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Welcome aboard, sir. Clark's announcement that he was running landed like a rocket-propelled grenade in the messy bunker that is the Democratic presidential field. He's off to a late start, but thanks to an Internet-driven draft movement, Clark has the beginnings of an organization and the promise of millions of dollars. Making the rounds of Democratic salons in New York and Los Angeles in recent weeks, he has wowed some of the people who could gather millions more. Within 24 hours of getting into the race, Clark had a list of congressional endorsements more impressive than...
...fact, for Gillis and others like her who joined the draft-Clark movement that sprang up over the Internet this summer, there was something of a Field of Dreams quality to it all. They had built it; he had come. In that sense, the Clark blitz has less to do with the candidate than it does with the political landscape around him. Even as Democrats are beginning to believe for the first time that President Bush may actually be vulnerable, they are increasingly worried that they have not yet seen the Democrat who can beat him. Many are intrigued...
...1990s, Clark was serving as the director of policy and planning for the Joint Chiefs, a position in which his deft political touch and a capacity for poor judgment were on display. He played a key role in stopping an early round of bloodshed in the Balkans, helping to draft the Dayton accords that halted the killing in Bosnia. But he stumbled when he met and swapped military hats with Ratko Mladic, a Bosnian Serb general the U.S. had branded a war criminal for the indiscriminate killing of Bosnian Muslims. The meeting infuriated the State Department. Clark later apologized, saying...
Eight different draft beers...
...commission is expected to meet frequently in the upcoming months and will draft a new capital punishment bill by next year, which will then be presented to the legislature in 2004,” Romney said...