The trial balloon: Wesley Clark [Another freerepublic.com scoop]

Me

[piasa]

I didn't mean to sound so snippy, sorry about that...

Did you see what someone said about Clark's wife using a government car for business... nad the thing had been reported stolen? perhaps that's one reason he was tossed from the one command in Europe

[Balata]

His take is that Bush has changed our country with the idea of preemption and now we are going to conquer the ME just like Britain and the Ottomans. IOW, because of Bush the US is now an imperialist nation.

[capitan_refugio]

I love it when I catch typos! Shouldn't the first line of the article in your post read "RAT. General Wesley Clark" instead of "Ret. General ..."??? ;^)

[VaBthang4]

Thanks for #58.

:o)

[Howlin]

Here's an interesting one from Slate:

Is there a general in the house?

[Balata]

Simmer down friend. I know he didn't say he was a Democrate. He said he hadn't declared a party. I just posted accurate transcripts for you.

[Mo1]

Oh it's ok, like I said you were right .. I just jump the gun before reading the rest of the thread

and yes I did see that about his wife .. I remember reading something like it before, but my brain it fried at the moment and I can't remember all of it

[piasa]

If the rats would take him on, it means they are really going to try to make a run based on "agressive foreign policy" - or depending on the automatice vote response for former military types which always goes over well in Floriduh- while still keeping one of their cultivated Arkansas-Rhodes lefties in power; a dirty one who they have a huge file on, too, to keep him loyally slavish.

That's how they ran Nelson in Floriduh- he won because he was former military and an astronaut and old vets often vote on autopilot down here. The Rats have been eyeballing Kerry, too. So they are going to try to come off as more tough & patriotic than that their opponents.

The guy reeks like Scott Ritter reeks.

[VaBthang4]

;o)

[Howlin]

My gosh, look at this one:

Gen. Wesley Clark: An Army of One?

Evidently Clark is under the impression that Kosovo was a success!

[VaBthang4]

If there were no FR, or Foxnews, or Rush or Hannity then I would be concerned about the Clinton/DNC avenue of approach.

...but I am not.

We just have to keep putting the word out on who these guys are.

[Howlin]

This is going to be the fight of our lives and our country, IMO.

And as I was reading these articles, thinking to myself he's nobody and the country would never elect a general president, I remember all the whacko things that happened last year: Lautenburg, Wellstone. Stranger things have happened.

[piasa]

No kidding- it won't just be the Chinese , it will be the French, Germans and the terrorist states in the Middle East that will be pouring big bucks into the DNC this time! Heck, Clinton's already been getting a head start by sucking up to the most radical Saudis. Even after 911 he's been fishing for bucks from the bin Laden Group

[Mo1]

Oh Geez that was BORING .. LOL

But I will say .. Clark sure is full of himself

[Popof8]

PRESS RELEASE
June 21, 2000
LITTLE ROCK, AR- Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, the internationally admired leader who served
three distinguished years as NATO's supreme allied commander, Europe, has joined Little Rock-based
Stephens Group Inc. as a corporate consultant to help develop emerging-technology companies. . .
__________________________________________________________________

The Stephens Group was the money laundering firm for the Arkansas Redevelopement Bonds that were
apparently funded by drug money. Hundreds of millions of dollard were laundered through Stephens
Group. The president of the company, Jackson Stephens, was sent to prison for his drug trafficing.

Stephens Group was also tied to the BCCI scandal and was involved with the Mochtar Riady (the
Indonesian billionare who funneled foreigh donations to the Democrat Party), and the Lippo Bank and
Worthen Bank scandals.

The Rose law firm represented Stephens, Inc. and assigned two of their crack (no pun intended)
attorney's -- Hillary Clinton and Vincent Foster - to handle the Stephen's company defense.

Oh, what a tangled web!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Balata]

Evidently Clark is under the impression that Kosovo was a success!

Kosovo was not only a victory to him it was a NATO victory. He also thinks Afganistan was won with air power just like Kosovo. This guy is nuts.

[leadpenny]

Make no mistake - - it isn't "the Liberals" who are throwing this crap against the wall.... it is the Clintons themselves. I firmly believe that the plan is to so muddy the Democrat primary that no single rat will go into the convention with anything resembling a mandate or a consensus. The Clintons want turmoil, confusion, and division.

And who do you suppose will be drafted to ride to the rescue?

I agree with your take. My brother and I were discussing just that possibility yesterday while I watched the snow pile up. I would add one thing, and that is, hopefully to our advantage, Hillary can't trust her husband to truly support her efforts to get back into the White House. One of the last things he wants to do is walk behind her. Can't blame him for that.

[Mo1]

Stephens Group was also tied to the BCCI scandal and was involved with the Mochtar Riady (the Indonesian billionare who funneled foreigh donations to the Democrat Party), and the Lippo Bank and Worthen Bank scandals.

Who was it that said .. follow the money trail with Riady and you'll find where all the secrets are buried?

[HateBill]

Some more interesting information on Clark. Several years ago, the New York Times did a very long Sunday Style section piece on biracial relationships and one of the wining women (suitable for a "Lifetime" movie) told of her relationship with a fellow Washington college student who was white (she was from the Indian subcontinent) and how terribly she was treated by his right-wing Republican conservative parents. Her boyfriend? None other than the son of Wesley Clark. So Wesley Clark outed himself as a right-wing Republican to his son and his son's girlfriend but I'm sure the DU'ers (and those of that ilk) will not allow him to remain closeted forever!

I didn't clip the piece, and I doubt the Times has their Style section online -- let alone a piece from that way back -- but I wrote about it more contemporaneously on FR.

That is not to say Wesley Clark is a Republican. He only plays one when it is a convenient veneer for his prejudices and bigotry towards his son's (however liberal) "untermenschen" and "mongrel" girlfriend.

[RJayneJ]

For him to take the part of France, Germany and Belgium, and be a close personal friend of Bubbas won't endear him to the Am. public. It should put him 10 points behind. I think that the Dem party is more fractured than the media let on. They still have the Nadar faction and the Gore faction and the Clinton faction and depending on who winds up with the nomination will determine what is in Hillary's future.