Clark and Kos at the Hard Rock
From Larry at Clark Community Network
Wes Clark, The Hard Rock, and Science
OK, I won't be able to write up General Clark's speech at the Science panel and do it any justice. He was great. The room was packed at 8am! And that was after we kept everybody out late at the party at the Hard Rock.
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As for the Hard Rock party, it was held at the Balcony at the Joint in the Hard Rock Casino. The Joint is the music/concert venue at the Hard Rock. Packed house (relieved about this as we only started handing out invites in the afternoon yesterday). Markos gave a short intro for General Clark. Reminding folks that Jerome and Markos started DraftClark.com, but then got tired of waiting and went to work for Dean. Markos told General Clark that he shouldn't have taken so long. General Clark quickly responded, "You should have waited!" Then General Clark presented to Markos one of his military coins. General Clark thanked Markos for all he has done in creating the amazing DailyKos community and all the bloggers for all that they do to fight for what is right.
General Clark then discussed how the netroots must translate all of our energy, enthusiasm, and ideas into votes, including protecting the vote. Someone else will provide y'all more details.
Markos gets his NATO Challenge Coin
One of General Clark's Challenge Coins
The General had such a big crowd to speak to, extemporaneously-- he decided, in order to see the room and address everyone, he jumped up on stool (see pic) to talk to the crowd. He was not miked and able to speak out in his booming voice and fired everyone up with that good old town square off the cuff passion he delivers so very well.He talked about our vote. A lot. About who really won the last election (add question mark to sentence) About Kenneth Blackwell and Wes's conversation with the Mayor of Columbus Ohio -- who expressed to Wes his concern for the integrity of the Dem vote there. Telling him 80% of all the newly registered voters were Dems, but Blackwell didn't want to count their votes. He got enormous cheers on all of it.
He referenced the Founding Fathers in a very funny little bit that basically ended up by telling us all to hit the streets and do all our grassroots work before all our elections - NO excuses for the turnouts we had in the past Primaries.
