If he runs, he will be the most qualified of all those who now aspire to the office in 2004. If he runs, General Wesley K. Clark (Ret.) will be the second most qualified person to ever seek the presidency of the U.S. over the past 100 years, second only to the Great William Jefferson Cliinton. What follows are excerpts from an article about him in a recent Esquire magazine.
He is a remarkable man with an unassailable integrity -- the kind of man that has all the little Bushites shaking in their boots. If he runs, I will vote for him. Run, Sir Clark. Run.
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And so, yes, Wesley K. Clark is what the people of the United States of America generally like their presidents to be—or at least feel comfortable with their presidents being: a veteran. But there's more to it than that, of course; he's more than just a veteran, a guy who heard the call of his country and marched and drilled and slogged and shot people and got shot at and did his time and opened up a nice little law practice somewhere. He chose the Army. He was offered scholarships everywhere, but he chose West Point, where he finished first in his class as a plebe, first in his class as a senior, and went off to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.
"There has been since 9/11 a chill on dialogue in this country. . . . You only have to listen to talk radio or watch Mike Savage on MSNBC, and you'll see the spirit of what's out there. You can't have a democracy when people don't get the facts and when people don't get the chance to agree or disagree. We've got to have a dialogue in this country . . . that is premised on an understanding that asking questions, demanding evidence, and holding people accountable is not unpatriotic, it's the duty of every American."