[gulfwarvet]

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 hope he picks Hilary for a running mate...that would sink him.

[Torie]

Isn't this the chap who admitted he lied about something recently? Other posters will remember what it was. This guy will have about as much traction as Al Haig.

[prairiebreeze]

These links from UK newspapers (Not American media of course) detail Clark's nearly disasterous and reckless orders to attack or engage Russian troops during Kosovo. Only because the British General under Clark refused to obey the orders was a major incident with the Russians avoided. Clark demonstrated that despite what appear to be impressive credentials on paper, his judgement was seriously flawed.

From the Guardian via FR: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/981521/posts

And the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/671495.stm

I also notice that the News5 article doesn't delve at all into the circumstances of Clark's EARLY and GRUDGING retirement!

I have decided that News 5's coverage isn't worth watching. Consistently anti-Bush biased. Sometimes downright nauseating.

Prairie

[icwhatudo]

I must admit I dont know much about him, just rumors/tidbits here and there:

Can someone go into detail (or dispell as BS) the following:

Gave the military hardware used at WACO

Viewed as a wacko by underlings , even transfered/promoted to move him away

Involved in the Arkansas/Stephens group/lippo/Riady stuff

Again-could all be bs, thats why Im asking. Thanks

[USNBandit]

Here is what we do to handle this wackjob. His peers in the military hate him. Soon you will see a congregation of these peers (all the way back to his High School on the Hudson days) coming out to dime him out. Should his Vietnam experience be discounted, no. His service there should be respected, but his rise to flag rank and performance there will offer much to talk about. He rose under Clinton and he will suffer for it.

[Orangedog]

The question Clark should be asking himself is should he fear having Hillary as a running mate, especially if he would win. The most dangerous place in the world for him would be in between her and the Oval Office. I wonder if the words "bullet" and "brain" have any special meaning to him?

[Doe Eyes]

What sort of country have we become when Democrats can run for President?

[Held_to_Ransom]

America seldom elects a really bright person to the office. True, Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar, but a Rhodes Scholar from Arkansas. That's a long long way from first in class at West Point.

I don't think he will go anywhere on his own, but he does present some worry if he is actually being groomed for the Vice Presidency.

[VeniVidiVici]

The only thing worse than a democrat is someone who has been in the military and is still a democrat. Something doesn't click right with those folks.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

No, we shouldn't fear Clark. But we should be very afraid of the machine that puts him in the forefront. Clark is an unapologetic communist. Look him up in Google...read the comments he's made over the years.

[Bedford Forrest]

What rank did the perfumed pimp hold when his Arkie white trash pal from Oxf#g was first elected with a 47% plurality [approx 18% of the eligible voters]? The depths of the little Klintonista poodle's banal amorality will emerge very soon now, like that little critter popping out of the astronaut's chest in Ridley Scott's prescient metaphor for that most lethal and evil political parasite, the Arkie white trash pal from Oxf#g - small world, isn't it? But of course the eternal question remains, who is running these sordid little sock puppets?

[ALOHA RONNIE]

Gen. CLARK =

Presidential Candidate HILLARY's Military Front Man

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.."IS it SAFE?" = HILLARY on Senate Armed Services Committee..

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=629

[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!

[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!)

[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.

[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!!.

[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.

[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.