Reply #8: During the convention

[Donna Zen]

while doing an interview with Matthews, Clark referred to MM as a courageous and patriotic American. The General may not agree with the term "deserter" since it may be technically inaccurate. Also, Wes has said that any comment on junior's record should be left up to the military.

What Clark took the hit for was defending MM's freedom of speech. Wow! Now there's a concept (/snark)

The original letter I wrote included a paragraph about Clark and Moore; but I decided that the message needed to be confined to one battle at a time (chose your mountains carefully.)

FWIW, Clark was not on stage or even in the room when Moore made his statement. Clark of course would have still continued to defend Moore's rights, but it does change the image and Clark's relationship to the circumstance. Peter Jennings and the mediawhores he rode in on can go straight to PNAC hell.

The most bitter part of this story from my perspective, was after running with their collective rat's-ass-tails between their legs, the DNC quickly promoted Kerry's credentials v bush once the discovered the story "had legs." IOW, Clark takes hit; Kerry takes credit.

Now this Moore shit!

If it wasn't for the REAL party, the Democrats I know and love, I would quit in a nano second out of the sheer embarrassment of being associated with a bunch of dumb as dirt assholes (read: so-called leadership.)