Should we fear Candidate Clark?

NBC5.com ^ | 9/16/03

[gulfwarvet]

Clark was raised as a Baptist (he converted to Catholicism during Vietnam), and attended the local public schools. Clark has said he was influenced as a young man by a World War II veteran, Jimmy Miller, who coached swimming at a local Boys Club.

Clark was first in his class as a 1966 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point in New York. After a brief stint working for a national poverty program in New York City, Clark studied at Oxford University in London, where he was a Rhodes Scholar -- an honor he shares with a fellow Arkansan who ran for president, Bill Clinton. Clark was at Oxford from 1966 to 1968, and earned a master's degree in philosophy, politics and economics.

After graduating from West Point, Clark entered the United States Army, where he would serve for 34 years and eventually rise to the rank of four-star general. Clark served in Vietnam, where he was an infantryman in command of a mechanized company. Clark was wounded four times in Vietnam and was awarded the Purple Heart and Silver Star.

[michaelt]

In the lead in to the Fox News Contributors Roundtable on Special Report, Brit Hume showed some tape of Clark coming out of a TV studio after being interviewed on one of the Sunday shows. I guess this happened last winter, there was snow on the ground.

He was asked by reporters, who are always there to catch the guests as they leave, if he would answer some questions.

He got on his cell phone and asked the person on the other end of the line if he should stay and answer questions.

(Does anyone know who he called, or any of the other details?)

He was apparently told not to answer questions, so he told the reporters that he wouldn't, and he left.

Apparently this caused a bit of a buzz when it happened, but somehow I missed it then, and I won't forget it now.

[old school]

Honorable service in the armed forces of our country, and awards of medals for valor are all admirable qualities. However, it doesn't necessarily follow that these honorable people are good candidates for political leadership! More than the candidate himself, I would fear the electorate, who would elect a person based solely on their military record!

[JOE6PAK]

Hillary needs military cred on the ticket..

She must have some hot FBI files or shocking poloroids!

[ErnBatavia]

wounded 4 times in Vietnam, and awarded the Purple Heart and Silver Star

This former Marine wants some details....Purple Hearts in Vietnam could come, literally, from a hangnail which happened to smart during a shelling (hence, our terminology "idiots ribbon"); and the Army gave out Bronze Stars - one step below the Silver Star - to just about anybody who fired a weapon at the Vietcong. (...betting here that the bar for a Silver Star is a tad bit lower than the Marine Corps - just a guess, of course!)

[jocko12]

O BOY ANOTHER DWARF.

[Ron in Acreage]

re 21 post... He was calling CNN, his employer to get permission to appear on another network. They said no since he was on CNNs payroll.

[old school]

Aw, c'mon, he had to get hit at least one of those times!

[Ron in Acreage]

The military loathing, far left, america haters will decide the primaries for the dems. Dean will still win. Clark is going nowhere. The left consider him a baby killer for Vietnam service and a war monger for overseeing Kosovo bombings.

[G-dzilla]

What's gonna be very interesting is if Col. David Hackworth surfaces again. He wrote some absolutely scathing pieces about "Clinton's general" for WorldNetDaily during the Kosovo adventure.

[woofie]

I didnt think Dems like the military

[LibWhacker]

He's a creep. Lest we forget. I wouldn't trust a man who accepts medals he doesn't deserve -- particularly when it appears he personally arranged not only to receive the medal, but to receive the first one minted.

Who was that general (IIRC, he was a general) who committed suicide a few years ago over the flap surrounding a medal he may not have deserved to get? Forgot his name. That poor guy commits suicide. Clark runs for president.

Shows how strong the 'rats' sense of honor is.

[blastdad51]

The Brits call him the Perfumed Prince. Do a google search on that and read all the dirt on the goofball.

Arrogant and incompetant, hell that should make him the Dem frontrunner in no time!!.

[pepsionice]

I think this middle-east think tank in Canada...is Larry's bar on 5th street in Vancouver. I have been there and they often discuss worldly events in the early hours of the morning...with a Canadian brew of course. Perhaps Clark showed up at bar and became a local member of the 'think-drink' crew?

[Soliton]

Then Criticize his connection with Stephens Inc where he was on the board until last Feb. In case you forget who Stephens Inc is:

From USAToday 1997

WASHINGTON - Sometimes two or three times a week, John Huang crossed the street from his Commerce Department office to make calls and pick up faxes at an investment firm with ties to his former Indonesian employer, senators were told Thursday.

The testimony by a former secretary at the Washington office of Stephens Inc. brought a torrent of questions from senators about why Huang made frequent use of a spare office at the investment firm. But explanations were elusive.

Republicans trying to determine whether the former government official and Democratic Party fund-raiser was a spy tried to put a sinister cast on Huang's visits. Democrats said the evidence proved nothing.

"These visits I find very curious, but I can't conclude much more," said Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn.

[judywillow]

First in his class at West Point, wounded 4 times in Vietnam, and awarded the Purple Heart and Silver Star! What are our talking points on why Bush is a better president than this guy would be?...

I'd start with the fact that W isn't a psychopathic baby-killer and go from there. I might even have adds on television showing children's choruses singing something like:

Wesley hates the little children,
all the little children of the world.
Red and yellow, black and white,
Wesley kills them all on sight...

followed or interspersed with scenes from Waco and Yugoslavia. You don't have to look terribly hard to find some of these kinds of pictures on the web. Try doing google searches on the names 'Milica Rakic' and 'Sanja Milenkovic' for instance and look at some of what turns up.

[dfwgator]

The left consider him a baby killer for Vietnam service and a war monger for overseeing Kosovo bombings.

The left loved Kosovo, it was a war that they perceived wasn't necessarily for our own gain, but to solve a humanitarian problem. Did you see any lefties (except for those nuts at ANSWER) protest Kosovo? Tony Blair called Kosovo the first "Progressive War."

[philetus]

If he's a polititian, yes.
If he's running for office, yes.
If he makes promises, yes.

Polititians don't listen to or obey their constituants orders anymore.

I don't believe any polititian is going to make a change.