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Decline of the Wes

The Draft Clark movement, allegedly grassroots in nature, is in full-fledged uberPolitical high-falutin' infighting slendor. I love it!

Must Read Blogging: Patriot Paradox - Wesley Clark: A Primer

NOT QUITE RIGHT - an opinion about Clark.

More about infighting in the Clark campaign.

Wes might be smart but his campaign staff are dumb.

Clark Violates Campaign Law?

Retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark may have violated federal election laws by discussing his presidential campaign during recent paid appearances, according to campaign finance experts.

Clark, a newcomer to presidential politics, touted his candidacy during paid appearances at DePauw University in Indiana and other campuses after he entered the presidential race on Sept. 17. Under the laws governing the financing of presidential campaigns, candidates cannot be paid by corporations, labor unions, individuals or even universities for campaign-related events. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) considers such paid political appearances akin to a financial contribution to a candidate.

Clark May Have Broken Law in Paid Speeches (washingtonpost.com)

Our Man Wes sez Rush Limbaugh should be fired for saying the media like Dononvan McNabb because he's black.

All Stars, No Cattle

Our Man Wes is taking a brutal beating from all sides. Ah, well -- sooner or later he will get his act together.

However, the Clark phenomenon is actually not yet a phenomenon, except in the hyperventilating or the "hardball media" where hyperventilating passes for insight. The political correspondents of the major media could put lipstick on a sow and make her the homecoming queen for Saturday night.

But Sunday morning always follows Saturday night. Wesley Clark has yet to demonstrate that he is more than a figment of media hyperventilation, and the polls that show him to be "the leading candidate" are misleading. The pollsters are asking everybody, including a lot of people who won't have anything to say about it. A Baptist preacher in Tupelo may have definite ideas about who the cardinals of Rome should choose to succeed John Paul II, but you might as well ask the Vatican cat.

A slight pause for course correction - The Washington Times: Pruden on Politics

Wes and the Osama of the Balkans

In August 1994, during the height of the Bosnian civil war, Clark came to Banja Luka, met a Serb general and ended up looking like a perfect chump.

The Serb, Ratko Mladic, suckered Clark into exchanging hats and posing for pictures. At the time, Clark was a three-star general and head of operations at the Pentagon.

It seemed like a harmless lark at the time, two generals exchanging snappy covers and smiling for the camera. A few jokes, a few laughs, and then off to a lunch hosted by the Serb.

But now Clark is running for president of the United States and Mladic, indicted for war crimes in 1995, is a fugitive with a $5 million U.S. price on his head, the Osama of the Balkans.

Backcountry Conservative: More on Mladic and Clark

This guy is obssessed with Our Man Wesley.

"Wesley & Me": A Real-Life Docudrama

A second letter, dated Sept. 23, does refer to that bloodshed. Moore recalls his own opposition to the war while summarizing news reports that Clark wanted to utilize ground troops, a move that might have reduced the number of civilian deaths. But the follow-up letter doesn’t mention the huge quantities of depleted uranium used in Yugoslavia under Clark’s authority. Or the large number of cluster bombs that were dropped under his command.

When each 1,000-pound “combined effects munition" exploded, a couple of hundred “bomblets" shot out in all directions. Little parachutes aided in dispersal of the bomblets to hit what the manufacturer called “soft targets." Beforehand, though, each bomblet broke into about 300 pieces of jagged steel shrapnel.

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