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FOLLOWING THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
(Probably the most important decision Americans of this generation will be
asked to make for decades to come. The wrong choice will result in an
American that is wide open to destruction by its enemies, both foreign
and domestic. International terrorists and their American-based
supporters pose the greatest threat to the peace and security of this country,
which is why the wrong choice in 2004 must not be made. At this time,
there remains only one clear choice who will do what must be done to safeguard
this country and our way of life, and he already has the job.)
PRESIDENT BUSH
Pres. Bush's Thanksgiving Speech to the Troops
:
(11/27/03) : President
Bush paid a group of U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq a top-secret,
super-surprise visit for some Thanksgiving turkey, and delivered his
Thanksgiving message in person in Baghdad today. The visit was
kept completely hush-hush, virtually until it occurred. (Read
Bush's remarks >>)
POLLING
(Do polls mean anything? Do polls mean anything beyond the objectives
of the pollsters, and those who commission the polls? Perhaps not.
Perhaps so. Whether polls have any objective meaning or value, they are
relied upon for good and for evil, and they are utilized, mostly, for their spin
value.)
Bush Beats Them All : (11/21/03)
:
According to a new Time/CNN poll of
registered voters (conducted November 18-19), if the election for President
were held told, President Bush would beat all comers. According to the
poll, as reported in the
Drudge Report, Bush would beat
Wesley Clark, 49%-42%; John Kerry, 49%-41%; Gephardt, Liberman or Dean, Bush
would best, 52%-39%. Edwards would lose to Bush, 52%-38%.
Poll: Bush,
Iraq and the Economy - 11/20/03 (FOX News)
As President George W. Bush faces war protesters and defends the Iraq war
during his state visit to Great Britain, a majority of Americans continues to
support the military action taken to disarm Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein.
And despite the president’s lowest job rating to date on his handling of Iraq,
over half of Americans today think the United States has a responsibility to
stay there until a democratic government has been established, according to
the latest FOX News poll. Opinion Dynamics Corporation conducted the
national poll of registered voters for FOX News, November 18-19, the first two
days of President Bush’s official state visit to Britain. Currently
two-thirds of Americans support the military action taken in Iraq, up two
points since September but down from a high of 81 percent in early April when
major combat was still underway. Just under half of the public knows someone
who was or is in the Middle East for the action in Iraq, and not surprisingly
these Americans are even more supportive (71 percent) of the U.S. having taken
action.
A large minority of Americans would vote for
George W. Bush if the election were today, and a plurality thinks he
will win the presidential race in 2004. Of the one-third saying the
president will lose his reelection bid, the situation in Iraq tops the
nation’s economy as the reason they think Bush will not be serving a
second term.
DEMOCRATS - OTHER
Sen. Miller: Democrats Headed for "Train Wreck" - 11/7/03 (AP)
Terry McAuliffe? A "disaster." The
Democrat presidential field? "Do not understand the South." President
Bush? "A little Churchill in him." America's most outspoken
Democrat leader, retiring Sen. Zell Miller, does not hold back.
In an exclusive interview
with NewsMax, the Georgian, who supports President Bush’s re-election,
talked about everything from the White House wannabes to Sept. 11.
Democrat front-runner Howard Dean, Miller told NewsMax, “is not a
knowledgeable source about how to run campaigns in the South.”
Campaigns in the South, he added, have been about “moving ahead” on
“economic development” and “improving education.”
Zell Miller Blasts Dems, Says Party is in "Breakdown" - 10/23/03
(NewsMax.com)
Retiring Sen. Zell Miller blasted his fellow Democrats on Wednesday for
pushing their party so far to the left that they've left it in a state
of total "breakdown." Using some of his harshest rhetoric yet,
Miller told nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity, "This party
is a shrinking party." He then slammed the current crop of
Democratic presidential candidates for trying to appeal only to
left-wingers and special interest groups. "These nine candidates -
the naive nine who are running for president - they're not really
running for president," Miller complained. "They're running for the
nomination. They're not trying to put together a consensus to win."
HOWARD DEAN
(Former Vermont Governor-turned-Presidential-candidate who, upon his
resignation to run for President, ordered that all of his papers as governor be
sealed for twelve years, and who has rejected all request to unseal those
records in light of his candidacy. Dean and his people have frankly
admitted that this was done so that his political opponents would have less
ammunition. What are you hiding, Howard?)
(Check out our collection of
articles about Dean Before he became a Presidential candidate)
Dean Has Record of
Raising Taxes - 12/19/03 (AP)
Democratic front-runner Howard Dean
often blames President Bush's tax-cut policy for rising property taxes, but
when Dean was governor of Vermont, his budget frequently came up short,
forcing towns to make up the difference with property tax increases. On
the campaign trail, Dean typically assails Bush's tax cuts with the argument
that they have imposed a greater burden on states, forcing them to raise
taxes, reduce services while squeezing middle-class taxpayers. The
presidential candidate has called for a repeal of all of Bush's tax cuts.
"Take a look at your property taxes. They probably went up," Dean said during
a speech Thursday in Manchester, N.H. "That's part of the Bush Tax."
Yet, in the nearly 12 years Dean was governor, property taxes that support
local schools in Vermont nearly doubled. Those that pay for municipal
government went up by nearly half to make up for less money from the state.
Dean, however, disputes any assertion that his policies as governor were at
all similar to the Bush policies he condemns.
Lieberman Calls Dean a
"Divisive Leader" - 12/19/03 (AP)
Presidential hopeful Joe Lieberman warned Friday
against replacing "one divisive leader with another divisive leader," a swipe
at both President Bush and the front-runner for the Democratic Party's
nomination, Howard Dean.
Voters in 2000 were almost evenly divided between Bush and the Democratic
ticket of former Vice President Al Gore and Lieberman. Bush eventually prevailed in one of the closest
presidential elections in history. Lieberman, a Connecticut senator struggling in the race to gain
the 2004 nomination, on Friday added to his earlier criticism that Dean was
taking Democrats backward by arguing that the former Vermont governor was a
divisive force within the party. "We're too divided," Lieberman said as he toured a technology
plant in Delaware. "I don't want to replace one divisive leader with another
divisive leader."
Dean's
Conflicting Iraq Comments Draw Scrutiny - 12/18/03 (Los Angeles Times)
As his rivals have stepped up their criticism of his stance on Iraq, former
Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's public statements about the war are under
increasing scrutiny, revealing a candidate whose off-the-cuff style has
sometimes led him to take contradictory positions. A close examination
of Dean's comments during the last 15 months shows that he has consistently
voiced opposition to the United States invading Iraq without the support of
the United Nations and repeatedly argued that President Bush did not make the
case for going to war. But Dean, who acknowledges that his outspoken
manner often gets him in trouble, has made conflicting statements about the
danger posed by Saddam Hussein and the conditions under which he would support
going to war.
Dean's Remarks
Give Rivals Talking Points - 12/18/03 (Washington Post)
Howard Dean's penchant for flippant and sometimes false statements is
generating increased criticism from his Democratic presidential rivals and
raising new questions about his ability to emerge as a nominee who can
withstand intense, sustained scrutiny and defeat President Bush. Dean,
for instance, recently spoke of a "most interesting theory" that Saudi Arabia
had "warned" Bush about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Although Dean
said he does not believe Bush was tipped off about the assaults that killed
nearly 3,000, he has made no apologies for raising the rumor. "How is
what I did different from what Dick Cheney or George Bush . . . did during the
time of the buildup of the invasion of Iraq?" the former Vermont governor said
Tuesday night aboard his campaign plane. "There were all these theories that
they mentioned. Many of them turned out not to be true. The difference is that
I acknowledged that I did not believe the theory I was putting out."
Bush this week called the theory an "absurd insinuation."
Beyond the
Mainstream - 12/18/03 (Washington Post)
In recent days a half-dozen leading Democrats have delivered major speeches on
foreign policy. Mostly, they follow a similar track. Presidential candidates
Howard Dean, John Edwards, John F. Kerry, Joseph I. Lieberman and Wesley K.
Clark and shadow candidate Hillary Clinton accept many of the goals of the
Bush administration but diverge sharply on the means to achieve them. All
agree that the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and the danger
that they will be acquired by terrorists, are critical threats. All chastise
Mr. Bush for damaging U.S. alliances and all promise to rebuild them, while
"internationalizing" Iraq's postwar reconstruction. Yet there are
important differences between the Democratic front-runner, Howard Dean, and
the other five. In his speech Monday, Mr. Dean alone portrayed the recruiting
of allies for Iraq as a means to "relieve the burden on the U.S." -- that is,
to quickly draw down American forces. Only he omitted democracy from his goals
for Iraq and the Middle East. And only Mr. Dean made the extraordinary
argument that the capture of Saddam Hussein "has not made Americans safer."
Dean on the
Griddle - 12/19/03 (Washington Post)
The stop-Dean movement has just kicked it up a notch. Make that a few
notches.
I'm just sitting here at the desk and watching the shells explode all
around.
Boom! Dick Gephardt does a conference call with reporters and all but
accuses Dean of being unqualified to be commander-in-chief.
Boom! Joe Lieberman, who's suddenly on TV every other hour, hits his new
sound bite that Dean is "in a spider hole of denial" if he doesn't think the
capture of Saddam Hussein makes America safer.
Lieberman Condemns Dean on Saddam Remark - 12/17/03 (Guardian Unlimited)
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman is trying to boost his
campaign by tearing down Howard Dean and, in doing so, capitalize on two
surprises - losing an old ally and finding an old enemy. In his sharpest
criticism yet of Dean, Lieberman said Tuesday that the former Vermont
governor's comment that ``the capture of Saddam has not made America safer''
raises the specter of a Democratic Party weak on national security.
ddddd``He thinks we're not safer by removing a homicidal maniac,''
Lieberman said in a speech. ``The fact is that Governor Dean has made a series
of dubious judgments and irresponsible statements in this campaign that together
signal that he would take us back to the days when we Democrats were not trusted
to defend our security.''
Kery Says Dean Lacks
Presidential Traits - 12/17/03 (New York Times)
Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts attacked Howard Dean on Tuesday as
inexperienced, inconsistent and weak on foreign policy, and maintained that
Dr. Dean lacked both "the judgment to be president" and "the credibility to be
elected president" for asserting that America was no safer because of Saddam
Hussein's capture. Americans face a "dual danger," Mr. Kerry declared in
a presidential campaign speech at Drake University here: "On one side is
President Bush, who has taken America off on a road of unilateralism and
ideological pre-emption. On the other side are those in my own party who
threaten to take us down a road of confusion and retreat." In what was
billed as an address on what to do about post-Hussein Iraq, Mr. Kerry had
little new to say by way of policy recommendations. But he gave a scathing
account of Dr. Dean's remarks about Iraq over the last year, saying the former
Vermont governor had been "all over the lot." "One moment he supported
authorizing the use of force, the next he criticized those who did," the
senator told an audience of about 200. "He said Saddam Hussein had weapons of
mass destruction; then he said he figured out that he didn't. He said he
opposed the war all along, but less than a month before it began he said that
if the U.N. wouldn't enforce its own mandates, then, quote, unilateralism is
regrettable but an unavoidable choice."
Dean: Let Judge Decide on Records - 12/8/03 (AP)
Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean
said Sunday he will let a judge determine which of his sealed records from
Dean's years as Vermont's governor should be made public. Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Dean said he has decided to use a lawsuit
by the government watchdog group Judicial Watch, suing to open the records,
as a mechanism to determine which records should be released and which
should be kept sealed. "What we think the best thing to do is to let the judge go through every
single document and decide for himself what ought to be revealed and what
not to be revealed," Dean said.
Trove of Papers Beguiles Dean Foes - 12/7/03 (AP)
In a nondescript warehouse here are 146 boxes of letters, memos and other
documents from former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's days in office.
Although he maintains that no "smoking gun" is hidden anywhere in the boxes,
Mr. Dean has made extraordinary requests to keep them sealed and refuses to
release them now as he runs for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The portion of documents from his 11 years as governor has become the focus of
Republicans eager to dash Mr. Dean's straight-talk image and a prize for
fellow Democrats running for their party's nomination, hoping to pick off the
emerging front-runner. Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut Democrat and a
rival for the party's presidential nomination, accused Mr. Dean of taking "an
extra long walk from straight talk."
What
is Howard Dean Hiding? - 11/30/03 (NewsMax.com)
As investigative reporters and "oppo" researchers flock to Vermont to dig into
Howard Dean's past, they have run into a roadblock. A large chunk of
Dean's records as governor are locked in a remote state warehouse, the result
of an aggressive legal strategy designed in part to protect Dean from
political attacks. Dean, who has blasted the Bush administration for
excessive secrecy, candidly acknowledged that politics was a major reason for
locking up his own files when he left office last January. He told
Vermont Public Radio he was putting a 10-year seal on many of his official
papers - four years longer than previous Vermont governors - because of
"future political considerations. ... We didn't want anything embarrassing
appearing in the papers at a critical time."
Lieberman Criticizes Dean Over Sealed Records
- 12/1/03 (AP)
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Lieberman criticized rival Howard Dean
for sealing dozens of boxes of records from his years as Vermont governor - a
practice common for those who held the state job. Dean, in an interview Monday on ABC's "Good Morning America" program, said
sealing the gubernatorial records is routine, but Lieberman said that stance
does not fit with Dean's efforts to present himself as a straight talker. "That's not the way to build public trust - especially after three years of
secret-keeping and information-blocking by George W. Bush," Lieberman said in
a statement. Later, during a campaign appearance in New Hampshire, Lieberman continued
to press Dean on the issue, saying, "I think Howard's got an obligation now to
do it or explain why not."
In
Debate, Deans' Record Draws Rivals' Criticism - 11/25/03 (Phila. Inquirer)
Democratic presidential candidates Richard A. Gephardt and John Kerry took
turns yesterday criticizing rival Howard Dean's record as governor of Vermont,
saying that he cut services to the needy and suggesting he would do the same
as president. Dean attempted to deflect the criticism with a terse denial and a joke. But
the criticism underscored the rising tension among the three as they grapple
for position in Iowa and New Hampshire, the first states to vote in the 2004
presidential campaign. Gephardt leads Dean narrowly in one survey in Iowa, which holds its
first-in-the-nation caucuses Jan. 19. Gephardt has come under attack from Dean
in a new television ad in the state, which Gephardt won in his unsuccessful
presidential bid in 1988. Dean leads in New Hampshire and has been criticized repeatedly by Kerry,
who is in second place in polls there.
33 Years Later, Draft Becomes Topic for Dean - 11/22/03 (New York Times)
In the winter of 1970, a 21-year-old student from
Yale walked into his armed services physical in New York carrying X-rays and a
letter from his orthopedist, eager to know whether a back condition might keep
him out of the military draft. This was not an uncommon scene in 1970, when medical deferments were a
frequently used avenue for those reluctant to take part in the unpopular war in
Vietnam. And this story would have little interest save that Howard Dean was the name of the young man. Now, 33 years later, he finds
himself a leading Democrat in the quest for the party's nomination to be
president of the United States. Dr. Dean got the medical deferment, but in a recent interview he said he
probably could have served had he not mentioned the condition. "I guess that's probably true," he said. "I mean, I was in no hurry to get
into the military." But now that he is running for president, in a race when many Democrats
believe they need a candidate with strong national security credentials to
challenge President Bush , the choices Dr. Dean, a former Vermont governor, made 33 years
ago are providing ammunition for critics.
Dean
Repeatedly Invoked Confederate Flag - 11/7/03 (NewsMax.com)
The press is pretending it was a one-time blooper when Democratic presidential
front-runner Howard Dean advised his party last week to begin courting
Confederate flag-carrying Southerners, leaving the impression that Dean's
remarks were a mere slip of the tongue, the kind of mistake that all
candidates make from time to time. However, reports reviewed by
NewsMax.com show that Gov. Dean has repeatedly invoked that symbol of the Old
South's slave days. In fact, the sentiment he expressed in Iowa last weekend
is part of the liberal Democrat's standard stump speech. In July, for
instance, Dean was quoted telling California Democrats: "I want to go to the
South, and I'm going to say to white guys that drive pickup trucks with
Confederate flag decals on the back of their car, 'We want your vote, too,
because your kids don't have health insurance either.'" That was a full
three months before the flag hit the fan for the progressives' favorite
candidate.
Dean Wants
Confederate Flag Voters - 11/1/03 (NewsMax.com)
A comment by Howard Dean about Confederate flags and pickup trucks has
embroiled the leading Democrats in Iowa's presidential caucuses in a
name-calling donnybrook. "I still want to be the candidate for guys with
Confederate flags in their pickup trucks," the former Vermont governor was
quoted as saying in Saturday's Des Moines Register. "We can't beat George Bush
unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats." Dean said
Saturday that he was intending to encourage the return of Southern voters who
have abandoned the Democrats for decades but are disaffected with the
Republicans.
JOSEPH
LIEBERMAN
Lieberman Lashes Out at Dean - 12/10/03 (Washington Post)
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) responded to his rejection by former
vice president Al Gore with a sharp attack on Howard Dean on Tuesday,
questioning Gore's judgment and warning that the former Vermont governor would
lead the Democratic Party back into the political wilderness. Vowing that
he is more determined than ever to fight for the future of his party, Lieberman
said at a pre-debate news conference here: "The choice in this campaign has now
become clear. Howard Dean and now Al Gore say they want to take our country
back. I want to take America forward." Lieberman, who was Gore's vice
presidential running mate in 2000, said he was disappointed that Gore had not
notified him before word leaked Monday and was shocked that Gore had decided to
back Dean. "I was surprised that Al Gore would endorse a candidate who stands
for so many things that Al Gore has not stood for, and has stood against in his
life."
WESLEY CLARK
(Brought in as the Clintons' last-minute, hand-picked candidate for the
Democratic Nomination, former general Wesley Clark is Bill and Hillary's
choice to lose against George Bush, thereby assuring Hillary a race in 2008,
free from an incumbant Republican president. Little is certain about the
views of this candidate-cum-lately, except that he has repeatedly given George
Bush and his administration high praise over the past two years, and that
months into his campaign, Clark had yet to register as a Democrat. Have
you taken care of that yet, Wes?)
Late-Starting Clark Races to Beat the Calendar - 11/23/03 (Phila. Inquirer)
Wesley Clark was
wrapping up his last campaign stop of the night at a "harvest dinner" in a
105-year-old town hall when George Chase, 72, asked the question that has dogged
Clark's campaign for two months: What did Hugh Shelton, the former chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, mean when he said Clark had character and integrity
issues? * * * Clark, an Arkansas native, doesn't expect to win New Hampshire, but he
hopes to take a strong showing there to South Carolina, Arizona and the other
Feb. 3 primary states. There was a burst of interest when he announced his candidacy, but the
honeymoon is over: A poll released Nov. 14 by the University of New Hampshire
Survey Center showed Clark had lost ground in the previous month - dropping to
5 percent from 10 percent - while Dean's formidable showing in the state had
climbed to 38 percent. Clark has had "tremendous opportunities, and so far he's squandered it,"
said Dick Bennett, president of the American Research Group, a polling firm in
Manchester. "You don't see any lawn signs and you don't really hear people
talking about Clark. You don't see Clark people walking the wards."
Clark Delays Filing of Required FEC Financial
Disclosure Statement - 11/3/03 (Drudge Report)
According to the
Drudge Report, Democratic Presidential candidate Wesley Clark has sought and
received a 45-day extension of the October 30th deadline for the filing of the
financial disclosures required by federal election law. Clark's disclosure
statement is now due to be filed by December 15, 2003. Clark's failure to
provide his personal financial information at the earliest possible time raises
serious questions about his personal financial dealings, and the reason behind
the need for the month and-a-half delay.
Clark
Contradictions Raise Questions - 10/30/03 (FOX News)
Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark , a four-star general and
strategic military thinker, is a longtime opponent of war in Iraq. At least,
that's his story and he's sticking with it. I've been against this war
from the beginning. I was against it last summer. I was against it in the fall.
I was against it in the winter. I was against it in the spring, and I am against
it now," Clark said in last Sunday's debate of the nine Democrats seeking to
replace President Bush in 2004. But a number of conflicting statements
raise questions about Clark's positions. Before the war, Clark emphatically
declared Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. As U.S. forces were
deployed to the Persian Gulf, the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander said U.S.
credibility was on the line, and "we're going to go ahead and do this, and the
rest of the world's got to get with us."
Clark:
9/11 Was Bush's Fault - 10/28/03 (NewsMax.com)
Gen. Wesley Clark said Tuesday that President
Bush is responsible for leaving America vulnerable to the 9/11 attacks - a
charge severely undermined by ex-President Clinton's admission last year that
he pulled the plug on two missions to kill Osama bin Laden and refused an
offer for the 9/11 mastermind's extradition to the U.S. "There is no way
this [Bush] administration can walk away from its responsibility for 9/11,"
Clark told a conference titled "New American Strategies for Security and
Peace." "You can't blame something like this on lower-level intelligence
officers, however badly they communicated memos with each other," he added, in
quotes picked up by the Associated Press. "The buck rests with the
commander in chief, right on George W. Bush's desk," Clark insisted.
About Face: Another Videotape Has Emerged in the Wesley K. Clark Collection of
Kind Words for the Bush Administration - 10/18/03 (Time)
From Day One as a Democratic presidential candidate, Wesley K. Clark, the
retired general, has had to defend his past praise of the president's national
security advisers—some of those compliments coming in a speech Clark gave at a
GOP fundraising dinner in Little Rock in May, 2001. At that event, he singled
out top officials from Vice President Cheney to Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld, calling them a "great team" and saying that "we need them there."
Clerk
Tries to Explain Praise of Bush, Slap at Clinton - 9/26/03 (NewsMax.com)
Red-faced Wesley Clark is trying to explain a speech he made in 2001 in which
he praised the Bush administration and mocked the clueless Clinton
administration. The retired general noted in the speech at a GOP dinner
in Arkansas that when he got to Washington in 1994, during the Clinton
administration, he found that "We lost our direction in the world." He
said that Clinton's Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman John Shalikashvili told
him, "Look, Wes, I hired you to be the strategist ... so tell me, what is our
strategy?" Clark then added: "Well, I didn't have the faintest idea. He didn't
either, and neither did anybody else." In his speech Clark praised the
Bushies. "I'm very glad we've got the great team in office, men like Colin
Powell, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Paul O'Neill - people I
know very well - our president, George W. Bush. We need them there."
Moore
Urged Clark to Run but Won't Endorse Him - 9/26/03 (NewsMax.com)
Wesley Clark has shown a tendency to be on both
side of an issue - for example, either backing the Iraq war or condemning it,
depending on the time of day - so it shouldn't be surprising that "big fat
idiot" Michael Moore can play the same game. First he urged Clark to run, but
now he won't endorse the retired general. The "stupid white man" wrote
to his cabal: "Last week, over 30,000 of you from my list sent letters to
Wesley Clark urging to him to run. And, hey, um – it looks like it helped! He
announced on Wednesday and by Sunday he was #1 in the Newsweek poll on the 10
Democratic candidates." That's the good news for the ex-general. The bad
news is that Moore says, "In my open letter to General Clark, while strongly
encouraging him to run, I told him that I was not yet endorsing him."
General Clark Praised Condi, Powell, Rumsfeld and Bush: "We Need Them There"
- 9/25/03 (Drudge Report)
Democratic presidential hopeful General
Wesley Clark offered lavish praise for the Bush Administration and its key
players in a speech to Republicans -- just two years ago, the Drudge Report can
reveal!
During extended remarks delivered at the Pulaski County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner
in Little Rock, Arkansas on May 11, 2001, General Clark declared: "And I'm very
glad we've got the great team in office, men like Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld,
Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice... people I know very well - our president George
W. Bush. We need them there."
Hot-Tempered
Clark in Conference Tantrum Meltdown - 9/25/03 (NewsMax.com)
Presidential front-runner Gen. Wesley Clark blew a gasket while attending a
conference in California several years ago, throwing a temper tantrum so ugly
that it "had to be seen to be believed," according to one eyewitness. The
account of Clark's meltdown comes from WABC Radio's Monica Crowley, who attended
the event and personally witnessed the future presidential candidate in full
hissy-fit mode. "At the end of the conference, everybody was sort of
leaving the hotel and checking out at the same time," Crowley told her audience
Wednesday night. "Clark proceeded to throw a fit that had to be seen to be
believed - something about how his luggage was being handled," she explained.
Retired
Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Hugh Shelton: I Won't Back Clark for Prez - 9/24/03
(NewsMax.com)
The military man who was Gen. Wesley Clark's superior officer when he served as
Supreme Allied Commander of NATO shocked a California college forum earlier this
month when he questioned Clark's integrity and said he wouldn't back his
presidential candidacy under any circumstances. Addressing a gathering at
Foothill College in Los Altos, Calif., two weeks ago, retired general Hugh
Shelton, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President
Clinton, was asked by the event's moderator, Dick Henning, "What do you think of
General Wesley Clark and would you support him as a presidential candidate?"
At the mention of Clark's name, Gen. Shelton's expression darkened, and he
paused for a drink of water. The gesture prompted Henning to add, "I
noticed you took a drink on that one!"
Clark Almost
Blundered into World War III, Says Brit General - 9/19/03 (NewsMax.com)
Gen. Wesley Clark is being praised by Democrats as a man of keen intellect and
sound judgment, but a top military commander who served under him in the Kosovo
War said he had to overrule the former NATO commander out of fear he was about
to start World War III. When Gen. Clark got word that Russian forces were
about to occupy the Serbian airport at Pristina, he ordered British Lt. Gen.
Michael Jackson to parachute troops onto the tarmac to confront the Red Army.
Gen. Jackson flatly refused to obey Clark's direct command, reportedly telling
the general-turned-presidential candidate, "I'm not going to start the Third
World War for you."
Gen. Clark:
Hillary Made Me Do It - 9/19/03 (NewsMax.com)
Gen. Wesley Clark said Thursday that he entered the presidential race the day
before in part because U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton asked him to do so. In an
interview with the Miami Herald, Clark said that "he had been flooded with
requests to run - including from New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton." In
comments to the New York Times, Gen. Clark said that both Mr. and Mrs. Clinton
had encouraged him to make the run. Oddly enough, however, once the
ex-NATO commander entered the race, Mr. Clinton's enthusiasm for Clark's
prospects began to wane. Commenting on Clark's chances for success, the
ex-president told a California audience this week, "Whether [Clark] can get
elected president I don't have a clue."
Dean
Speechless as Clintons Hijack Campaign - 9/18/03 (NewsMax.com)
Will Democratic Party presidential front-runner Howard Dean become Bill and
Hillary Clinton's next Nita Lowey? Lowey is the New York Democrat who was
the odds-on favorite to run for Senate in 2000. But when Hillary made it known
she wanted the job instead, Lowey gracefully agreed to bow out of the race.
Three years later it looks as if Dr. Dean is about to be "Loweyed" by the
Clintons, and - so far at least - we haven't heard a peep about the challenge
from the man who supposedly had the nomination all but locked up. More
than a day has passed since Mr. Clinton told a California audience that his wife
would be forgiven if she breaks her promise not to get into the presidential
race.
JOHN KERRY
John "F" Kerry: Now We Know What
the "F Stands For!
: 12/7/03
Democratic Presidential candidate, John F. Kerry, discussing his
initial support for the War in Iraq, and demonstrating the breadth of
his communications skills, in an interview with Rolling Stone
magazine, said that Pres. Bush "F * * * ed up" in handling the war.
Kerry spokesman, David Wade, confirmed the accuracy of the quote, but
attributed the comment to Kerry's "boiling" blood. (more
>>)
House, Painting and Wife Join in Kerry Financing - 11/27/03 (New York Times)
For Senator John Kerry, the five-story red brick house in the exclusive
Beacon Hill section of Boston, with its climbing wisteria, antique furnishings
and rooftop deck, offers a place of respite from his frenetic campaigning for
the Democratic nomination for president. Now the house, worth perhaps $10
million, may offer Mr. Kerry something else: a quick way to get a loan to inject
money that could jump-start his campaign. Two weeks ago, when Mr. Kerry
became the second Democratic candidate to forgo public financing in the
primaries, he said he was doing so reluctantly because of new rules being
followed by his rival Howard Dean, who has raised vast sums through the
Internet. Mr. Kerry, on the other hand, has not hidden the fact that he
now plans to draw on his personal wealth for his campaign. In an interview last
week in his Beacon Hill home, Mr. Kerry said his decision had not upset his
supporters.
Health Care
a Top Focus, Kerry Says - 11/22/03 (Phila. Inquirer)
Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.), seeking to refocus his presidential campaign
message, said yesterday that his first legislative priority as president would
be to expand access to affordable health care and pledged to challenge the
power of special interests by reinstating a five-year ban on lobbying for
former government officials. Acknowledging that he has slipped well behind rival Howard Dean, the former
governor of Vermont, in the battle for first place in the New Hampshire
primary, Kerry outlined what he called an action plan for his presidency that
also included rolling back President Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest
Americans; placing new emphasis on national service; and providing more
spending for schools. "Here in New Hampshire, I started out ahead, and then I fell behind," Kerry
told high school students in New Hampshire. "But I'm going to fight back. I'm
looking forward to this fight, and I intend to win this fight." Kerry
delivered the speech at Concord High School; a text of his prepared remarks
was made available by his campaign staff.
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