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piechartking

(617 posts)
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 01:23 PM Jul 2016

Wesley Clark on MSNBC!

Nice to see him again. Post-college, I loved him as candidate to go against W.

Southerner (to peel some Southern states off)
Military resume
Rhodes Scholar
1st in his class at West Point or something
Served in Vietnam in combat role.

too bad he couldn't give a speech.

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tonyt53

(5,737 posts)
1. The guy never sold his soul to the military equipment industry. He also had real combat time.
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 01:25 PM
Jul 2016

Few of the FoxNews guys have ever seen combat in real life.

piechartking

(617 posts)
3. He was talking about the Foreign Policy ramifications of Trump's remarks
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 01:40 PM
Jul 2016

And how the EU and NATO are nervous because what they fear the most is Russia and the USA conducting a "Yalta II" summit where, like after WW2, they divide up Europe between the two Superpowers.

Russia would like nothing better than for the US to do that, screw NATO and the EU and let's just divvy up everything.

And Trump is bumbling right into that path.

Amaril

(1,267 posts)
6. I still have my "Draft Clark" tee-shirt & coffee mug!
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 03:00 PM
Jul 2016

He was absolutely the best candidate -- on paper -- to run against Bush in '04, but you're right -- public speaking was not his forte.

I worked my butt off on his campaign (was the Chief Cat Herder -- i.e., Events Coordinator -- for the local campaign office & a delegate for him to the State convention).

My heart broke into a thousand little pieces during his first debate.

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