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LOL! You won't believe the LAST paragraphs of the Wes Clark article....talk about cognitive dissonance:

But Clark said in a recent interview that his military background is proving to be a mixed blessing in the Democratic race. "If I were a Republican, it would be real easy," he said in an interview. "Republicans would say, ah, general, we had Eisenhower, we like generals. Big authority. Democrats aren't like that."

Democrats, he added, "want to look through that uniform. And they have trouble with that uniform because a lot of them marched [against the Vietnam War] and a lot of them, they're not authority oriented and the military seems like rigid authority."

Clark has little more than a month to change those perceptions and turn the promise of his candidacy into a reality.

First I've heard of that. They think pubbies like the military because of its "rigid authority"!

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Anyone have a good tip for getting tree sap out of my hair?

[Iowa Granny]

I saw General Swartzkoff (sp?) grab the flag during a speech, and speak of his love for our country. I was shocked at the site of him grabbing the flag. If it would have been anyone but him, I would have felt it to be disrespectable.

It sounds to me like someone is lifting speech material from Swartzkoff.