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Clark Challenges Kerry on '92 Affirmative Action Remarks
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| Contributor | Eddie |
| Last Edited | Eddie Jan 30, 2004 04:16pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Friday, January 30, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Gen. Wesley K. Clark attacked Senator John Kerry today for statements that the Massachusetts senator made in 1992 about affirmative action, and the retired general also said that Mr. Kerry failed take responsibility for those statements during a debate among the Democratic candidates in South Carolina on Thursday.
General Clark had vowed not to attack his Democratic rivals and recently took them to task for critical comments some had made about Dr. Dean. When fellow candidates assailed Dr. Dean for statements he made regarding Medicare in the mid-1990's, General Clark said that he did not think such history was relevant to the current race for president.
But today, General Clark, who made two appearances here before largely African-American audiences, at Benedict College and at a candidates' forum sponsored by an African-American advocacy group, offered unprompted references to comments about affirmative action made by Mr. Kerry in a speech at Yale University 12 years ago.
"Back in 1992, Senator Kerry wrote it was `inherently limited and divisive' and `fostered a culture of dependency,' " General Clark told journalists after the candidates' forum. "Affirmative action's a very important program to me," adding: "If people want to question it, that's their right. But if they do, they ought to admit it, because we're not going to beat George Bush with old style fudge-it-up politics." |
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