So General Clark thinks Bush is a loser. That's not what he said in the pre-9/11 days. When he spoke at an...ahem...GOP fundraiser.
During extended remarks delivered at the Pulaski County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner in Little Rock, Arkansas on May 11, 2001, General Clark declared: "And I'm very glad we've got the great team in office, men like Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice... people I know very well - our president George W. Bush. We need them there."
Y'know, if the Democratic party and the national media were real people, and these hypothetical people were drunk, one could be forgiven for saying that they were seeing with their beer-googles on.
Why the fascination with Clark? Those four stars on his shoulders, no matter how he earned them (read: strategically deploying his lips on certain posteriors of interest, earning him the ire of many of his colleauges) gives him instant credibility on national security, Bush's strongest area. Never mind that he's got Arnold's vagueness on just about everything else, domestic issues, social issues, etc. Now we have his speech about Bush, which may feed the image of Clark as a "serial user," with an excess of ambition. When you've fallen head over heels for someone, when you have stars in your eyes, you tend to overlook the little things. And politics is all about the little things.
Posted by Thief at September 26, 2003 12:46 PM