America needs Wesley Clark. With crisis after crisis in the middle east, we need a leader with military experience, diplomatic experience and someone who doesn't have an ideologic agenda. PLEASE do all you can to educate your friends and family for the need of a candidate like Wesley Clark. He is also socially responsible. It is time to put the future of America in the hands of a responsible adult who is educated and knowledgeable about foreign affairs. Your life and the lives of your children and grandchildren are dependent on such a man! Don't trust the future to anyone less. There is no one person more qualified than this man to lead our country in this time of the most dire position America has ever experienced.

I agree. Clark is the most intelligent candidate the democrats could possibly have running. He's also got a lot of good, common "horse sense," and has the capacity to become a great leader. Unfortunately, I don't see him gaining the democratic nomination, his pockets probably aren't deep enough, and there are too many other, more well known candidates that he will have to get past, Hillary being #1, no doubt. He might want to consider a third-party run. I'd vote for him, he was my first choice for the demo nomination last time around .

Clark would fix this mess we're in real fast and you'd better believe he'd put an end to war profiteering.
Jim

If you took out the profit, the war occupation would end.

Clark may be the best candidate. Unfortunately, I believe that the Democrats may put up Hilary. She is completely unelectable for president. Wesley Clark doing a third party run would siphon off votes from the Democrats. It seems that the main problem that the Democrats have is an inability to mold themselves in to a cohesive organization. The American Nazi Party (oops, sorry) Republicans have done this through an amazingly well coordinated process. The use of the Big Lie, Swift Boat tactics, pandering to fears and prejudices has worked very well for them. What is needed is a candidate that is willing to do whatever is necessary in order to win. But even before that it is imperative that a Democratic organization be created that understands the need to completely undermine the Repubs without sounding wimpy.

I think that some of the issues that need to be hammered on are the following: The country was hit by terrorists on George W. Bush's watch, the war in Iraq was based on lies by George W. Bush(it has to be stated this way), the state of Medicare and pensions are the result of Republicans selling seniors and small investors down the river to the Republicans big money friends. Obscene Oil profits are the result of tax relief given to big Oil (not completely true but it certainly helped).

It comes down to the fact that the 2006 mid terms and the 2008 elections will significantly determine whether or not this country may rise in th world or sink further.

I'd love to see him as Secretary of State under Russ Feingold, and then president. I agree totally that this world needs him, but I think we need a legislative expert to undo all the crap the repubs have done to our laws including the constitution.

The righties would love to have Clark run as a thrid party canidate. That way they can have Fox News report every single day about how unstable the Democratic Party is and they get to run away with the religeous fanatic vote...

I agree that Wes would make a GREAT Secretary of State. A strategy for the Dems in '08 could be for the final candidate to announce some of his picks for cabinet positions prior to the election, people like Wes, Bill Richardson for Secretary of Interior (if he isn't the nominee), Hillary for HHS, etc. Doing so would show the American people that the newly elected Dem president is ready to hit the ground running to start correcting the mess that we have been in for the last almost six years.

I think Wes Clark would make a great president. If he doesn't win the primaries, I hope that whoever wins includes him in their administration. He has my respect.

That's a good point, but he could possibly siphon some votes from the republicans as well. How about a third party ticket of Clark/Hagel, or Hagel/Clark? After all, Wesly Clark was a commanding general in a successful campaign in the Balkans, so he knows a little about military effectiveness, which is a big deal with the other side. Another possibility is a VP slot on the democratic ticket. He would be a great #2 addition to ANY other candidate who might get the nomination. Clinton/Clark,Edwards/Clark, Warner/Clark, Kerry/Clark, any of those could be winners, imo. Of course, there's always an outside chance that Clark could come on strong and win the nomination himself, it's early yet and hard to tell. Could be he's biding his time and waiting for the right time to make his run.

Very interesting! Do you really think Hagel has enough clout to pull in some repub votes?
Hagel has been critical of Bush before, is it possible that he can be painted as a closet liberal and discredited that way?

Another key to victory is the campaign. I wanted Clark in '04 as well, but he ran a dissmal campaign. Do you think he learned his lesson?

I think Hagel has a decent shot at getting the republican nomination,because of the discontent over the way Iraq is going. It would be pretty hard to paint him as a closet liberal in my own view, because he's from Nebraska, a "redder than red" state, and as far as I know is pretty conservative on fiscal issues. Social issues I'm not sure,probably the same. I personally think more highly of Hagel than I do of McCain, even though I'm by no means a conservative. He seems to be a "straight shooter."That's a quality we as a country are sorely missing these days.

If he doesn't get the nomination, though, I think it would be a way to heal this country, if you had a ticket something like Hagel/Clark, or vice-versa. It would give America an opportunity to heal and stop being so partisan about everything. I mean, I'm one of the most partisan die-hard Democrats around, and It would take a scenario like this to make me even consider a vote other than for a straight Democrat ticket. But stranger things have happened.

Will Clark run a better campaign this time? Will he run ANY campaign? That's hard to say, but I really would like to see him run again, because he's got a lot of good, solid smarts. We definitely need him up there in some important capacity, whether it's Secretary of State, Defense, special advisor.If not President or VP.

I like you dream team Would love to think we could make it reality.

I think Clark entered way too late. Not enough time to let people know who he was. And, of course, sensing the threat that he was to dimbya, the right immediately started the smear. He was inexperienced and didn't know how to fight back. Here is his website. http://securingamerica.com/

AMEN!!!

I am going to try to get some audio of Wesley Clark on a a local radio show last Thursday. Clark spoke eloquently of the urgent need for honest diplomacy in the Middle East and of the failure of the Bushies to do so with the current Israel/Palestine/Lebanon crisis.

In more good news, Clarke's former aide Eric Massa is running for Congress in NY's 29th district- where I grew up and my family still resides. Massa is one of the 50 tightest House races in the country to unseat the incumbent, a drunken scumbag named Randy Kuhl. It would be a double victory if Massa wins- not only would Kuhl gone, but Massa's overall style is very similar to Clark.

Greetings from NY's 29th District, where Kuhl ain't cool!

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I see Clark as the National Security Adviser

Holbrooke as the Sec Of State, I would like to see Biden stay in the Senate

Bring back some of Bill's people, like Rubin, to run Treasury and the budget

I would like to see Janet Napolitano as Attorney General

I think keep politics out of Defense, chose someone with a strong management background



Mozdok

I think Wesley Clark would make a very good president plus he no doubt knows how to pronounce nuclear. He has a lot of military sense and this world needs someone who knows how to think and act militarily, with good sense as to how to do it. He is a gentleman and would make the United States of America a proud country once again. We have lost our respected standing in this world. Other nations laugh at us because we have such an inept leader. Its time to turn it around and Wesley Clark is the guy who can do it. He has my vote, for sure.

I would vote for Clark for president, but remember it has been almost 60 years since we have had a general officer elected president (and he was a DAMNED GOOD ONE at that!). I would like to see Clark run in 2016 after serving several cabinet positions including SecDef, SecState, and a term as National Security Adviser. He also could help straighten out the mess at Homeland Security in short order.
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WESLEY CLARK WOULD BE THE BEST prepared for the JOB
along with Al Gore

But
most americans are idiots, and vote name recognition.

George Washington on a ballot would win
Abraham Lincoln would win
Benjamin Franklin couild win
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Roosevelt

so its

mR./mS Geo. Lincoln Jefferson Franklin Washington AMERICAN is my choice.

SPANISH SPEAKING illegals will vote for any spanish deviation/NUMBSKULL best choice.
as a write in.


I'll take Clark/Obama with hillary as sec. of state
colin powell as Sec of Defense

Clark would be a great canidate and after seeing Gore's movie, I have a new found respect for him. I would leave the voting booth feeling proud voting for a Clark/Gore ticket or vice versa.
If Clark wants to be president, then he is going to have to act like it. He's going to actually have a campagin strategy and not just depend on Michael Moore for votes.







I can go with the idea of Clark/Obama, but Hillary has no credibility and should not be allowed near any cabnet level position and the same goes with Powell.