Clark takes down-home approach in campaign (Pgh Post Gazette)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/election/20040102clark0102p2.asp

There were clearly more thrilling places to celebrate New Year's Eve than on a two-hour family fun cruise around Portsmouth's harbor, especially for a man who has done champagne toasts with world leaders and lived on four of the world's seven continents.

But there was not even a hint of condescension in the voice of Ret. Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark as he compared the Portsmouth cruise with its nacho and beer bar and shiny plastic horns to one he and his wife Gertrude took on New Year's Eve in Panama when he was Commander-in-Chief of the United States Southern Command from 1996 to 1997.

On the heels of a two-day eight-state "True Grits" tour of the South, Clark had the relaxed air of a man on a night off as he greeted voters on the upper deck and laughed at the children stumbling their way around the boat in a conga line.

In the 3 1/2 months since he entered the Democratic presidential race, much has been made of Clark's difficulty transitioning from the regimentation of his 34-year military career to the helter-skelter life of a presidential candidate.

But with less than a month before the New Hampshire primary, it seems that the general has finally learned how to stroll, even dawdle, talking to voters as some of his more exasperated campaign aides can attest.

[Alice Franken]

1. Thanks for the article!

I wish I had been on the cruise...grumble grumble...but glad to hear how well he seems to have done.

:yourock:

[maddezmom]

2. good article

and nice to see he may have picked up a female Lieberman supporter. :)

[Alice Franken]

3. Well, we all know

Lieberman ain't getting the nomination, so it would be great if she realizes that and votes for Clark in the primary! (bet she will)

[Toucano]

4. Thanks. n/t