Okay... Wes Clark...
Even if he can't win... I want to have said this.
Do you ever, when watching PBS shows (because maybe you live somewhere like Iowa... and you only get PBS and WB)... Do you ever sit there, learning the life story of Lincoln or Jefferson, and think, "Wow! What a confusing complicated man. He'd never get elected today!" or maybe "How did HE get elected?"
I do.
You see, we're trained to look for a package... candidates today get elected because of a package. They sell a package rather than a person, and the package has to make sense. The package has to be orderly, and marketable. The package has to appeal to certain set demographics who are waiting to be told who they can vote for.
And I look at Clark, and I see a man who doesn't make sense. And I like that.
I see a man who was off living a life, while other men were planning to be president, grooming their resumes for it.
I look at Clark, and I'm curious.
There are a lot of folks who rant about how he "might as well be a Republican." And I think they're responding to the fact that he's a fucking general. It's true. And they might be responding to the fact that, as a general in the post-Carter years, he voted for Republican candidates.
Well, duh! And inner-city schoolteachers vote for Democrats. Whatever else they may think about the platform. Because they have a role, a life, a livelihood and a community.
But all this party stuff is bullshit anyway.
He's interesting. INTERESTING and KIND! And on platform points, I don't disagree with him.
My sister, who knows almost everything, read a book called the LONG GREY LINE, about the West Point Class of 66, Clark's class. And we were talking about it.
Can you imagine, being a college student in the early sixties, coming out of Officer training in 66, and going off to war? Two years or five years later, you might have been a different man. But it was 1966. The model was WWII. And when you came back, the world was a different place. But you had decided who you were and you made a life.
And you excelled. You became a General.
But on YOUR military base, you set up social programs for battered women... you did strange things... out of the box things...
And then as the world changed, you grew... you didn't fit into a niche exactly, because you were thinking, changing.
And then, years later, when a herd of random people attempted to draft you as a presidential candidate, you complied!
Dude.... he has been a Jew, a Baptist and a Catholic. How cool is that?
Look... all I know is that my gut tells me he MEANS it. And Everyone else, at best, seems tolerable.
Do you ever, when watching PBS shows (because maybe you live somewhere like Iowa... and you only get PBS and WB)... Do you ever sit there, learning the life story of Lincoln or Jefferson, and think, "Wow! What a confusing complicated man. He'd never get elected today!" or maybe "How did HE get elected?"
I do.
You see, we're trained to look for a package... candidates today get elected because of a package. They sell a package rather than a person, and the package has to make sense. The package has to be orderly, and marketable. The package has to appeal to certain set demographics who are waiting to be told who they can vote for.
And I look at Clark, and I see a man who doesn't make sense. And I like that.
I see a man who was off living a life, while other men were planning to be president, grooming their resumes for it.
I look at Clark, and I'm curious.
There are a lot of folks who rant about how he "might as well be a Republican." And I think they're responding to the fact that he's a fucking general. It's true. And they might be responding to the fact that, as a general in the post-Carter years, he voted for Republican candidates.
Well, duh! And inner-city schoolteachers vote for Democrats. Whatever else they may think about the platform. Because they have a role, a life, a livelihood and a community.
But all this party stuff is bullshit anyway.
He's interesting. INTERESTING and KIND! And on platform points, I don't disagree with him.
My sister, who knows almost everything, read a book called the LONG GREY LINE, about the West Point Class of 66, Clark's class. And we were talking about it.
Can you imagine, being a college student in the early sixties, coming out of Officer training in 66, and going off to war? Two years or five years later, you might have been a different man. But it was 1966. The model was WWII. And when you came back, the world was a different place. But you had decided who you were and you made a life.
And you excelled. You became a General.
But on YOUR military base, you set up social programs for battered women... you did strange things... out of the box things...
And then as the world changed, you grew... you didn't fit into a niche exactly, because you were thinking, changing.
And then, years later, when a herd of random people attempted to draft you as a presidential candidate, you complied!
Dude.... he has been a Jew, a Baptist and a Catholic. How cool is that?
Look... all I know is that my gut tells me he MEANS it. And Everyone else, at best, seems tolerable.
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