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| Last Edited | Ced Jan 15, 2004 04:06pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, January 15, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A former Clinton/Gore Staffer endorses Dean over Clark.
"......Dean nor Clark is a Kennedy clone or a Clinton clone - both of whom were Democratic Idols in their time. They are both originals. Howard Dean has spent a long time in public life but in a state so small that nearly everyone would eventually meet him. He had no option but to be who he is - a blunt-talking small-town doctor turned politician - and to his credit he never tried to be anything else. He is not smooth. Praise the Lord.
Wesley Clark spent his whole adult life in the U.S. Army. When he talks to an audience, he projects the straightforward patriotism of the military professional. Clark, like Dean, is unencumbered by the air of tormented compromise that engulfs the other serious candidates. Neither one of them appears to filter their thoughts through a fog of focus-group blather. They've come this far because they both project that most coveted of all attributes - leadership.
But, in the end, I vote for Dean over Clark to be the Democratic Idol because I think Dean has the best chance of any of the candidates in this race to beat George W. Bush. Clark, appealing as he is, is one-dimensional. His campaign is nothing more and nothing less than his biography. His military career is impressive but Kosovo was not exactly the Normandy invasion, and Clark cannot expect the outpouring of American gratitude that took Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to the White House." |
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