Reply #50: Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

[Donna Zen]

Two, they saw Clark as an evil nonetheless, someone who could beat Bush but who was still a maverick outside of their control.

Clark said things that sent alarms bells ringing off the wall. First, early on and repeatedly he said that he would cut the defense budget and provide a stronger defense. He elaborates upon this in "Winning Modern War," and explains how the corrupted system works. A new and needed weapon gets passed, but the old system it is replacing is a pet of a congress critter looking after the pork in their district. Not only does the old weapon stay put, it gets an increase in funding. This practice is sos for both sides of the aisle. Both sides use it to keep getting elected. A decision by a four star general turned POTUS to do a line by line cleaning of the military budget must turned their blood cold, not to say the temperature on K-Street. He said, "We will cut the spending by taking out the waste, fraud and abuse. And we will start with the budget that I know best--"the make-want buget."

Second, at the end of the Heinecker town meeting, Clark told a questioner that he would roll back the media ownership to 1987 standards. Do we wonder why even today, after Clark has suspended his campaign, when CNN scrolls the current delegate count, Clark's name is not included. Dean's is.

For all of the repeating of the meme, "he's bad on the stump" or "he's a poor campaigner" why did Elizabeth Drew not only refer to Clark as eloquent, but says she has not experienced the energy in a room at a Clark rally since RFK? Drew has seen them all, and she surely knows. One Dean supporter who went to a Clark town meeting wrote that he didn't know what made him get in line to shake Clark's hand; he just had to touch him.

The powers that be knew that if Wesley Clark ever got out of the box, he had the ability to talk to the American people; he had the authority to convince the American people of what needed to be changed. And yes, they would never be able to control him. Honor, Duty, Country....that is what controls Wesley Clark. And that is not business as usual.