Why I will caucus for Wesley Clark

[KnucklesBuchanan]

Leadership

This next election isn’t really about who has the best policy, or who has the most legislative experience, or who has the nicest hair. (I think we all can agree that the answers are: all of them have good policy ideas; Kerry, Kucinich and Edwards in descending order; and Al Sharpton). But again, that isn’t what the election is about. This next election is truly about leadership. Who, of all the candidates currently in the race, is best equipped to lead America into the new millennium, when that leadership is already three years overdue?

I say this, because it will not matter who has the best tax reform ideas if they cannot get them implemented by a hostile Congress. It will not matter who has the best success strategy for the war in Iraq if they cannot get the world leaders to agree to those plans. It will not matter what environmental reforms are desired; what plans for freeing America from dependence on foreign oil are drafted; or how the president will stop the constant flow of jobs to foreign countries if he cannot get the Congress to follow his lead. The answer to the question posed earlier is quite simple, really, as it is the only answer. The candidate who is best equipped and best prepared for the challenge of leading America into a bright future in a hostile world is Wesley Clark.

He has the practical domestic experience of governing hundreds of thousands of troops and their families; improving substandard education, health care and crumbling infrastructures on military bases; turning around underperforming divisions until they become best in class. He has practical foreign policy experience that the other candidates can only dream of: conducting high-level military negotiations with foreign powers in pursuit of peace; conducting war if necessary, when the conditions for peace were not met.

Many people like to make light of the war in Kosovo, as it was “only” an air war. However, the war in Kosovo was a war fought and negotiated by Wesley Clark on multiple fronts: military, diplomatic and domestic. He had to fight and negotiate with the U.S. government just to have our military forces intervene to stop the genocide. He had to negotiate every day with all nineteen member nations of NATO in order to assure that all nations were in agreement on strategy, bombing targets and the ongoing diplomatic negotiations with the Serbian government. He had to fight and negotiate with his own command structure (the Pentagon and the White House) simply to ensure he had a workable plan for success. And he did succeed.

The success of Wesley Clark in his military career was not accidental, it was due to his strength of character, and his strength of leadership. America needs that strength of character, and strength of leadership now. America needs Wes Clark.

[maddezmom]

1. thank you :)

excellent post.

[Jack_Dawson]

2. Thanks! Where you Caucusing?

[KnucklesBuchanan]

6. I'm in Kitsap County...

and will be at Bremerton High School. PCO of Precinct Bremerton 001.

[MoonRiver]

3. That thoughtful post reflects my own feelings and beliefs about Clark.

No one in the race can hold a candle to him, imo. It would simply be heaven if he were our president.

[goclark]

4. Outstanding!

Please write your letter in the sky so everyone can read it! It is exactly the Wesley Clark that I see too.

Why are they blocking his message? I don't get it?
The next few days are so critical to his campaign. Let's all go to his website and donate, after reading your letter I donated.

Congratulations! :toast:

[ben_thayer]

5. Bravo!

Well said Sir! These are some of the reasons I voted for him in the Mi caucus. I will fully support any Dem nominee, but think Wes Clark has "The Right Stuff" to hammer Bushco in November.
Thanks!

[MariaS]

7. While I will only vote for Wes Clark

While we all bicker and argue about who is the best candidate, it is continually disregarded that the person we elect to go against Bush in Nov will need to posses a huge variety of skills and experience. Because once Bush is out and we are in there, there is going to be a humongous amount of issues to deal with overseas and here at home. And it is imperative that our eventual candidate be able to appeal to all aspects of our society in order to bring this country together as a working unit or we will accomplish nothing. It's easy now to hold up someone like Kerry as a beacon of liberalism but that will become a liability when in the GE only approximately 30% of the voters are liberal.

The Democrat we choose will have to have traits and a history to appeal across the board and being a liberal isn't something that Republicans and Independents necessarily rush to embrace. And I can't speak for others but beyond ABB don't you want a President who is multi-dimensional. Wes Clark embodies the best of all the candidates and if we let him slip thru the fingers of America it will be a serious lost to not just our country but to the World. I don't know whatelse Wes Clark can do to make people see he is our best possible choice to get this country back on track. He has laid it out for all the world to see. His life is an open document on display for anyone who cares to look.

His skeleton closet is empty and he has put his life's work and his reputation on the line for what he believes in and to help once again defend the country he loves. That says it all for me. An open and transparent candidate means an open and transparent President. I wish I had more faith in the people of this country but I don't. When this is all over and our candidate is chosen if it isn't Wes Clark then come November I will write his name in because I will have the satisfaction of knowing that I voted for the best possible choice and I will never vote in this country again because I will know that it all means nothing.

[vanityfair]

8. He'd get my vote

While I can't vote for your president (LOL), if I could, I would vote for Clark. I think America needs a leader with military experience precisely because of the messes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Clark also strikes me as very organized, responsible, and successful. I believe he could deal equally as well with domestic and foreign issues, and promote some order in the country, instead of the chaos that has been prominent for the past 3 years.


Keep your neighbours happy! Boot out Bush in 2004!

[Jerseycoa]

9. I wish I could join you

:hi: