Wesley Clark is your new lord, master
by Sean Reid
October 04, 2003
Last week, there's one thing Miss Jamila Johnson forgot to mention in her dee-lightful opinion piece on General Wesley Clark: I said "All Hail Wesley Clark" first.
Not to get all schoolyard on you, but it's the truth. And dang it, that's a tagline I fully expect to carry the attribution of my name once it starts appearing on bumper stickers aroundSeattle, the liberal paradise.
"Hail him? Why whatever for?" you may ask.
There's a very simple reason, lefties. He's probably the best chance we've got for turning this country back from its downward spiral into a needless war mongering, gay marriage hating, no environment saving, Big Brother fascist state.
Not Kerry. Not Gephardt. And certainly not Sharpton.
"But you forgot Howard Dean, man! The Dean machine will save us!"
Okay, yes, I admit my hopes laid among the Dean camp for quite some time, in part because of his policies, but mostly because over the summer months I began to see he was the best shot for beating Bush. Heck, my heart almost skipped a beat when I heard rumors ofClarkrunning under his ticket as the VP. It seemed like a combo destined to succeed.
All that has changed.
Now, my boy Clark is currently the front running Democrat to jump into the White House, drop Dubya with a kung fu kick, and then show him the door back toTexas.
Dean, you see, makes the older, more traditional folks in the party nervous. He's angry, radical and his approval rating among women and the more liberal-challenged areas of our fair nation (read: The South) remains precarious.
Clark has the key players in the Democratic Party salivating because of a great many things:
1) He's a war hero.
2) He has strategists from the Clinton administration working on his campaign.
3) His roots in Little Rock, Ark., give him Southern cred.
4) His website (draftwesleyclark.com) has raised nearly $2 million, and, oh yeah, he's ahead of every other major Democratic candidate as well as President George W. Bush, according to a Sept. 24 Gallup poll.
So label me the equivalent of a loyalty-wavering Mariner fan if you must, but while you're doing that, I'll be over here, on the side that's going to win the presidency.
Get ready for all the Wesley Clark opinion columns, because they're coming.
Back in early '99 and 2000, this here newspaper was besieged by editorials endorsing one Ralph Nader, former Green Party presidential candidate and advocate of workers' rights and legalizing weed. Week after week, you'd find 700 words and a headshot regurgitating the press releases off Nader fansites. Yeah, they all freely admitted Nader was a long shot, but it was all about the morals! And voting your conscience! The two political parties were the same corrupt, corporate-run organizations anyway! Vote for a man of the people!
Needless to say, in the aftermath of Election 2000, diehard liberals were left pissed.
Some bitter Bush haters blame Nader and his "Naderettes" for stealing votes and sending us to our current state of crappy affairs (forgetting, though, that Gore ran a lackluster campaign).
Ladies and gentlemen, I tell you Gen. Clark is not our Ralph Nader, or Al Gore for that matter.
More opinion columns praising his obvious bank-ability and decent political policies (somewhere near 180 degrees of the Bush administration, a.k.a. Evil, Inc.) will only do his steamrolling campaign, and ultimately, our country, more good.
Remember when the last presidential election displayed the inherent partisanship of the country? The final tallies ended up looking 50/50 in numerous states, except where respective party strength was high.
The last election, despite being a dark day for all things democratic, showed every American with a TV and whiteboard that each vote truly does count.
So, it's important you register your butt and then come November 2004, fill-in the circle completely with a No. 2 pencil. Go online to register (www.beavoter.org), and follow the simple instructions according to whatever state in which you claim residence.
Help get this country back on the right path and vote for Wesley Clark. |
