Wesley Clark pledges end to discriminatory policies

[robbedvoter]

http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories2003/state/20031102033531.shtml
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Wesley Clark pledges end to discriminatory policies

LOS ANGELES -- Retired Gen. Wesley Clark said during a campaign stop Saturday that if elected president he would put an end to racial profiling and other policies he believes unfairly single out minorities.

The Democratic presidential hopeful, in his second Southern California campaign stop since he officially entered the race Sept. 17, spoke for about an hour at a hotel in the Koreatown neighborhood west of downtown Los Angeles. About 300 people attended the event.

Clark criticized the Bush administration’s handling of the economy, the war on terror and its foreign policy.
He drew the loudest applause from the crowd after saying that Bush does not do enough to address the concerns of minorities and denounced the president’s support of the Patriot Act, a sweeping law enacted following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that targets suspected terrorists.

Clark also said he would provide health care to all Americans under the age of 22 by giving them the opportunity to buy into federal health insurance programs. On Iraq, Clark accused Bush of playing "a game of bait and switch with the American people."

Clark was scheduled to speak before members of the San Francisco Bar Association today.




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[jogi1969]

1. give 'em hell General

i am a Clark supporter,
and i have been to a meetup -- in NC
just moved to SC, and want to get to the local Clark meetup here.

he is doing great by staying out of the mudslinging.
in the words of Mike Moore "i cant wait to see a debate between Gen. Clark and AWOL.."

[Mz Pip]

2. Clark is focusing

on criticisms of Bush and he will do, not on the other candidates.

Can't wait to hear him speak today. Am going to the SF Bar Assn. luncheon. :bounce:

MzPip
:dem:

[DulceDecorum]

3. Been there, done that, deeply regret it too.

Until now, this anonymity has suited the Arab American population well enough. It grew anxious after every skirmish with Iraq or after any terrorist bombing in the Middle East, braced for guilt by association.
This year, however, is different. They have found a new more assertive voice, more or less by accident. It just so happens that in a few of the most keenly contested swing states in this election, Arab Americans are a sizeable minority. In Michigan, for example, which hangs delicately in the balance, Arab American voters represent 4% of the electorate, and they traditionally vote in higher numbers than their neighbours.
It is therefore no coincidence that the community has been courted by both sides, although with much greater success by the Republican contender, George W Bush.
In what seemed to be a mere aside in the second presidential debate, the Texas governor mentioned what he termed the "racial profiling" of Arab Americans by immigration officials, and the controversial use of secret evidence in the trials of suspected terrorists - who in several recent cases have been of Arabic descent.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,397933,00.html

[DoveTurnedHawk]

4. Grr

There were way more people than 300, there were more than 500 in attendance.

:grr:

DTH