Reply #2: Nobody can touch Clark in this party on foreign policy [View All]

[BeyondGeography]

OK, there's Jamie Rubin and Richard Holbrooke, but they don't have the public stature of Clark, they never led this nation into battle, and they never subjected themselves to the vagaries of the party primary process.

So Clark deserves to be spotlighted at the convention, because he speaks with more authority, more clarity and more persuasiveness on the key issues of Iraq and the War on Terror than anybody else on the roster. It's not even a contest.

I don't think he'll be given the profile that you and I would hope for. I posted a thread last night asking if he'd have any role, and many DU'ers wrote back saying all the primary candidates would be given a speaker's slot. But prime-time for Wes? It's not a given. There's still plenty of resistance to him even though, as you point out, he can help extricate Kewrry and Edwards from the apparent contradiction of their IWR vote and their subsequent criticisms of the war.

My approach would be to let Wes be Wes and talk about leadership and accountability. As he has said before, the President sets our national priorities, and, by targeting Iraq when he did, he set the wrong priority. Take the emphasis off Kerry and Edwards and place it on Bush's catastrophically bad judgment. Wes will do a great job. Here's hoping the Democratic Party has the good sense to let the country hear him.