Wesley Clark: "It All Comes Back To Leadership", at TPM Cafe

[ClusterFreak]

"Again, just this past week, there was at least 36 hours notice that a major hurricane was going to hit the Gulf Coast, including likely a devastating blow to New Orleans, which certainly came to pass. The President continued with his regular schedule on Monday and Tuesday in California, Arizona, and Texas to hold some staged Medicare events and enjoy more vacation time, while finally returning to the White House yesterday. The joint task force including National Guard set up by the Pentagon failed to be on the scene in New Orleans in a timely manner to stop the looting and assist in the evacuation. Where is the leadership?

Then just this morning, the President claimed that no one could have anticipated the levee breaches we've seen in New Orleans after Katrina hit. That's not leadership, that's an excuse. In fact, people have predicted this kind of disaster for many years, including President Bush's own FEMA in 2001, when they ranked hurricane flood damage to New Orleans among the three likeliest, most catastrophic disasters facing America. Instead, funding was significantly cut back, leaving key engineering projects on hold. Instead, this Administration focused on the war in Iraq, tax cuts, and private sector economic growth without asking the American people to make needed sacrifices for the good of the country. Again I ask you, where is the leadership?"

Read the whole post: http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/9/1/123536/7907

[Selatius]

1. If the Democrats don't put Clark forward as a good nominee for prez...

I will seriously consider leaving the party...

[rateyes]

2. I'm with you...

I'm fricking tired of DINO's. This guy UNDERSTANDS. THE issue is LEADERSHIP. We don't have it, and he can provide it. We need LEADERS who will speak the unvarnished truth--regardless of how it might affect their "election" chances. Truth, in the end, will win out over a lie any day of the week. TRUTHFUL LEADERSHIP.

Clark/Cleland--Proven leaders who've paid the price and stood up when it counted--didn't go AWOL--and have the moral authority to be the commanders-in-chief.

[ClusterFreak]

3. Clark is my first choice for the Dems....

...he's everything your party, your country needs as it heads toward the back end of the first decade of the new millenium. He's an intelligent, thoughtful, careful man, yet a man of action and definitely a man of compassion. His military credentials - his street cred as it were - are unmatched. Too bad I'm Canadian, I'd vote for him if I could. The world needs the next American president to be a moderate, yet firm voice on the world stage. Wesley is all of that. And more.
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edit: having a bad grammar attack tonight!

[wellstone dem]

4. Remember, he's not really a democrat

...if he were he'd be thanking Bush with the rest of them.


edited to add:sarcasm:

[ClusterFreak]

5. So true!!

;-)

[KittyWampus]

6. whoa. wasn't expecting that response. Leadership was Clark's campaign

theme.

and what we see now is America with no leadership.

[sonicx]

8. he was complementing Clark...

;)

[wellstone dem]

9. and insulting the rest of them

(thanks for helping to clear up the misunderstanding.)

[1932]

7. It's not just leadership. Bush is leading the right just fine in their

jihad on the poor and the working class.

This is about a committment to putting people before corporations, and ensuring that American infrastructure has a higher priority than "liberalizing" the economies of foreign countries. It's about the tax code too.

[glarius]

10. The world needs Wesley Clark to be the USA president!

I thought so when he was running for the nomination and I still think so....When he talked, I heard a man who is AWARE of the rest of the world....He knows the U.S.A. cannot go it alone, but needs to be a part of the world community....Perhaps if he had been the nominee, rather than Kerry, he would be president now....He was openly against the Iraq war and SAID SO....