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Politics : Wesley Clark -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (914)	12/18/2003 2:27:24 AM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 1414

The Entire Democratic Party is in trouble!

To: American Spirit who wrote (914)	12/18/2003 11:46:35 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1414

Wesley Clark says jobs aren't coming back salon.com - - - - - - - - - - - - By MIKE RECHT Dec. 18, 2003 \| BERLIN, N.H. (AP) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Wesley Clark said Thursday that even though the economy appears to be getting back on track, jobs aren't coming with it and President Bush doesn't appear to know how to fix the problem. As Clark criticized the Bush administration for lacking a program to create jobs, the Labor Department reported that new claims for unemployment benefits fell sharply last week and reached their lowest level since Nov. 1. "I keep hearing about recovery," Clark said during an interview with radio station WMOU. "You don't see the signs of recovery. People are very concerned with holding onto their jobs and keeping their lives together." While visiting a Main Street restaurant, Clark told patrons the country has lost manufacturing jobs for 40 consecutive months. Berlin relies for jobs almost exclusively from two paper and pulp mills that have been in and out of bankruptcy recently. "The only way to increase profits is to fire people," Clark said of the business mentality. "That's what's happening. Some of the jobs will never come back." He said he would "re-employ America" by pumping $100 billion into the economy. The Labor Department report that new applications for jobless benefits had declined by a seasonally adjusted 22,000 to 353,000 -- a drop much larger than economists had expected -- was another sign the struggling labor market is recovering. Analysts say it likely will be the last sector to fully heal.

To: American Spirit who wrote (914)	12/21/2003 12:21:59 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1414

Soros Doubts townhall.com By Robert Novak December 20, 2003 WASHINGTON -- Left-wing billionaire investor George Soros, who appeared to support Howard Dean for president, now is privately expressing doubts about the Democratic Party's front-runner. In conversations with political friends, Soros confided he has become alarmed by Dean's recent performance and wonders whether the former Vermont governor is capable of defeating George W. Bush. In one such chat, Soros suggested he is interested in retired Gen. Wesley Clark. Soros has made clear his visceral opposition to President Bush and his passionate desire to find somebody who can defeat him for a second term. The financier has pledged $10 million to America Coming Together (ACT) and $2.5 million to MoveOn.org -- both anti-Bush organizations. LUGAR TO STATE? Well-placed sources say Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is the leading prospect to succeed Colin Powell as secretary of State in the second term of a Bush administration. Lugar, a 71-year-old, five-term senator, is close to Powell and shares his less hawkish views of the world. Powell is definitely leaving at the end of the first Bush term. His friend and colleague, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, will leave with him. The choice of Lugar would be enhanced if his former aide, Mitch Daniels, is elected governor of Indiana next year so that a Republican in Indianapolis would select Lugar's successor for the last two years of his term if he leaves the Senate. A footnote: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, once thought to be in line for the top job at either State or Defense in the second term, is reported to have lost favor at the White House. KATHERINE, DON'T RUN Republican sources say that freshman Rep. Katherine Harris may soon be informed that President Bush prefers she not run in a crowded GOP primary for the Senate seat from Florida left open by the retirement of Democratic Sen. Bob Graham. Harris is running first in Florida Republican polls with former Rep. Bill McCollum second and former Housing Secretary Mel Martinez third. Bush strategists believe Harris is running on name identification created by her role as secretary of state during the 2000 presidential vote recount and that her candidacy could hurt the president's prospects of carrying Florida next year. A footnote: Martinez is the president's handpicked choice, but he may have waited too long to quit the Cabinet and go home to Florida. Reps. Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Mario Diaz-Balart have endorsed McCollum instead of Martinez, their fellow Cuban-American. BUSH'S TARGETS George W. Bush's re-election campaign has targeted two states in the upper Midwest -- Minnesota and Wisconsin -- as the most likely "Blue" states carried by Al Gore in 2000 that could turn "Red" in 2004. President Bush's analysts are less optimistic about three big industrial states -- Pennsylvania, Illinois and Michigan -- going Republican. They are viewed by the Bush camp as trending Democratic. The Bush camp is concerned about not only Florida but also Arizona and Nevada remaining Red in '04 because of the increased Hispanic population in those states. For the same reason, New Mexico does not seem a good prospect for Bush, even though Gore won there in '00 with a virtual tossup. POSTHUMOUS ENDORSEMENT Former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois, seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, claims that the posthumously announced endorsement of Howard Dean by her fellow Illinoisan, former Sen. Paul Simon, was limited in scope. Attending Simon's memorial service in Carbondale, Ill., Braun was stunned to hear former U.S. District Judge Abner Mikva in his eulogy say the late former senator before his death expressed support for Dean. She turned to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and whispered, "That (endorsement) applied only to the Iowa caucuses." A footnote: Close associates of Daley say he is concerned about Dean as a general election candidate but has no plans to endorse anybody for president. ©2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

To: American Spirit who wrote (914)	12/21/2003 1:07:22 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 1414

bushin30seconds.org

To: American Spirit who wrote (914)	12/22/2003 9:22:52 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 1414

Clark in Search of Following as Antiwar Warrior washingtonpost.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (914)	12/24/2003 10:24:26 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 1414

Clark's army fights to the east benningtonbanner.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (914)	12/24/2003 10:56:36 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 1414

Award-winning producer Linda Bloodworth unveils her newest film. The biopic, "American Son" is about the life and times of Wes Clark. This moving account features Clark's family, life-long friends and the men and women who served under his command. It details Clark's accomplishments and tells the story of this true American hero. clark04.com *btw, the famous producer Linda Bloodworth produced a video in 1992 (on a man from Hope, AK) that helped get Clinton elected.

To: American Spirit who wrote (914)	12/29/2003 6:19:44 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1414

Clark is staying very competitive in 'the fundraising game'... newsday.com Dean, Clark Lead Dems in 4Q Fund Raising By WILL LESTER Associated Press Writer December 29, 2003, 5:53 PM EST WASHINGTON -- Aided by aggressive Internet campaigns, Democratic presidential candidates Howard Dean and Wesley Clark raised the most money in the final quarter of 2003, according to preliminary estimates. Dean, the Democratic front-runner, will have raised more than $14 million in the final three months, pushing his yearly total to almost $40 million. Campaign manager Joe Trippi called on donors to push the quarterly total to the $14.8 million the campaign raised from July through September. Clark, the retired Army general who entered the race in September, will have raised between $10 million and $12 million in the fourth quarter, for a total of almost $15 million since becoming a candidate. Clark will get an additional bump after the New Year with an estimated $3.7 million worth of federal matching money, while Dean has declined public funds. All the other candidates, except Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, will also receive federal matching funds after Jan. 1. By raising almost as much money as Dean in the third quarter and accepting federal matching funds, Clark should be financially competitive with Dean in the near term. The first contests of the Democratic campaign come with Iowa's precinct caucuses on Jan. 19 and the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 27. Dean's strategy of rejecting public financing has long-term advantages, allowing him to raise more money in the spring and summer, and decide where to spend it, said campaign finance analyst Kent Cooper. Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt told The Associated Press in an interview Monday that he expects to end the final quarter with $3 million to $4 million in new donations, about the same amount as from July 1 to Sept. 30. Gephardt raised $13.9 million in the first three quarters. His campaign also expects more than $3 million in federal matching funds next year. "I think we'll roughly be where we've been in the last quarter. I think we are going to have a good year," Gephardt said. "We are going to have adequate funding with the matching funding to run a campaign in all the early states." Kerry, who also has declined federal matching funds, has raised more than $20 million for the year, though that fund raising slowed in the final quarter. His campaign expects to raise between $2 million and $4 million for the period, in addition to $6.4 million Kerry is loaning the campaign based on a mortgage of his share of his family's home in Boston. Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina has said he expects to raise $20 million by the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 19, and campaign aides said Monday he still expects to do that. He raised $14.4 million in the first three quarters of the year, but his campaign declined to release the fourth-quarter total. Edwards expects an estimated $3.4 million in federal matching funds after the New Year. Campaign aides for Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who raised $11.7 million through the first three quarters of the year, declined to give specifics about his fourth-quarter earnings. The campaign will not raise as much as the $3.6 million raised in the third quarter, but will get an additional $3.6 million in federal funds. Some Lieberman staffers volunteered to postpone their paychecks for two weeks at the end of the year so that more money will be available for the final campaign push. Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich will have raised at least $1.5 million in the fourth quarter and will get $740,000 in matching funds. The campaigns of Carol Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton did not provide details of their fourth-quarter fund raising. No matter how much they raise, the Democratic candidates will face a steep challenge competing financially with President Bush. Bush's re-election campaign had raised more than $115 million by early December, more than the $106 million Bush raised for the 2000 elections.