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

To: Dale Baker who wrote (929)	12/19/2003 2:30:59 PM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 1414

Dale Once being in the military and being a street bum has little to do with anything. Many more vets have great lives. It is a shallow argument. I am career military and I have seen many of those who live on the street. In most cases the military had nothing to do with their problem. No different than the young kids selling themselves on the streets. A bigger problem is seeing VA beneifts being taken away especially to those injured in a war.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (929)	12/19/2003 2:39:26 PM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 1414

I like many others was attracted to Wesley Clark because he was once a senior military leader, but so far I have seen little from him to get my vote. John Kerry's post military history is move impressive than is Clark's. But I am not impressed with John Kerry either. Howard Dean is the man to beat at this point, hands down.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (929)	12/21/2003 12:56:52 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 1414

Young to campaign with Clark in S.C. ajc.com By MATTHEW C. QUINN The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 12/19/03 Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young plans to campaign with Wesley Clark in South Carolina on Sunday, but refused Thursday to say the joint appearances will constitute an endorsement of the retired general's presidential campaign. "An endorsement is telling other people what to do and I don't like to do that," Young said in a telephone interview. "I don't think I ever made an endorsement." Young, an ordained minister and onetime lieutenant to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., said he would appear with Clark at two African-American churches, where he expects to speak from the pulpit. He also plans to appear with Clark at South Carolina Democratic Party headquarters, where Clark is expected to present qualifying petitions to appear on the ballot in the state's Feb. 3 primary, the first in the South. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), who has endorsed Clark, is expected to join the two. Young said the purpose of the trip is to "get to know" Clark. "You can call it what you want," he said. Asked whether he would appear with any other presidential candidates in South Carolina, Young said, "Probably not. But I might in Georgia or Texas. I don't know." But Meighan Stone, a spokeswoman for Clark's South Carolina campaign, said the campaign is "excited" about Young's appearance. She declined to say whether Clark expects Young's endorsement. Young, 71, is among the nation's best-known African-American leaders. He was elected in 1972 as Georgia's first black member of Congress since Reconstruction, was a key backer of Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign and served as Carter's U.N. ambassador. He later served twice as Atlanta's mayor. His appearance with Clark is part of a scramble by the presidential candidates to line up support from black leaders before the South Carolina primary, when African-Americans are expected to account for half the electorate. Word of Young's plans leaked last week just as Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri picked up South Carolina's most highly sought endorsement from U.S. Rep. James E. Clyburn, the state's senior black politician. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois has endorsed former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and appeared with Dean earlier this month at an African-American church in Columbia. Jackson's father, a South Carolina native and two-time presidential candidate, has declined to endorse any candidate, although he has praised Dean. And last week, Dean showcased an endorsement from Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. But it's not clear whether endorsements will translate into votes. "I don't think endorsements mean much," said the Rev. Al Sharpton, who doesn't have many but leads among black South Carolina voters in the polls. "That's overblown by people who don't understand the African-American community." Endorsements are also not forever. State Rep. Brenda Lee of Spartanburg, an influential African-American lawmaker, endorsed Dean early in the campaign, but on Saturday announced her support for Gephardt. "I made the decision after the Dean people didn't see fit to return my phone calls," she said. "I figured they didn't need my support anymore." Lee said she could not assess the impact of Young's support for Clark -- should he offer it. "It's not Jim Clyburn's endorsement. That's for sure," she said.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (929)	12/24/2003 10:09:20 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 1414

Coleman Endorses Clark For President nbc4columbus.com Coleman To Serve as Ohio Campaign Manager POSTED: 10:41 AM EST December 23, 2003 UPDATED: 11:25 AM EST December 23, 2003 COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Democratic presidential hopeful Wesley Clark got his first endorsement from a big-city mayor when Columbus' Michael Coleman announced he supports the retired general. Coleman also held a news conference on Monday to announce that he will serve as Ohio campaign manager for Clark and actively campaign for him. "I intend on engaging in this race," Coleman said. "My endorsement is not an endorsement in name only. I'm going to campaign for this man because I believe in him." Coleman, who sent a letter to Clark in July urging him to join the Democratic race, said he had evaluated the nine-candidate field and concluded that Clark is "head and shoulders above the rest." "This is as big an endorsement as we've gotten so far," said Clark for President spokesman Eli Segal. "As big an endorsement as we can get going forward as Wes Clark puts it: Endorsements are of two kinds. There are the kind of automatic ones and then the ones that really make a difference." Clark spoke by phone from Columbia, S.C., where he was campaigning for that state's Feb. 3 primary. He predicted Coleman's endorsement will translate into votes in Ohio and elsewhere because Coleman "works where the rubber meets the road -- down in a city. He carries enormous credibility." Coleman, the city's first black mayor, will campaign for Clark in South Carolina, where roughly half of the Democratic voters are black. Clark campaigned there Monday with two other black leaders, Andrew Young, the former U.N. ambassador and Atlanta mayor, and Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of New York.