Reply #127: If you are going to make charges impugning what... [View All]

[jswordy]

...I post, then at least be very well-read, so that you can know what has been reported and quoted, so you can possibly separate those facts from "conspiracy theory."

Before I go into that, I have never seen anywhere in the credible news media that Joe Lieberman was the DNC/DLC first choice. I have seen stories where DNC/DLC operatives have dissed Lieberman for ill-supporting Gore during the elex run of 2000, then so quickly abandoning and criticizing him. From the aggregate of those news sources, I have concluded Lieberman is no chum of the DNC/DLC.

Now on to your other charges...with my quotes you listed appearing here in italics...

....they injected Clark pre-Iowa to give Kerry time to regroup as his camp was falling apart and to blunt Dean's anti-war message...

...thinking at the time that process would bolt the handpicked Kerry out of the chute faster.

Dean threw a momentary monkeywrench into their plan, but they got ol Wes to right things for them.


All of the above are paraphrased from direct quotes from Gen. Clark, as told to two reporters at the same time, at a gathering of his campaign staff held immediately after he withdrew from the race. Clark then later recanted his quotes, saying he thought they were off the record when he said them. But both journalists said such protection was neither asked for nor offered when the comments were made.

If you will bother to follow the money trail, you will see that Clark's outstanding campaign debt was later quietly retired by DLC operatives. Which, to we "conspiracy theorists," would be a motive for him wanting those quotes to go away.

Then we lost the general.

CLARIFICATION: This quote refers to Democrats losing the general election, not losing Clark.