Salon has posted Clark: The New Dean? -- a story that takes as look at how various interests in the Democratic party are looking at a Clark bid for the presidency as a way to save them from Dean, who scares some of the establishment. A key line comes toward the end, where the writer makes the case that "all of the liberal positions that Dean has staked out" actually boil down to one thing that party insiders fear make him unelectable -- civil unions.
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BTW, I missed this before, but I guess it's totally official. Gen. Wesley Clark is a Democratic candidate for president.
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- todd
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- 2003-09-17T18:56:26-06:00
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- Tre'
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- 2003-09-18T13:13:12-06:00
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Yeah, they fear Dean's stance on civil unions because they are the homophobic wing of the Democratic party. What are they going to do about Clark's own belief to do away with the homophobic military policy known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"? Aside from Dean's belief that all Americans, including gays and lesbians, should be treated equal and should be equal under the law, his policies and stances as a whole are exactly what this country needs. I want my country back and Dean is the man to take it back! Go DEAN! http://www.deanforamerica.com http://www.outfordean.com
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- Jody
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- 2003-09-22T02:58:21-06:00
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Readers, I just deleted a photograph posted to this blog anonymously, er by "Howard Dean." We can't just indiscriminately post photographs without permission, unless it qualifies as "fair use," which this posting clearly does not.
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- ladd
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- 2003-09-22T11:12:56-06:00
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Links to pics of Democratic Presidential Candidate General Wesley Clark and his Bosnian War Criminal Comrades: The General and The War Criminal General Clark's Fishing Amigos. Nice hat! Wesley's Drinkin' Buddy on the Left "In one attention-getting episode in 1994, he had been advised by the State Department not to meet with Gen. Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian-Serb general accused of slaughtering hundreds of civilians in pursuit of ethnic cleansing. General Clark met with him anyway. General Mladic gave General Clark a bottle of plum brandy and an inscribed pistol; then the two swapped hats and posed for pictures that were splashed all over Europe. Privately, administration officials fumed that being buddy-buddy with General Mladic was "like cavorting with Hermann Goering." A Pentagon spokesman was left to explain that there must have been "a breakdown in communications."" Wes shared brandy and hats with his War Criminal pal. This was before he bombed the Serbs and native peoples of Kosovo, another foreign quagmire that the UN didn't support where self-government is still not in place after four years. We don't need more of the same. We don't need no stinkin' Clinton puppet. We need Howard Dean. Howard Dean for America
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- LuvHoward
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- 2003-09-22T18:09:43-06:00
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You know, I'm not sure why you think that pictures of Clark with Mladic will make me vote for Dean. Mudslinging is a stupid way to campaign. Do you have details on what was discussed at the meeting? Do you have reason to believe they are "buddies?" I can easily imagine multiple scenarios in which the two would need to meet - some nefarious, some not. I mean, don't we have pictures of Roosevelt meeting with Lenin? Does that mean Roosevelt was a huge supporter of Lenin? Details, please. Personally, I'm happy Clark is in the race. It's definitely changed the tenor of the field, and brought some renewed energy to the campaigns.
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- Kate
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- 2003-09-23T15:02:34-06:00
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