The Real Wesley Clark

[kstewart33]

From Richard Cohen (a mod-liberal) in the Washington Post:

The Real Wesley Clark

By Richard Cohen
Thursday, September 18, 2003; Page A23


All around Washington last week -- and before and after on the phone -- I've been busy asking people about Wesley Clark. I talked with people who worked with him, some of them very closely, asking over and over again a variation of the same question: Is Wesley Clark too weird for prime time?

Let me first tell you why I asked the question: It's because Clark in effect got fired from the Pentagon. Not to put too fine a point on it, then-Defense Secretary Bill Cohen, joined by many of Clark's colleagues, came to just plain dislike him.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27039-2003Sep17.html

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My two-cents worth: I don't care if he throws china at the walls. If he can lead this country out of the mess that it is in, I'm all for him.

[billbuckhead]

1. We need someone from the military to solve the military industrial complex

So much of our problems as a nation revolve around our relationship to our own military. Maybe it will take someone from West Point to fix these problems. Let's start with the money trail. A trillion dollars are missing from the Pentagon for one thing? Sweetheart deals for Halliburton, Bechtel and even Enron. Maybe this guy can find where the money went.

[Ardee]

2. ..and maybe he shouldnt try....

...to start at the top.....
Having never run for any elective office, being used only to being given commands and then giving orders perhaps his qualifications are suspect. He has no experience with the DC shguffle, a sad fact that doomed the Carter Presidency.