Please thank Mary for finding this excellent interview of General Clark, by The Economist, at The Clinton Global Initiative. It's just over 8 minutes. Wish they all took at least this much time when interviewing him - he packs a tremendous amount of information into a small amount of time that never fails to make one think further!

Dear Supporters of Honourable General Clark:

I just received an e-mail from DCCC. Scott Murphy of New York officially won the Congressional seat from New York State.

As many of you know, we worked hard, together with General Clark, to get Scott Murphy elected.

Peace and All Good!

Michael Matteucig

Click here for the whole article. My comments (and the Clark quote) are below the fold.

John Edwards (no, NOT somw) wins Arkansas Legislative House District 38 after a close race.
From KARK-TV this evening:

Democratic candidate John Edwards wins the State District 38 seat over Republican Kelly Eichler. Eichler requested the recount, after she lost November 4th by only 74 votes. Edwards won the recount with 7,067, 77 more votes than Eichler's 6,990.

Karl Rove had to be cursing the day that John Edwards ever decided to have that blasted affair. Had he but resisted the temptation (or had he not gotten caught)... Karl would never have found himself stuck in the pickle of a predicament he was in on Friday night at the University of Buffalo – Facing down General Wes Clark in a clash of the Titans. Two men who have undoubtedly carved their footprints on American history.

Just in, from one of the Yahoo! groups: Wesley Clark to Replace John Edwards in Debate with Rove

Release Date: September 5, 2008

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- General Wesley K. Clark, U.S. Army (Ret.), will join Karl Rove for this month's UB Distinguished Speakers Series (DSS) election debate. The program is scheduled for 8 p.m. Sept. 26 in Alumni Arena on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.

With all the talk about Obama, Biden, McCain, Palin, etc, I thought it would be fun on this fine Friday to talk about what first brought you to Wes Clark. Did you first hear about him from a family member or friend? Or, was it something you read on the internet? Were you around since the beginning during the Draft Clark days? Or, are you a more recent fan?

The DNC has launched a new campaign titled "Exxon-McCain 08". I think this is a good way of focusing on all of McCain's ties to the oil industry, and with gas prices the way they are currently, this could only do damage to McCain.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12337.html
"Stung by Republican taunts about tire gauges, Democrats are pumping up a stunt of their own..."

This is a hilarious Lunatics and Liars video

It came in an email today from our dear friend John Soltz:

This is a turning point in our history, and the weight of some very serious issues has gotten pretty heavy. Almost no one knows that more than we do. But, it's also important every now and then to take a moment to laugh. There's certainly no shortage of things to chuckle about in our politics and policy debate.

Gen. Clark: McCain Is "Untested And Untried" On National Security

On Tuesday, Sen. Kent Conrad revealed that Sen. Barack Obama is including "former top military leaders" among the approximately two dozen names currently rattling around in a not-so-short vice presidential short list.

Such figures don't come much more "top" in either political party than retired four-star General Wes Clark, the former Supreme Allied Commander Europe for NATO during the Kosovo War. After a late entry into the Democratic 2004 presidential race, in which he won the Oklahoma primary and finished second in three other contests, Clark turned himself into a popular surrogate on the stump for Democratic congressional candidates during the midterm elections.

Relatively new to partisan politics, he seems to have taken to the enterprise with gusto. As an early backer of Sen. Hillary Clinton, Clark traveled in the last year to Iowa, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Ohio, Texas, Indiana and South Dakota. But even now that the spouse of his former Commander in Chief is out of the race, Clark isn't done for the season. In an email pitch to his nationwide network of supporters last week, Clark urged party unity and described the call to elect Obama as a "critical mission."

In a wide-ranging interview with The Huffington Post, Clark offered opinions on the current state of American foreign policy, the Democrats' emergence as a more "full-service" party on security issues, and -- lest anyone doubt his potential use as a running mate for Obama -- the shortcomings of Sen. John McCain.

"I know he's trying to get traction by seeking to play to what he thinks is his strong suit of national security," Clark said of McCain while speaking from his office in Little Rock, Arkansas. "The truth is that, in national security terms, he's largely untested and untried. He's never been responsible for policy formulation. He's never had leadership in a crisis, or in anything larger than his own element on an aircraft carrier or [in managing] his own congressional staff. It's not clear that this is going to be the strong suit that he thinks it is."

Resume aside, though, Clark also took issue with the Arizona Republican's instincts on national security. "McCain's weakness is that he's always been for the use of force, force and more force. In my experience, the only time to use force is as a last resort. ... When he talks about throwing Russia out of the G8 and makes ditties about bombing Iran, he betrays a disrespect for the office of the presidency."

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