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

To: Mephisto who wrote (1072)	1/12/2004 8:26:42 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1414

IMO, Dowd has written much better columns...She missed commenting on the big O'neil revelations about Bush's failure as an effective and honest leader.

To: Mephisto who wrote (1072)	1/12/2004 5:32:59 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 1414

[General Wesley Clark worked as lobbyist] Excerpt from Bill Moyer's interview with Chuck Lewis: MOYERS: "You report that when General Wesley Clark retired from the military, he earned over $800,000 lobbying former pals and peers for airline and homeland security contracts and that he didn't tell us that when he appeared on CNN as a commentator on the war on terrorism. Why would a man do that, thinking he's going to run for President? Because that's bound to be harmful when it is ultimately disclosed? LEWIS: Well, that's sort of what I thought. It's the first time I know of a major Presidential candidate running who's also currently a lobbyist. When he announced, September 17th, he was still registered in Washington as a lobbyist. " ………………………. " LEWIS: Well, we're getting a new phenomenon now, the new shamelessness where people don't care any more. It used to be that a lobbyist ran, people would laugh him out of the room, and it would be unacceptable. Now you have a guy who just got elected Governor of Mississippi and we have a Presidential candidate who not only was a lobbyist, but he was a commentator objectively commentating on the war while he was trying to get homeland security and defense contracts and meeting with the Vice President among others. And I'm not sure CNN knew this, by the way. We talked to CNN. We're trying to get information about what did they know and when did they know it. But ... everyone should have disclosed that. No question." pbs.org COMPLETE INTERVIEW BETWEEN MOYERS AND LEWIS ON SI: Message 19683187