Reply #40: Further Information

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

The Draft Wesley Clark movement was founded in late 2002. Clark blogs started going up around that time, including Yahoo! Groups in almost every state in the nation. The national Yahoo! Group devoted to Clark was established on October 17, 2002.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wesleyclark2004/?yguid=52461176

The comments made by Clinton, apparently overheard by another reporter that Clark was one of the two stars in the Democratic Party occurred on September 9, 2003, nearly one year after the Draft Clark movement was started. At the above Yahoo! Group's main page, you will see that the group alreadyhad 721 blog entries in May 2003; 3311 entries in June 2003; 4548 entries in July 2003; 5733 entries in August 2003, and 9495 entries in September 2003. Again, the Draft Clark grassroots movement, second only to Dean on the internet has been there all along, through many hard months. The fact that no one has paid attention to it and that Internet campaigning is attributed only to the Dean organization is the "nonsense". I admire the Dean campaign's organization and energy. But I think the Clark Internet grassroots campaign is even more extraordinary, because for many months they continued with no money, no formal candidate, and a would-be candidate who had no experience or organization and was not an insider. I think the Clark grassroots Internet campaign is truly the untold story of this election so far. Even more extraordinary is the fact that the media has completely ignored this large and vocal movement, despite the Clark bars, Meet-Ups, booths, and tremendous outreach all across America. But then in America, reality doesn't matter and perception is everything. Dean is now perceived as the Internet grassroots campaigner and Clark is seen as the Clinton machine's candidate. But when you use the term "suckers" as your original post did, I think you should be very, very sure that you have fully weighed the facts in order to know exactly who is being suckered.