Reply #15: OK, here's the last comment Wesley Jr. made... [View All]

[graham67]

on 7/9. It's a bitch to look up the comments. More coming as I find them.

http://www.dailykos.com/archives/003322.html#003322

(If you visit the link, click on the "temporary comments" even though it says -0-. The comments are there, some screwy Haloscan thing going on...)


Just a couple of comments (and yes, I am who I say I am as Kos can attest),

I don't know if he will run but he'll make an announcement either way (my guess is at the very latest labor day). I understand that the wait might be frustrating for people in the DraftClark movement and the Democratic party - but if he runs, I assume that those who think he is a good candidate now will probably not hold it against him just because he waited a few extra weeks.

He won't be running as a Republican.

He IS NOT campaigning for a VP slot.

He is very progressive on every issue - he's stated that global warming is happening, that he's pro-choice, that he's pro-affirmative action, that he's pro-union, that the tax code should remain progressive, that multilateral solutions should be found for the world's security concerns, that he was against the decision to go to war in Iraq and that we need stronger social safety nets. I don't know what other positions people need to find out which direction he leans but it seems fairly clear to me.

He is most of all interested in the battle of ideas and not that of individuals (to include himself). I'm sure he'll help out whomever wins the nom for the Democrats when it comes time to bring down Bushco - whether he mounts a campaign himself or not.

I don't know if he would be able to win the Democratic nom but I believe he is the only one who can win the general election because it will be about one thing - national security. I wish it were about health care, the coming water crisis, the need for alternative energy or the economy but it won't be. National security is now personal security and that trumps every other issue.

As an unrelated aside, does anyone else out there believe that the real reason the Repubs are having the convention in NYC isn't to crow about 9/11 but to provoke a riot a la Chicago in '68?
Wesley Clark Jr. | 07.09.03 - 5:05 pm | #"