vote -- and yours -- on Tuesday for Senator Barack Obama?

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php

32 posted on 07/08/2008 5:43:41 AM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my FR home page)
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To: pgyanke

“Not so. In some quarters, he’s referred to as “the perfumed prince”.”

And in some quarters he is known as the Oreck.


33 posted on 07/08/2008 5:49:54 AM PDT by shaft29 (Just your typical black woman.)
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To: Carley

I was at a Republican function last night and Quinn Hillyer, editor of the American Spectator, spoke. During the Q&A he was asked to name his two favorite pols in DC and the two worse.....and his answer to the worse? “Hillary and Bill; they are thugs!” I cracked up...too too funny....and right on the money!


34 posted on 07/08/2008 5:52:47 AM PDT by BamaDi (I will close my eyes - pull the lever for McCain - because the alternative is not acceptable.)
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To: pgyanke

Probably blew his chance to be VP. Too bad, I would have liked to see him crumble in a debate with our candidate. I think he would have added nothing to an Obama ticket.


35 posted on 07/08/2008 5:55:53 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: Uncle Ralph

He and Murtha need to be reintroduced to jump school - over Iran.


36 posted on 07/08/2008 6:09:01 AM PDT by catchem (Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter.)
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To: avacado
"He's not the Wesley Clark I use to know... Under the bus you go!"

LOL!

37 posted on 07/08/2008 6:19:37 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Uncle Ralph
Obama Bus Graveyard


38 posted on 07/08/2008 6:20:01 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: catchem
He and Murtha need to be reintroduced to jump school - over Iran.

Let's add Greenspan to the drop and insure their shoots don't open.

39 posted on 07/08/2008 6:21:22 AM PDT by jws3sticks (Hillary can take a very long walk on a very short pier, anytime, and the sooner the better!)
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To: Uncle Ralph
Another Sacrificial Trial Ballooner for the obamination.

The obamination sends out his surrogates, with the carrot of cushy appointment?, to send up a trial balloon. If it gets shot down, he denies any connection and the bus people get more company.

Does the obamination really think we don't get it?

40 posted on 07/08/2008 6:21:47 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (No trees were killed in sending this message but a large number of electrons were terrible agitated)
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To: Uncle Ralph; All

Great thread. BTTT!


41 posted on 07/08/2008 6:25:28 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: COUNTrecount
Liberal democrat bus photos:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=moz2&va=hippy+bus&sz=all

42 posted on 07/08/2008 6:26:39 AM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my FR home page)
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To: COUNTrecount; All

More Liberal democrat bus photos:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=moz2&va=hippy+bus&sz=all

43 posted on 07/08/2008 6:34:44 AM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my FR home page)
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To: BamaDi

I will be doing the happy dance the day I see either or both of the bubbas in an orange jumpsuit.


44 posted on 07/08/2008 6:37:46 AM PDT by Carley
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To: COUNTrecount; All
I suspect a passerby placed the American flag there. Can't imagine a hippy doing such a thing.

More Liberal democrat bus photos:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=moz2&va=hippy+bus&sz=all

45 posted on 07/08/2008 6:37:49 AM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my FR home page)
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To: Uncle Ralph

He was a surrogate for the Obama campaign. Obama will let other Democrats do the dirty work for him, while he pretends to take the high road.


46 posted on 07/08/2008 6:43:54 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
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To: Carley

Amen to that.....and they both truly deserve to wear a set - or better yet, how about Sheriff Joe from AZ taking Bubba in custody and making him wear the pink underwear!


47 posted on 07/08/2008 6:45:09 AM PDT by BamaDi (I will close my eyes - pull the lever for McCain - because the alternative is not acceptable.)
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To: Bassfire

I want it!


48 posted on 07/08/2008 6:45:30 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
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To: GoldenPup
Nobody ever listened to this bed-wetting, hand-wringing punk anyway. Goodbye to bad rubbish. How did the a$$hole become a “general” ?...pay somebody off ?

As they say, "It's not who you know, it's who you ____."
49 posted on 07/08/2008 8:26:25 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: A. Morgan

Weasley fell on his sword.

Naw, it got it shoved up his...


50 posted on 07/08/2008 9:06:40 AM PDT by hdstmf
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