Latest wingnut salvo on Wesley Clark

[ResistTheCoup]

Check out the Chicago Sun-Times article today,

"Clark may have picked wrong battle"

http://www.suntimes.com/output/osullivan/cst-edt-osul23.html

(These people are so Hillary-phobic it's pitiful.)

Excerpt:

As Wesley Clark plunges into the campaign for the Democratic president nomination, he would be wise to recall the warning of a shrewd Roman historian. Tacitus wrote of a gifted but disastrous political leader: "Capax imperii nisi imperasset." This crabbed Latin judgment is famously hard to translate but its rough meaning goes: "He would have made a very fine emperor if, poor fellow, he had not actually become emperor."

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Clark's final drawback is the apparent backing he has received from the Clintons and their political apparatus. Former Clinton advisers surround him, and favorable comments on his campaign have been leaked from their eyrie in New York. But if bad things happen to enemies of the Clintons, worse things happen to their friends--Kathleen Willey got groped in the course of being "comforted" in her widow's grief, and Webb Hubbell, Jim and Susan MacDougall, and former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker all went to jail,

Probably Clark will not go to prison or be groped. If President Bush looks vulnerable in early 2004, however, no one will be surprised if Clark ends up with a purely decorative vice presidential nomination and a look of glazed surprise on his face as his top campaign aides cluster around the Democratic party's surprise nominee, Hillary Rodham Clinton. And something similar in 2008 if the GOP wins this round. If Clark thought that Milosevic was a formidable foe, he is about to learn the far more ruthless tactics of Political Warfare 101.

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[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Who ta hell trusts that wing-nut O'Sullivan?

Or the Chicago Sun-Times? It is far more reactionary than the Tribune!

[ResistTheCoup]

2. You must live in Chicago

and are familiar with the local rags. I was just trying to pass along how low these people will stoop.

I've only posted a few times on DU. Thanks for your "friendly" reply. In the future I'll keep my thoughts to myself.

[kanrok]

3. Good post R

I don't think you were being dissed, I had the same reaction to the post. I think the gist of the response to your post is just a reflection of the general feeling people here have for right wing nonsense. Welcome to DU. :yourock:

[ResistTheCoup]

4. Thanks for the nice note

I appreciate the kind words.

I'm a little gun-shy because this was my second post in a week and my second snippy answer and all I was posting were links to articles!

Twice bitten, twice shy. Thanks again for the kind words.

[jab105]

10. Dont worry, I get it all the time...we are a motley bunch:)

interesting article...

I think the HIllary obsession is crazy...

[lanlady]

5. greataunt wasn't aiming at you, R

Don't get discouraged. Thanks for this link, by the way. The Hillary-hating of the right is just sick.

[ResistTheCoup]

7. Thanks, lanlady n/t

n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. This editorial sounds more conspiracy phobic than the latest by...

William Safire

[ResistTheCoup]

8. It seems that this "stalking horse" theory is spreading like crazy

My blog has a list of names and links - all with similar "conspiracy theories" about Clark/Clinton. Rudolph Giuliani even admitted he bought it!

I also linked to Mahablog's post about "The Stalking Horse" which goes into way more detail than mine (and is funny to boot!)

www.positiveblasphemy.blogspot.com

Thanks again to all for the kind words.

[Julien Sorel]

9. This is Vince Foster territory,

in a major newspaper. I'm literally shocked.

If Clark is leading 'early in 2004,' how exactly do they think the Clintons will force him to withdraw? He's not a dog on a leash. Beyond a certain point, he should have his own power base, and the Clintons would then become sattelites.

This is smear stuff.