Posted on 02/12/2005 2:50:52 PM PST by Cableguy
Here's another reason why some Democrats are fretting over installing antiwar former presidential candidate Howard Dean as chair of the Democratic National Committee. He might cede national defense to the Republicans. That's the charge from associates of another former presidential candidate, former NATO boss Wes Clark. Seems the Clark and Dean teams have been warring over the future of the Democratic Party, and now that threatens to spill into the public if Dean, as expected, wins the chairmanship this Saturday. Here's the fight: Clark wants the Democrats deeply involved in foreign policy and the war, and Dean's team isn't as jazzed about that. They see domestic policy and issues like Social Security and the deficit as the keys to success. But this might be the real rub against Dean: Clark fans think the retired general will be marginalized by Dean. Chart the fight on their blogs.
Dean fans blog here: www.peopleforchange.net Clark supporters chat here: chat.forclark.com
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She got to go because she sits on the Armed Services committee, same as the rest of those I listed. I don't think they really have to answer to anyone for these trips...look at Kerry going all over Europe in January. And WE pay for it!
Howard in blood red trunks (excuseme, it appears to be actual blood!) is cheered wildly by the 13 surviving members of MoveOn.org as he stumbles over his tongue!.
Dean's corner man tonight, Al "I'm a Real Man" Gore is yelling instructions for Dean to hit below the belt,...but wait, Clark has tagged Hitlery Rotten Clinton who, while attempting to step between the ropes has entangled her bulbous thighs in a mess. Hitlery, dressed as a Scandanavian Warrior Princess, signals to her Manager, Craig Livingston, that she's ready for the TKO! What a fight!
Among other things, Clark was a Rhodes scholar from Arkansas.
He was a perfumed prince from the start, but his career really took off when he started kissing clinton's butt.
He was the head of the armored division at Fort Hood, and apparently was the guy who provided all that armor to Janet Reno so she could incinerate the children at Waco.
While running the campaign against Yugoslavia, he managed to bomb the TV station, bomb the Chinese embassy, and TWICE tried to start a war with Russia. The incident at the airfield is well known. But he also tried to sink the Russian spy ships in the Aegean that were watching the war.
Fortunately he was restrained both times. The man is not just a perfumed prince, he's also a candidate for the Caine Mutiny.
Howie...scream..... and Weasley Clark......
And this during the Clinton years. Thank God that Bush won a second term and not some liberal weeny. Why? Because now you have to be a warrior first and then a politician [read suckup] to make Flag Officer.
He was fired on the request of our allies in Kosovo because he nearly started World War III with the Russians.
That was part of it - but there was another reason which had to do with his private conduct. I've never been able to find out - but I suppose that's okay.
Too many career military types are bureaucrats in a uniform. Just one more instance where losers are carried by those around them.
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