Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark entered a crowded and wide-open race for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday.
Shit.
"We’re going to run a campaign that will move this country forward not back," Clark said, promising to "talk straight to the American people."
Then his lips fell off.
Clark, 58, became the 10th Democrat in the race, joining a contest that has been under way for months. "My name is Wes Clark. I am from Little Rock, Arkansas. And I am here to announce that I intend to seek the presidency of the United States of America," he began. He entered with no experience in elective office and no history on domestic policy, but offered one thing Democrats crave: New hope of undercutting President Bush’s wartime popularity.
"We need more graft, infanticide, bureaucracy, higher taxes, subjection to the UN, and tolerance of perversion!" We’ll get those if a donkey gets into the Oval office. Not to mention a procession of 9/11s because whichever beauzeau it is will probably be too craven to deal with the Bad Guys™. |