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<p>Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark is aiming to pull rank on Sen. John Kerry, the winner of Monday's Iowa caucuses, as the Democratic presidential race moves to New Hampshire.</p> <p>Clark, who didn't compete in Iowa, told campaign workers in Manchester, N.H., that Kerry, a decorated former Navy officer, had a military background "but nobody in this race has got the kind of background I've got."</p>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wesley Clark has gained significant ground on Howard Dean in polls of likely voters in New Hampshire almost two weeks before the state's Democratic presidential primary. Dean, the former governor of Vermont, is now roughly 10 points ahead of Clark, a retired general, in two polls taken this week. Dean was 15 points ahead in a third. Dean was 25 points ahead of Clark when American Research Group of Manchester, N.H., released the first of its tracking polls Dec. 28. Dean is now at 32 percent and Clark at 22 percent in the ARG poll released Wednesday....

ELECTION 2004Clark backs abortion until birthDemocrat: 'Life begins with the mother's decision' Posted: January 8, 20042:55 p.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com On the issue of abortion, Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark has taken the most extreme position possible, declaring he supports the legality of the procedure up until the moment of birth. Saying "life begins with the mother's decision," the retired general told the Manchester Union Leader he would never, as president, appoint a pro-life judge. "I don't believe people whose ideological agenda is to burn the law or remake the law or reshape it should be appointed whether they are from...

<p>Wesley Clark has gained ground on front-runner Howard Dean in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination, apparently the result of Mr. Dean's recent gaffes.</p> <p>Mr. Clark has cut the former Vermont governor's lead among Democratic voters from 15 percentage points to four since mid-December, according to a poll released yesterday by USA Today, CNN and Gallup.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Wesley Clark's new television commercial includes a clip of him and Bill Clinton.</p> <p>It's the first ad of the 2004 campaign to include an image of the former president, arguably America's most popular Democrat.</p>

Democrats' general on the retreat War hero's campaign falters as key staff drift away Paul Harris in New York Sunday November 23, 2003 The Observer When General Wesley Clark entered the race for the US presidency he was hailed as an all-conquering saviour who could provide the magic ingredients to defeat George Bush and capture the White House for the Democrats. Not any more. As President George W. Bush arrives home from his state visit to Britain, he will have the satisfaction of seeing Clark's campaign in crisis. It is low on funds, has lost key staff and is fizzling...

WASHINGTON — Both power centers of the Democratic establishment — the Kennedy left and the Clinton middle — are frantic at the prospect of losing control of their party to Howard Dean. They fear a McGovernesque debacle that would hand the G.O.P. a super-majority in the Senate. Clintonites were first to take the Dean threat seriously. As reported gleefully in this space (full disclosure: I'm rooting for Dean's candidacy in hopes of the debacle), the Clinton crowd surrounded ex-Gen. Wesley Clark with Clinton managers, spinmeisters, pollsters and fund-raisers and marched him into battle against Dean. The Clinton political strategy was,...

"...Clark thought he had Slobodan Milosevic figured out, and that the mere threat of NATO bombing — and perhaps a day or two of the real thing — would bring him to the negotiating table and force him to be reasonable. When this turned out not to be the case, Clark had no Plan B, because President Clinton had ruled out ground troops from the outset. So, NATO continued with a limp air campaign that was inadequate to stopping Milosevic's ethnic-cleansing campaign, that appalled other members of the military brass who thought Clark had helped drag the U.S. into a...