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To: Don Green who wrote (51)	9/18/2003 5:30:41 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 1414

I want to beat Bush. That means a strong masculine candidate with a Silver Star, who's killed enemy and taken bullets. That means John Kerry and/or Wesley Clark. I support them both, but Clark is the much less experienced outide of military/foreign affairs so he needs time to learn what's what in DC. A natural Veep who can spearhead overseas efforts but is a novice on a lot of key domestic issues. Whomever bets Bush will inherit both a big mess overseas and a big mess at home, not to mention the need to start getting off Arab oil, to unite democrats, Independent and GOP moderates, and to fix our education and health care systems by making them more people-friendly. All of the latter issues are Kerry strengths. Dean, Gephardt, Hillary and the rest are fine people, but they either can't beat Bush or they'd have a very hard time doing so. Gore was the same. He lacked a certain shot of testosterone and let Bush get away with stealing swing-voters looking for a candidate with swagger. Bush has swagger but deep-down he is a big-time BS artist. We need two swaggering candidates who are for-real and tell the truth. Kerry-Clark is a perfect combo. Even CLark-Kerry is Clark made an amazing move to the head of the pack. Realistically though, Clark will serve to flatten the field and make it likely we'l have such a logjam it will end up a brokered convention. Then the immediate loser will be Dean, and no way Hillary's going to step in. If anyone were to step it, it would be Gore, but unlikely. Kerry has his work cut out for him but I still feel he's going to be the last guy standing, or at last one of the 3-4 and the logical choice for the top spot.