Clark is Running! "When I run I'll be the National Security Candidate...

[Clarkie1]

and I've been around the block a few times."

Clark discusses his credentials and a wide-ranging variety of domestic and international issues!

This is breaking...video is from this evening.


http://www.ptnine.com/clark_huntsville_01_16_2007.wmv

[JI7]

1. i hope he does

he isn't my #1 favorite, but he does add a lot of substance.

[merh]

2. I like Clark and really feel that he would make the best president

out of the lot.

:thumbsup:

[msongs]

3. any serious candidate needs to get in now...I could vote for Clark like voting for Dean nt

[mykpart]

15. I think Clark might have won in 2004

if he had gotten started sooner. He does need to get in now. I would have voted for him in the primary, but he dropped out before the Texas primary. If he ran, I wonder how they chickenhawks would try to swiftboat him.

[BurtWorm]

4. The National Security Candidate?

:wtf:

Can't he come up with something that actually matters to human beings?

[Clarkie1]

6. National security includes health security, environmental security

(Clark sees global warming as a national security threat), economic security, constitutioinal security, and educational security.

Watch the video!

:hi:

[BurtWorm]

8. Security security security...

I get the message.

[atre]

13. Bingo.

A candidate who uses all of the * Administration buzzwords!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. I certainly could support him again

He was my first choice in the 2004 election primaries. I would also like Gore a lot, if he runs, if he becomes a tough campaigner this time around unlike last time. Gore and Clark would make a great pair, in fact.

[ConsAreLiars]

9. Clark/Gore would be a winner

Clark has the ability to speak clearly, wisely, and honestly (and appear so) without evasion. He gets points for this among the otherwise uncommitted, while Gore got "managed" in 2000 by professionals who kept him from just being "real" to the wider populace. If he hadn't been so badly "handled" he would have won by a landslide. But he is still widely recognized as being a capable DC "insider" and brings that expertise to a Clark campaign, so a Clark/Gore ticket would bring both the "outsider" and "insider" advantages to a campaign.

They are equally progressive, but Clark has the "General" label which lends additional creds for many, especially given the increasing dangers the warmongers have produced. And both had the sense to see the PNACers game for the disaster it has been proven to be, and both have spoken passionately against it.

And, from the dark side of my view of history, offing Clark to get Gore would not be as tempting a prospect to the Secret Team as was offing JFK to get a Johnson.

[w4rma]

7. President Clark sounds very good. (nt)

[BurtWorm]

11. If Gore isn't running for president,

he sure as hell isn't running for vice president.

[w4rma]

17. Agreed. (nt)

[napi21]

10. I'll wait and listen to him, but the last time, there was just something

missing. I can't put my finger on it, but something wasjust not there with him. Maybe he was too nice, or not agressive enough, I don't know.

I will listen to every Candidate andTHEn make up my mind!

[FrenchieCat]

12. Clark doesn't need to be agressive as that proves nothing.....

But Clark has become much more assertive....because in 2004, he followed the rules. Now he understands much better that in politics, the rules are made to be broken.

What I will say is that Clark is the most Prescient one out of the bunch.

Who else running knew and said this in September of 2002? :shrug:

"The war is unpredictable and could be difficult and costly. And what is at risk in the aftermath is an open-ended American ground commitment in Iraq and an even deeper sense of humiliation in the Arab world, which could intensify our problems in the region and elsewhere.

we're going to have chaos in that region....; in fact, what may happen is that we'll remove a repressive regime and have it replaced with a fundamentalist regime which contributes to the strategic problem rather than helping to solve it.

Then we're dealing with the longer mid term, the mid term problems. Will Iraq be able to establish a government that holds it together or will it fragment? There are strong factionary forces at work in Iraq and they will continue to be exacerbated by regional tensions in the area. The Shia in the south will be pulled by the Iranians.
The Kurds want their own organization. The Kurds will be hemmed in by the Turks. The Iraqis also, the Iranians also are nervous of the Kurds. But nevertheless, the Kurds have a certain mass and momentum that they've built up. They will have to work to establish their participation in the government or their own identity."

We've encouraged Saddam Hussein and supported him as he attacked against Iran in an effort to prevent Iranian destabilization of the Gulf. That came back and bit us when Saddam Hussein then moved against Kuwait. We encouraged the Saudis and the Pakistanis to work with the Afghans and build an army of God, the mujahaddin, to oppose the Soviets in Afghanistan. Now we have released tens of thousands of these Holy warriors, some of whom have turned against us and formed Al Qaida.
My French friends constantly remind me that these are problems that we had a hand in creating. So when it comes to creating another strategy, which is built around the intrusion into the region by U.S. forces, all the warning signs should be flashing. There are unintended consequences when force is used. Use it as a last resort. Use it multilaterally if you can. Use it unilaterally only if you must."
http://www.rapidfire-silverbullets.com/2007/01/mining_and_finding_prescient_g.html

[JCMach1]

14. He will lose: America doesn't want a National Security Candidate

They want a candidate who get us out of the mess in Iraq ASAP.

That's not the same thing.

Unless he wants to audition for SECDEF, I think he better have some other moves as well...

[FrenchieCat]

16. He does......

It's just that getting out of Iraq won't be the picnic you may envision.

Pandora's Box #2 lid can be seen from here if it ain't done right...in particular, by those who predicted Pandora's Box #1 accurately....one which was Wes Clark!

Reason that congress voted to give Bush the Authority to go to war was because many were in an "ASAP" hurry to "get back" to the "real" 2002 election issues. How did that turn out?

Here's some info and reviews on Clark's policies, progressive and domestic.
http://www.rapidfire-silverbullets.com/2006/12/clarks_progressive_bonafides_w.html

[Cameron27]

18. I'm putting the youtube link in:

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/10556

He's in, I think he's in!

[Glimmer of Hope]

19. This is very exciting. I wish he announce soon so he could get airtime

for his Iraq plan.