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Will the Former General Give Bush a Boost? WASHINGTON, D.C.—Some People say Wesley Clark is a Clinton stooge. Pretty soon they're going to be saying he's a tool for the Bush campaign. Clark embodies just about everything the right wing hates, and he will no doubt become another ingredient in the president's re-election strategy to fire up the conservative base. Clark is despised by various elements in the military as a grandstander. His battle tactics in Kosovo are questioned by numerous critics on both the right and left: he kept American casualties low by raining bombs randomly from 30,000 feet...

The handlers, donors, endorsers and student supporters who had gathered to see former General Wesley Clark speak on Oct. 14 at Hunter College held their breath after one of several high-school students standing behind the candidate suddenly fainted onto the auditorium stage. Mr.Clark, who is still a very new candidate, stopped his speech, joined the crowd surrounding the unconscious teenager and tried to help at one point by loosening the victim’s belt. After an uneasy minute, and with emergency workers now seeing to the collapsed student, Mr. Clark turned back to the podium. "I think he’s going to be O.K.,"...

Bill and Hillary who? It's no secret that Democrat Wesley Clark has put veterans of the Clinton political circle - from former White House aides to political operatives - in marquee positions on his campaign team. But yesterday, Clark appeared to put some distance between himself and the stamp of the former First Couple, saying they have no role in his campaign. He also left open what role, if any, the Clintons might play if he wins the Democratic nomination. "They are very, very prominent, very smart, very experienced political leaders," he said. "They've been helpful to me. But in...

Democratic presidential hopeful Wesley Clark didn’t show up at his recent Washington fundraiser, though enough of his supporters did to make it interesting. Former Clinton White House adviser Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) was there. So was surprise guest former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry (D). The event was organized by Mora Segal, daughter of Eli Segal, Clark’s new campaign chairman. Like most Clark gatherings, the atmospherics were distinctly Clintonian, right down to a couple of kissing gay guys. Segal, past director of AmeriCorps, is just one of several top Clintonites involved in Clark’s campaign. Richard Sklar, Clinton’s ambassador to the United...

Sealed, Signed, and Undelivered By The Prowler Published 10/10/2003 12:05:00 AM THE BIGGEST LIAR OF THEM ALL Gov. Gray Davis may not have been the biggest loser in the California recall. Some Democratic National Committee members are calling for DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe to explain his odd behavior in the days leading up to Tuesday's election debacle. McAuliffe appeared on cable news channels and gave print interviews citing DNC internal polling data that showed the recall election too close to call. He also claimed that he had numbers indicating Democrats would emerge unscathed from the election. He also claimed that...

PHOENIX, Oct. 10 — Gen. Wesley K. Clark announced a raft of top appointments to his presidential campaign on Friday, just days after simmering tensions inside the fledgling organization led to the resignation of his campaign manager. Several of the new appointees are veterans of the Clinton administration. And the campaign has entered discussions with former Vice President Al Gore's campaign spokesman, Chris Lehane, who recently left the presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. Clark campaign officials said that with the appointments, the campaign was setting firm lines of authority and would become a more stable operation,...

Gen. Wesley Clark’s late-starting presidential campaign shifted into second gear last week with a stop at the Citadel, where he questioned the Bush administration’s Iraq policy and laid claim to being the Democrats’ peace candidate. But the retired NATO supreme commander did little to dispel suspicion that his run for the White House is being stage-managed by former President Bill Clinton for the benefit of his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), both of whom deny it. “Force is best used as a last resort,” Clark told an audience of some 250 cadets at the South Carolina military college, “and...

The lraq-Money 3-Step You can dress up the Democratic Party in whatever uniform you want, it still doesn't have a strategy for the defining challenge of our time. A WEEK into his presidential bid, Wesley Clark looks less like the Democrats' solution than another symptom of their basic problem. That problem is that much of the Democratic base still doesn't take national security seriously. Sure, Democrats know that most Americans don't trust the party to keep them safe. But they deny that this distrust has anything to do with prevailing Democratic ideology. The party, they reassure themselves, merely needs...

    Gen. Shelton shocks Celebrity Forum, says he won't support Clark for president By Joan Garvin / Town Crier Correspondent "What do you think of General Wesley Clark and would you support him as a presidential candidate," was the question put to him by moderator Dick Henning, assuming that all military men stood in support of each other. General Shelton took a drink of water and Henning said, "I noticed you took a drink on that one!" "That question makes me wish it were vodka," said Shelton. "I've known Wes for a long time. I will tell you...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Ahmed Korei, Yasser Arafat's nominee for Palestinian prime minister, said on Monday he would accept the post only with U.S. and European guarantees of support and Israel's commitment to ease its military crackdown. Arafat chose Korei, the parliamentary speaker, to replace Mahmoud Abbas, who resigned on Saturday complaining that the Palestinian president and Israel had obstructed his peace efforts and the United States had not given him enough backing. Korei's credentials as a highly regarded moderate and an architect of the 1993 interim Oslo peace accords with Israel could endear him to the United States and could...

Wed Sep 3, 7:35 AM ET Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, locked in a power struggle with President Yasser Arafat, will tell parliament on September 4, 2003 he will quit unless he wins authority to take key peace steps, a Palestinian minister said on Sept. 3. Abbas (L) and Arafat are shown at Friday prayers in Arafat's headquarter in Ramallah August 22. (Omar Rashidi/Palestinian Authority via /Reuters)

So several reporters (especially the WorldNetDaily loon, of all people) demanded to know why Queen Helen was not allowed to spew last night, and Ari gave the exact, factual answer: They were looking for REPORTERS last night, not columnists.But more importantly, Ari himself did not call on The Old Hag today! Was he intentionally snubbing her? Or did she stay home and pout like a little girl instead of coming in to work today?

Brian Kilmeade is in Kuwait. This is very touching, because he is had a soldier say hi to his wife and kids, and because the guy was so choked up, he could barely get through the sports afterwards. Looks like they are going to have another Joe Military segment again today. Brian interviewed a Dentist, and they showed a sock puppet.

Bad Lands, Bad Votes By Byron York   According to the testimony of dozens of South Dakotans, the DNC's out-of-state attorneys engaged in illegal electioneering, pressured poll workers to accept questionable ballots, and forced polling places in a heavily Democratic area to stay open for an hour past their previously-announced closing time. In addition, the testimony contains evidence of people being allowed to vote with little or no identification, of incorrectly marked ballots being counted as Democratic votes, of absentee ballots being counted without proper signatures, and, most serious of all, of voters who were paid to cast their...

MIDI - LAST KISS In his high chair he's atop phone books His RAT colleagues are scum and crooks And come November they are fearing their doom It's time our president makes little Tommy go to his room He would do anything that he had to do Without his power, his life's through Whoppers he tells…all the time Just like Jon Lovitz still in his prime Slimy, indeed…that's the rep he has made Insects like him, we spray with Raid To summarize, well this is it The guy is such a sock puppet Oh where or where's Tommy's tax...