Who is waiting for Wes Clark?
Bernie Quigley is waiting for Wes Clark.
Wes Clark as Bull Dog
Wes Clark should be the bull dog heart of a new Democratic Party movement and a new patriotic era much as Tedy Bruschi is the heart of the New Engalnd Patriots.
Quigley remembered the Clark '04 Campaign, he mentions, in an essay he wrote in late summer this year:
Then at one point General Clark said, “I’m not going to be Howard Dean’s Dick Cheney,” replying to the suggestion that Howard Dean had asked him to be Vice President if he won the nomination, and before Iowa for awhile it looked like he would. It was a brilliant reply as it pointed out to Dean supporters that what they were seeking in Dr. Dean was in fact a figurehead, as President Bush was seen to be an empty and symbolic figure while Dick Cheney ran the country.
But beneath that was an instinct related to the actual work that needed to be done, and there they saw Wesley Clark. I made phone calls and wrote letters for General Clark throughout the New Hampshire primary season and the same people that liked Howard Dean at the beginning genuinely liked General Clark as well.But this was disturbing: they seemed afraid of him. They were afraid of him because although they could see that he was a gracious and gentle man, he was a Southern General. And he was a Southern General who spoke without duplicity. When George W. Bush said he would bring Osama Bin Laden back “dead or alive” it was the hubris, bluff and extended innocence of a man who had never truly served his country in uniform.
When General Clark, who had come back from Vietnam literally a basket of wounds and broken bones, said the same thing, it meant it would be his head on a pike. And people knew, we knew what had to be done, we were just not quite ready to do it yet.
Are we ready yet, Bernie?
Bernie answers, "It has been my feeling from the beginning that when we are ready to face the music we will turn to Wesley Clark."
