From American Prospect...
"IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Wesley Clark made his first visit to this state as a presidential candidate on Friday, speaking to a crowd at a diner and later to an audience at the University of Iowa. While he didn't hesitate to remind voters that he is from the heartland (Arkansas) or that he was enjoying his visit to the heartland (Iowa), he left many wondering about his specific policy ideas for the heartland.
That is, he didn't fill in many of the blanks in his domestic agenda.
Clark entered the Hamburg Inn, a local diner, Friday morning to a crowd of about 70 people, many of whom chanted, 'Win, win, Wes!' Addressing the group from one end of the diner, he paused to liken Iowa to his home state of Arkansas before launching into the topic he really wanted to talk about: foreign policy.
But foreign policy alone seems unlikely to satisfy most Iowa voters. While Clark arguably has the strongest foreign-policy credentials in the Democratic field, voters are going to be looking for him to become more specific on health care and the economy -- and fast. At the diner, Clark made a brief nod to the 'jobless' economic recovery and to health care, but he devoted most of his speech to criticizing the Bush administration for invading Iraq and failing to apprehend Osama bin Laden."
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