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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (458603)	9/14/2003 1:51:33 PM
From: Red Heeler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Dwelling on Clinton's sex life is all they have; double entendre intended. CC

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (458603)	9/14/2003 2:14:51 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Pardon moi? I believe it was laura bush who brought up his sexual appeal. Perhaps you should direct your comments to her. If you don't want a subject discussed, don't raise it. Once you do, it's fair game. Clinton delivered He delivered all right. He delivered the biggest bubble in American history. The fact that your pining for "the good old days" prevents you from seeing that simple fact changes nothing. I don't think there is much the Bush people can do to save him in 04 but Clinton bashing definitely won't work.... at all I do not expect Bush to be reelected. I'm not sure he should be. OTOH, glorifying slick Willie is no counter. He earned every letter of his moniker.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (458603)	9/14/2003 2:47:13 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 769667

Clark rallies partisan troops _______________________________________ By TOM BAXTER The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 9/14/03 ajc.com KNOXVILLE -- Still not committed but sounding very much like a Democratic presidential candidate, retired four-star Gen. Wesley Clark spoke of himself Saturday as a native Southerner who could compete in the region with President Bush. Clark spoke at the Tennessee Democrats' Truman Day dinner, an annual fund-raising affair. It was his last speech before his expected announcement this week that he is entering the presidential race. It was clear that the Army slogan "Be all that you can be" is likely to become a refrain for a future stump speech. "We've got to be all that we can be, and with the leadership of the Democratic Party, we can do that and do that together," the former NATO commander declared. Clark told the Tennessee Democrats that when he retired from the Army, a colleague warned him that in civilian life, "There's no one in charge." "That's never been more true than since January 2001," Clark said, speaking of the presidency of George W. Bush. The speech gave Clark a taste of what it would be like as a Democratic candidate. A large group of supporters from the draft-Clark movement were there to cheer him on. But the featured speaker first had to wait his turn as another presidential candidate, the Rev. Al Sharpton, delivered a stemwinder. Clark spoke with his coat off, and after a slow start he got several standing ovations as the crowd warmed up to his criticisms of administration policy in Iraq and at home. "He gave a rousing speech. He had the troops really fired up," state party Chairman Randy Button said afterward. In an interview earlier, Clark said that as a native Southerner who knows the region, he can compete for votes in states such as Tennessee and Georgia, where Democratic hopes foundered in the last election. "What we need to do is make sure that people understand that they are secure," Clark said. He spoke of economic as well as military security, and especially of the loss of industrial jobs across much of the region. "The South has gone through a lot," Clark said. Clark said he still hadn't reached his final decision, but he appeared all but committed to jumping into the race. "I'd say most of the cards are on the table," he said. Clark said he and former President Bill Clinton had talked about his possible candidacy. "I've talked to a number of people, and he's one of them. I learned a lot from him. He's a very insightful person, and he's had tremendous experience." Both men are Arkansas natives and former Rhodes scholars. Clark charged that the Bush foreign policy had left the country "increasingly isolated and alienated in the world." "From almost the beginning of this administration, we have conducted ourselves with a kind of an attitude that surprised and saddened so many friends of America. We walked out of the Kyoto Treaty. We expressed our determination to break out of the antiballistic missile treaty. We rejected efforts to establish an international criminal court which help prevent the kind of excesses in warfare that we see all over the world," he said. "After 9/11, there was an enormous but brief outpouring of support for America, after which we told our NATO allies that we really weren't that interested in their help." Clark said he understood that while foreign policy and military issues are his strengths, he will need to address domestic issues as well. "We've talked about health care a long time, but we haven't fixed it. We talk about the environment, but we're going backwards. We've been talking about economic growth, but we've lost 2.7 million jobs," he said. Tennessee could be an important state for Clark if he decides to become the 10th Democratic presidential candidate. It's next door to Clark's home state of Arkansas, and it will hold its primary Feb. 10, just two weeks after the New Hampshire primary. Clark has said he will announce his presidential intentions before Friday, when he is scheduled to give a speech on foreign policy issues at the University of Iowa. The former NATO commander has been the object of two separate Internet-based "draft Clark" movements. He has a distinguished military record, but he may be most familiar to many Americans as a consultant on military affairs on CNN, where he has been a critic of the Bush administration's policy in Iraq. Clark worked closely with Clinton during the NATO military action in Kosovo. A number of those being mentioned as possibilities for Clark's team, should he get in the race, have Clinton ties, including Bruce Lindsey, one of Clinton's closest advisers. Although he would be entering the race very late, Clark could make big waves in a field in which the better-known Democrats have struggled while Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, taking advantage of his outsider status, has made his way to the top of recent polls. Dean's campaign last week denied a Washington Post report that the current frontrunner offered Clark the vice-presidential nomination, although it confirmed Dean had asked Clark for his support. Should he jump in, Clark's campaign would almost certainly center around his criticisms of Bush's miliary and foreign policy. Clark warned before the Iraq invasion the U.S. military was not fully prepared for the long term.