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<p>Polls show Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark doing well as he fights for Oklahoma's 40 delegates, but the state hasn't been entirely friendly territory him.</p> <p>Clark's three-car caravan was headed back from a campaign appearance in McAlester to Oklahoma City shortly after midnight Sunday when it was pulled over by a state trooper.</p>

Another wacky poll featured on Wes Clark's official campaign site -- this one asks what the Democratic ticket should be, with several where Clark isn't even an option! In order to maximize the impact we can have in a splintered field like this, I am going to ask people to vote Kucinich/Clark. What is the best Democratic ticket for '04? . Clark/Edwards . Clark/Dean . Dean/Clark · Edwards/Clark · Clark/Kerry · Clark/Kucinich · Dean/Edwards · Edwards/Dean · Kerry/Clark · Kucinich/Clark · Other (Leave Comment) Go.

This is a poll on Wesley Clark's official website: Where do you consider yourself to be on the political ideology spectrum? · Republican · Ind/Rep · Independent · Ind/Dem · Democrat · Green · Libertarian · Reform · Socialist . Other You know what to do. http://wes.forclark.com

Well, it's January, December's come and gone, so let's add up the final score: Coalition of the Willing: Saddam captured, Gadhafi neutered. The ''International Community'': Milosevic elected to Parliament in Belgrade. Yes, indeed. On the last weekend of the year, Slobo won a seat in Serbia's legislature, as did his fellow "alleged'' (as Wes Clark would say) war criminal Vojislav Seselj, and Seselj's extreme nationalist Serbian Radical Party won more seats than anybody else. But hang on a minute. Aren't Milosevic and Seselj in jail at the Hague and facing the stern justice of an ''international tribunal''? Why, yes. Slobo's...

BOSTON Dec. 16 — Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark said Tuesday that it is time to end the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and use the intelligence agents and U.S. troops there to find Osama bin Laden instead. President Bush cited Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons stockpile as a reason for going to war in Iraq, but none have been found. Clark, a retired Army general who led the NATO bombing campaign in Kosovo, has argued that bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, posed a bigger threat to the United States...

Supporters of Wesley Clark feared the worst from Thursday night's debate in Phoenix, and they got it. As expected, the retired general was asked about how he, now a Democratic presidential candidate, praised George W. Bush and his administration at a Republican fund-raiser in 2001. Neophyte politician Clark was not prepared with an adequate response. What was worse, the conqueror of Kosovo seemed diminished by the eight professional politicians debating him. Clark has mastered Bush-bashing talking points, but he seemed smaller, less fluent and less confident than his opponents. While increasing his lead against other Democrats in national polls, he...

Clark Speeches May Violate Election Law By Jim VandeHei Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, October 8, 2003; Page A06 Retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark may have violated federal election laws by discussing his presidential campaign during recent paid appearances, according to campaign finance experts. Clark, a newcomer to presidential politics, touted his candidacy during paid appearances at DePauw University in Indiana and other campuses after he entered the presidential race on Sept. 17. Under the laws governing the financing of presidential campaigns, candidates cannot be paid by corporations, labor unions, individuals or even universities for campaign-related events. The Federal Election...

<p>It may come as a surprise to some of his supporters, but Democratic Presidential candidate Wesley K. Clark still hasn't joined the Democratic Party. According to the Pulaski County (Ark.) Voter Registrar's office, the former four-star general remains a registered independent. Even though he has been a declared candidate for the Dem nomination for two weeks now, he has yet to officially change his party affiliation.</p>

Wesley Clark: Rhodes scholar, four-star general, NATO commander, time-travel fanatic? During a whirlwind campaign swing Saturday through New Hampshire, Clark, the newest Democratic presidential candidate, gave supporters one of the first glimpses into his views on technology. "We need a vision of how we're going to move humanity ahead, and then we need to harness science to do it," Clark told a group of about 50 people in Newcastle attending a house party -- a tradition in New Hampshire presidential politics that enables well-connected voters to get an up-close look at candidates. Then, the 58-year-old Arkansas native, who retired from...

<p>Wesley Clark: Rhodes scholar, four-star general, NATO commander, time-travel fanatic?</p> <p>During a whirlwind campaign swing Saturday through New Hampshire, Clark, the newest Democratic presidential candidate, gave supporters one of the first glimpses into his views on technology.</p> <p>"We need a vision of how we're going to move humanity ahead, and then we need to harness science to do it," Clark told a group of about 50 people in Newcastle attending a house party -- a tradition in New Hampshire presidential politics that enables well-connected voters to get an up-close look at candidates.</p>

The website of the Los Altos (Calif.) Town Crier has probably never gotten as many hits on any single day as it did September 23, when the weekly paper printed its coverage of a 9-11 commemorative speech by retired Army Gen. Hugh Shelton. The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shocked his audience at the Foothill College Celebrity Forum when, in response to a question, he issued a blunt un-endorsement of the Democratic presidential field's new boy wonder, retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark. "I've known Wes for a long time," the Town Crier reported Shelton as saying. "I...

Thought y'all might get a hoot out of this one. It's a true story about the time Gen Wes Clarks armoured car was stolen. I was a Staff Sgt assigned to Allied Forces Northern Command Europe (AFNORTH) in Brunssum, Holland, from 96 to 2000. One day one of the sgt's I worked with brought in a pice of paper telling us to be on the lookout for Gen Wes Clarks armoured car. I thought it was just a bad joke until I read about it in the Stars and Stripes a day or two later. I can't remember all the...

House Dems Send Clark Recruitment Letter Associated Press WASHINGTON - A growing group of House Democrats backing Wesley Clark's presidential campaign sent a letter Wednesday urging their colleagues to join their bandwagon. Mississippi Rep. Gene Taylor signed on to the effort along with nine other Democrats who had already said they were supporting Clark.

NOTE: I bolded the two points of interest in this story that were most pertinent, besides the campaign bickering. http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2003/09/franke-ruta-g-09-25.htmlFan Friction Hell hath no fury like a Draft Clark enthusiast spurned. By Garance Franke-Ruta Web Exclusive: 9.25.03 Print Friendly | Email Article For months they were in on the world's greatest secret. While other Democratic Party insiders and Internet aficionados toiled for Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and former Gov. Howard Dean (D-Vt.), they held out hope that retired Gen. Wesley Clark might enter the presidential race. No one paid them much mind. But they hung on Clark's every word, read...

Clark Will Participate in Campaign Debate By RON FOURNIER .c The Associated Press They said yes. Then no. Now it's yes again: Wesley Clark will participate in next week's Democratic presidential debate after all, his campaign said. Clark will accept the invitation to next Thursday's debate via a letter to Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe carried by several members of a draft-Clark group, a senior campaign official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said. The letter will be delivered Friday, weather permitting, the official said. On Thursday, Clark aide Barbara Leyton called the Democratic National Committee and said the retired...

Friday, April 23, 1999 Clark and Vietnam II By Col. David Hackworth © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com NATO's Wesley Clark is not the Iron Duke, nor is he Stormin' Norman. Unlike Wellington and Schwarzkopf, Clark's not a muddy boots soldier. He's a military politician, without the right stuff to produce victory over Serbia. Known by those who've served with him as the "Ultimate Perfumed Prince," he's far more comfortable in a drawing room discussing political theories than hunkering down in the trenches where bullets fly and soldiers die. An intellectual in warrior's gear. A saying attributed to General George Patton was that it...

<p>Wesley Clark emerged as the Democratic front-runner days after entering the race, according to the poll.</p> <p>Fifty percent of 1,003 people questioned for the poll approved of Bush's job performance -- down from 59 percent in August and 71 percent in April -- the president's lowest rating since he came to office in January 2001.</p>

In a new Newsweek poll, the general takes an early lead among Democrats while Bush’s ratings continue to slide Sept. 20 — Retired Gen. Wesley Clark may have only entered the presidential race on Thursday, but he is already the Democratic frontrunner, according to a new NEWSWEEK poll. CLARK WON SUPPORT from 14 percent registered Democrats and democratic leaners, outpacing former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (12 percent), Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman (12 percent), Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry (10 percent) and Missouri Congressman Dick Gephardt (8 percent). Meanwhile, as Americans focus on the fiscal realities of creating a stable Iraq, President...

The nation’s pundits are surmising in their whiz-kid way that General Clark’s candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination has been instigated by some mysterious stratagem devised by the Clintons. I suppose the thing is possible. Yet a more plausible explanation for this glamorous candidacy is that the telegenic general has been inspired by the California gubernatorial campaign of Arianna Huffington. She is an inspiration to all such luminaries of the Kultursmog. Watch for the general to come down hard on SUVs, as Ms. Huffington has, and to sniff at “big money in politics,” as Ms. Huffington has from her Hollywood...