Wednesday, February 01, 2006
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Yes he was. You just weren't watching C-Span and you let the likes of the punditocracy influence your opinion.
You're right. I didn't watch C-SPAN. But I did read transcripts from debates, public addresses, and interviews -- in addition to getting opinions from pundits. I didn't think he had enough "game" back then. Good on the military stuff and foreign policy, not too clear on the domestic stuff. He's more polished on the domestic issues now. He's a better candidate now, perhaps even electable. Whether he'd be a better leader than Kerry would have been, that's debatable. If Clark was the Democratic nominee, the "Swiftboating" exploitation would have been aimed at his leadership in Kosovo. Bush still would have won the election.
RE: If Clark was the Democratic nominee, the "Swiftboating" exploitation would have been aimed at his leadership in Kosovo. Bush still would have won the election.
You are right that team Bush would try to do something like they did to Kerry with the Swiftboaters....However I have to disagree that an attack on the Kosovo campaign would result in anything but a Clark victory over Bush. Not a single soldier lost and millions of lives saved from ethnic cleansing and all. The only reason it worked on Kerry was because it was ultimatly about the Vietnam protest and Jane Fonda. Yes, Clark was also wounded in Vietnam but he did not come back and protest...rather he continued to serve the country.
If you're inferring that Kerry -- by not continuing to stay in the Navy, and worse, protesting -- didn't serve his country after coming back from Vietnam, then we'll have to agree to disagree. So, would you have voted for Clark in 2004? Looks like he will be running in 2008. You may get your chance. He's certainly a better choice than Hillary.
I personally think "Gore-Clark '08" sounds good to me. There, I've picked another "softy" at the top of the ticket. Let your criticism continue... :)
The debates were riddled with a lot of questions that had nothing to do with policy. So of course you would not have gotten a breadth of Clark's domestic policy. It would have helped if someone actually ASKED him a question ON domestic policy in debates.
You would have had to watch RALLY's. That is where you got to know the candidate. Those rally's were ONLY shown on C-span.
The only rally I attended was a brief Kerry stump stop -- after the Dem convention. Clark spoke, but no longer as a candidate. He was there to pump up Kerry.
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