Clark Sounded an "Uncertain Trumpet" about the War....when he came in!

[KoKo]

Heard on Judy Woodruff's show... She had a person from a newspaper group and a political consultant from Iowa talking about how Clark's debut had gone in Iowa. (Sorry didn't get their names) They were discussing how Clark's debut had gone in Iowa. The main criticism was that he came into Iowa but didn't stay long enough to get peoples names who showed up, and it would be hard for him to come in so late without a big organization like Gebhardt and the others have.

They then discussed the other candidates and said that Dean was still raising lots of money (Woodruff said, incredulously, "REALLY???" He said "Yes." and they said Kerry was still a good contender, but that Dean's anti-Bush stance early on was making him the strongest candidate because Democrats really wanted to hear strong criticism of his policies. Then Woodruff asked about Clark and how he was so high in the Polls.....and one of the guests said: He was hurt when he made his statement about being for the war and then being against it.....he "sounded an Uncertain Trumpet" about the War and you can't lead troops in unless you have a definite message when Dean already has that issue and it's so important to a growing number of Democrats.

Woodruff seemed surprised that Democrats could be against the war and Bush....but then she's always surprised about anything positive to do with Democrats.....so that's nothing new.

Bu

[oasis]

1. "Uncertain trumpet" same thing Joe Lieberman said about Kerry a while ago.

reporters engaging in "Liebermanspeak". Maybe this is a subtle beginning of a media push for Joe who is a sure loser otherwise.

[Pepperbelly]

2. This one astounds me as much as any of the "issues" against Clark

Gee, the buy expresses some justified ambivilence about the war ... in fact, an ambivilence that paralelled the ambivilence I felt, and all of a sudden he is "waffling."

Sometimes, ambivilence is the only sane and mature reaction. "It's like this on one side, and like this on the other and damn, they both have good points." That's the way people look at things when they operate from reality rather than knee-jerk ideology. Bush certainly wasn't ambivilent and neither were most of those who opposed it. But there was a HUGE group out there that had conflicting conclusions about the damned thing.

[Cha]

3. I remember judyjudyjudy when I still had my cable and she

Pissed me off to no end...if I kept watching that I would have no TV left.

It's like doesn't she do her freakin' homework?