I am sure Barack's VP choice will be Gen Wes Clark

by indydem99, Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 01:16:24 PM EST

Who better to introduce Gen. Clark than Bill Clinton? Gen. Clark may not sound like a very exciting choice but I think he will be a great asset to the ticket. Here are some great arguments in his favor.

1) He brings solid military experience combined with lot of Foreign policy experience.

2) He is a decorated war hero during Vietnam war.

3) He has no voting record and very little paper trail. He is not a politician and that is a change.

4) He was a Clinton supporter during the primary and could bridge the gap.

5) He is a pit-bull and can be a real attack dog.

6) He has appeared on TV many times and comes across very well on TV. He can make some of the toughest comments with a very smiling face.

7) Best of all he is not the other woman. LOL.

You do not hear this often from me but Kudos to Axelrod, Gibbs and Sen. Obama for the way they handled the media the past few days in answering questions about the Clintons.




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I believed this more about 3 weeks ago (2.00 / 1)

Now, I am thinking he is going for some bland poll like Bayh, or Kaine.

BTW, at least Kaine has an interesting life story, Bayh, on the other hand, wasn't he waist deep in whole Liberate Iraq deal?

I really can't see Obama going there.

Still, Wes or Hillary are one and two for me, with Biden a distant third.

I think your list is dead-on, I would also add Wes has South American experience as well, he was in charge of that theatre first.

AND, he has CEO management type of experience, as managing NATO is like managing a large business.

So, I will jump up and down for either Wes or Hillary.

Anyone else I will just shrug and move on....


On Nov 4th, Barack Obama officially ends the Southern Strategy....
by WashStateBlue on Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 01:23:01 PM EST

I don't know how the diarist (none / 0)

can be "sure," but it would be a pleasant surprise indeed.  The General is the most liberal of the potential Vice Presidents still in play, and a good man to have around in a crisis.  He is the only one, and I do mean the only one who has a chance to thwart the schemes of the miltarists and the defense contractors who hang around the White House with their fancy titles, their air of authority and their dreams of wealth and world domination.  Those folks have a bad way of taking good people like Jimmy Carter and convincing them to waste more money on useless death machines and foreign adventures.  
The remaining DLCers and pro lifers on the list don't seem to do much of anything for anyone, least of all yr obt svt.
by ReillyDiefenbach on Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 01:44:55 PM EST

I support Wes Clark for VP (none / 0)

and it would make my day if BO picked him.

I hope it is not Bayh.  Love the way Gen. Clark went after McCain.


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by NeciVelez on Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 01:52:31 PM EST

And I am sure it will be Biden (none / 0)

Can we both be right?


by Davidsfr on Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 01:52:33 PM EST

You may be right. (none / 0)

Having Bill Clinton introduce the VP nominee would seem to indicate that he'd be introducing someone he knew.


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by vcalzone on Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 02:41:09 PM EST

Re: I am sure Barack's VP choice... (none / 0)

I'd love it. He's a 4-star general, Vietnam vet awarded for his valor, orchestrated the end of violence in the former Yugoslavia without costing a single American life, and is the former SAC of NATO forces.

Wouldn't you love to see the GOP slime machine try and assail this man's patriotism?

In addition, he's off-the-charts, crazy smart -- Rhodes Scholar, if I'm not mistaken, who graduated at the top of his class at West Point.

Oh, and where did McCain finish in his graduating class? 894...out of 899.

I'd love to see Clark, but the bottom line is this: No matter who Obama picks -- Carrot Top, Foghorn Leghorn, Kelly Ripa -- I will do everything in my power to help him get elected.

We can't afford four more years of stupid people in charge.

P.S. Have any of you noticed that Clark never blinks? It's intimidating as hell, but in a cool way.


by BenderRodriguez on Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 02:48:54 PM EST

WELL (none / 0)

I AM FOR

Wes Clark #1 a McCain Killer
Clinton#2 #Unholy Alliance/Historic Landslide
Hagel#3 Psych warfare against the republicans
McCain's old friend is working with us and hopefully bring some disatisfied republicans with him  


President-elect Barack Obama spent the day thanking the people who helped him win the election. Obama's first phone call was to Sarah Palin.
by wellinformed on Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 03:43:00 PM EST


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