Reply #29: Yes I like Bush "so" much

[Tinoire]

that I would rather have a "dumb Bush" in office that I can keep my eyes on than a "smart Bush" who will do the same thing but more deftly. I will not let the Corporate Elite exploit/manipulate my hatred of Bush so much that they can use it to get another one of their boys into office. Homeland Security, Jackson Stephens, Markle Task Force, CSIS... No, no thank you. The Conservatives can keep this one- I'll keep the dumb one I can easily keep an eye on, thank you. The Democratic Party is better than a candidate who was (and who is being backed by people) dumb enough to still be praising Bush in 2003.

Banding together, with Republicans and Reagan Democrats, behind someone who as recently as March 2003 was heaping roses on Bush and his cabal is not my idea of furthering the Democratic agenda.

I may hate Bush, but I love my country and my party more. Nice try.

March 2003

"Of the people who are running this war, from Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld and Powell on down, in terms of the political appointees, are there are any who you particularly like who you would work with again, hypothetically, in some ..." ((what's the understood word there?))

Clark:

"I like all the people who are there. I've worked with them before. I was a White House Fellow in the Ford administration when Secretary Rumsfeld was White House chief of staff and later Secretary of Defense, and Dick Cheney was the deputy chief of staff at the White House and later the chief.

Paul Wolfowitz I've known for many, many years. Steve Hadley at the White House is an old friend. Doug Feith I worked with very intensively during the time we negotiated the Dayton Peace Agreement; he was representing the Bosnian Muslims then, along with Richard Perle. So I like these people a lot. They're not strangers. They're old colleagues. (( Oh yeah! The entire PNAC crowd))

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But the views that President Bush espoused recently at the American Enterprise Institute, if his predecessor had espoused that view he'd have been hooted off the stage, laughed at, accused of being incredibly idealistic about the hard-nosed practical politics of the Middle East. So this is an administration that's moving in a certain direction, and now that that's the direction they've picked they've got to make it work. Like everybody else, I hope they'll be successful. It's too important; we can't afford to fail. ((You can count me out of the "everyone" here))

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http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2003/03/24/clark
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Thursday, September 18, 2003

Speaking on May 11, 2001, as the keynote speaker to the Pulaski County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner, Clark said that American involvement abroad helps prevent war and spreads the ideals of the United States, according to an AP dispatch the following day.

Two weeks later, a report in U.S. News and World Report said Arkansas Republican politicos were "pondering the future of Wesley Clark:" "Insiders say Clark, who is a consultant for Stephens Group in Little Rock, is preparing a political run as a Republican. Less clear: what office he'd campaign for. At a recent Republican fund-raiser, he heralded Ronald Reagan's Cold War actions and George Bush's foreign policy. He also talked glowingly of current President Bush's national security team. Absent from the praise list -- his former boss, ex-Commander in Chief Bill Clinton."

Clark told CNN's Judy Woodruff earlier this month that he had decided to register as a Democrat. Left unsaid and unknown at this point is exactly when and why he decided to become a Democrat.

http://www.politicsus.com/front%20page%20archive/091803.html