Reply #5: Good for Kerry, But... [View All]

[Tom Rinaldo]

Clark is the one who shed Democratic blood over this issue. When he got ambushed at the Fox debate on whether he would repudiate Micheal Moore, no other candidate came to Clark's aid. They let him dangle as the media hounds went at him for not forcefully disassociating himself from such reckless charge. No one wanted to talk about it then, Kerry said Moore was "over the top", UNTIL the story about Bush being AWOL began to get the traction that it did. And the story got that traction only because Clark, interviewed on Sunday morning network TV after that debate, DID NOT move into damage control and furiously back pedal. Clark called Moore an important American leader. That story only got traction because initially it was being used as a club to attack Clark with, and Clark took the blows. AFTER Clark was bloodied, McAuliffe, and Kerry, and un named Democrats near and far, puffed themselves up comparing Kerry's Viet Nam record with Bush's, usually failing to even mention Clark's 34 year service to his country in the military, and his Silver Star in Viet Nam.