General Wesley Clark Broadcasting Special Message Tonight

[Catch22Dem]

In a taped piece that will be broadcast live at 8:04 p.m. (20:04 military time) via webcast on http://www.DraftWeselyClark.com, potential Democratic Presidential candidate, General Wesley Clark will address the MeetUp members and thank them for their support.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=140-09082003

Forgive me if this has been posted...I couldn't find it.

[Hotdiggitydog]

1. http://www.draftwesleyclark.com/

http://www.draftwesleyclark.com/

Here is the correct website....

[newyawker99]

18. Hi Hotdiggitydog!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Democat]

2. Will he be announcing anything important?

:)

[Must_B_Free]

3. what a coincidence

after the Corporate media lets Bush announce what a washup he is.

[Khephra]

4. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=103128

[Gloria]

5. Where on the site do you click to see it??

eom

[Chico Man]

6. I'm having trouble finding that myself (nt)

[Democat]

7. Is the speech on right now?

Does anyone have a direct link to the live feed?

[lanlady]

12. here's the transcript:

Transcript:

Well I want to welcome each and every one of you to the last Draft Wesley Clark MeetUp. You all are changing the face of America by participation in these MeetUps. We haven’t had anything this powerful in American Democracy since 1772 and the committees of correspondence set up by Sam Adams in Boston. And through this activity we’re bringing citizen participation into democracy. It’s a tremendous inspiration to me, and it’s been the encouragement to me to really give serious consideration to joining this race.

I’m approaching a decision and I will have to make a decision by the end of next week. But I just want to say that this is about a lot more than one person. This is about each and every one of you and what this country stands for. We stand for participation, for citizens’ involvement in their government, for keeping up with the issues, for expressing strong opinions and for believing in what our country stands for and our potential for greatness and goodness in the world.

And so I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your dedication, for your faith in each other that’s brought all of you together and to say that we can do great things for America. Each and every one of us working together, working on behalf of the causes we believe in and helping to make this country strong and great and good. Thanks so much for being part of this MeetUp and I hope I have a chance someday to meet each and every one of you and thank you personally. You’ve been a tremendous inspiration to me and my family.

Thank you.

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Sounds to me like he's leaning toward running.

[shihtzu5]

8. After seeing speech.....

Sounded to me like this might be his "swan song". Others who saw it, what did you think?

[laruemtt]

9. it feels like we're being dumped

by a fantasy :cry: :grouphug:

edited to say i'm certainly open to being wrong...

[Prodemsouth]

10. Yeah, gotta say this sounds like a send off to me.

Hope like hell I am wrong,

[Prodemsouth]

11. No I got a better feeling -got it to work - more there than what I thought

saw another DU translation, should have looked more.

[union_maid]

13. Could go either way, but...

I'd say more "yes" to running than "no". There are good reasons not to delcare until after the 15th. No good reason not to say so if he's not. He must have decided by now. The suspense is killing me, though.

[lindashaw]

14. If he wasn't going to run, I think he would have said...

that he had considered everything and decided that it wouldn't work. Don't you think so?

[MGKrebs]

16. au contraire,

I think if he was going to run, he would have said so by now. This way, he gets to keep himself in the news even though he is not running.

But, hey, I could be wrong.

[Hawkeye-X]

17. Clark is not running

....shades of Al Gore's SNL skit right before he isn't announcing.

Sorry Clarkites, maybe he'll accept a VP position instead.

Hawkeye-X

[RaRa]

15. Can somone give me the gist of it?

I apparently don't have the software needed to hear things from that site. What did he say?

On edit, never mind - saw the postings in the general fourm.