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The photos from the Singapore summit were meant to impress, but the substance was thin indeed — for a vague pledge to work towards complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula our president gave up U.S.-South Korean joint military exercises in a surprise move that whacked both South Korea and Japan. Maybe it will all work out. But to understand what President Donald Trump is really after, let me put this into perspective. Trump is a businessman, so let's think of him as a new CEO and his supporters as the shareholders. When new CEOs come in they work hard to...

There’s speculation on the US site, VP Watch, this evening that Barack Obama might be considering the former general and 2004 contender for the presidential nomination - Wes Clarke - for the VP slot. This is the report: “Gen. Wes Clark’s slogan — “Securing America’s Future” — is the theme for the night Barack Obama’s running mate is scheduled to speak at the Democratic National Convention. Clark’s political action committee is called WESPAC — Securing America’s Future. It could just be a coincidence. After all, Clark appeared to dash his hopes of running with Obama in late June when he...

It's a slow news day, so why not throw a little humor out there? Here's Kerry on today's Meet The Press, interviewed by Tom Brokaw: MR. BROKAW: We're going to get to all those issues, but I also want to raise what a surrogate for Senator Obama had to say to my friend Bob Schieffer on "Face the Nation." This is former General Wesley Clark talking about John McCain. He said, "I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president." He described him as untested and untried. With all due respect,...

Retired Gen. Clark backs Clinton Reuters Saturday, September 15, 2007; 1:33 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Saturday won the endorsement of retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, a former NATO commander and 2004 presidential candidate. Clark called the New York senator "a remarkable person" who would be "a great commander in chief" for the U.S. military. "She's the right person," Clark said in a telephone briefing with reporters. Clinton said she would like to have Clark "as involved as he can find the time to be" in her 2008 campaign. Clark headed the 1999 NATO...

Wesley Clark Endorses Hillary Clinton Sep 15 11:02 AM US/Eastern By BETH FOUHY Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton was endorsed Saturday by Wesley Clark, the retired four-star general whose early criticism of the Iraq war fueled a high-profile but short-lived run for the party's nomination in 2004. "Senator Clinton has the experience, good judgment and the battle tested character to face the challenges ahead," Clark told The Associated Press. Clark, who joined the Democratic field four years ago largely due to an active online draft movement, planned to discuss his endorsement on a conference...

After suggesting that Israel is pushing the United States into a war with Iran, Wesley Clark, the retired general and contender for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, moved quickly this week to snuff out a fast-moving controversy that threatened to set back his rumored 2008 campaign before it formally started. On Tuesday Clark, responding to an angry call from Anti-Defamation League Director Abraham Foxman, issued a statement expressing his opposition to “conspiracy theories” about the war in Iraq. Still, the controversy was already providing fresh ammunition for Jewish Republicans —and worrying Jewish leaders who fear that the war in Iraq...

AS the No. 2 general at United States Central Command from the Sept. 11 attacks through the Iraq war, I was the daily "answer man" to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. I briefed him twice a day; few people had as much interaction with him as I did during those two years. In light of the recent calls for his resignation by several retired generals, I would like to set the record straight on what he was really like to work with. When I was at Centcom, the people who needed to have access to Secretary Rumsfeld got it, and he...

Ran across this image of Wesley Clark and notice a flag is overlaying the US flag, how fitting for the communist american general. What Flag is it and why would it be covering the US flag in what looks like an official posed photo ?

Wesley Clark's political career: Born 2003, died 2004. A little while ago, I compared Wes Clark's roman candle of a presidential campaign to inexplicable and regrettable momentary fads, like flash mobs, the XFL, Tickle-Me-Elmo, or New Coke. Wes Clark's just-barely-in-primetime address Thursday evening was like an edition of VH1's "I Love The 80s." For a brief moment, it was "I Love September 2003," the month Clark's campaign with a photo on the cover of Newsweek. But Clark's campaign destructed. He was the one who invited Michael Moore on stage with him, where the filmmaker could ignite the empty "deserter" attack....

Clark dismisses Bush as unfit to command BOSTON - Two of the men Sen. John Kerry defeated for the Democratic presidential nomination, retired Gen. Wesley Clark and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, brought Democrats to their feet Thursday night with ringing calls for America to kick President Bush out of the White House. Kerry was to formally accept the nomination later in the evening in a speech challenging Bush on the war in Iraq and promising to “bring back this nation’s time-honored tradition: The United States of America never goes to war because we want to; we only go to war because...