as far as Clark's progressive bonafides, here's a paragraph:
Clark's '04 tax proposals; his stance on singlepayer health care; his education benefit proposals for lower and higher education ($6,000 for first two years of college to those of families making under $150,000 and universal pre-school system--not tax credits)proposals; his renewal energy stance and work on Global Warming, his '04 primary endorsement by various gay and minority groups, his public calls for the fairness doctrine to be reinstated; his work on fair and secure election via his podcast programs; his fight for Affirmative Action via written support via Supreme Court case; his Aids program proposal touted by Jesse Jackson; his work on Rwanda, Kosovo and Darfur against Genocide; his stance against going into Iraq starting in 2002; his public claim to the word "Liberal" on national teevee, his televised defense of Michael Moore via the right to Free Speech when no one else would; his public discussions and denouncements of PNAC/Neocons in print and electronic media; his tireless work for Democrats in the 2004 and 2006 elections; his making it known that military budgetary items would be "on the table" for cutting if he were to be elected as President; his announcing we should be working to install a counterprevailing institution to the Military Industrial Complex via a similar organization as Kucinich's Peace Department and that we should resign ourselve to "buying" our oil at the going rate as opposed to attempting to manipulate the world markets; his public calls that we talk to Iran not Bomb them (before anyone else did); his supporting fair trade not free trade; his innovative ideas on Labor Unions and how they can return to the power they once were in our economic system; Publicly criticizing the politization of our science--all actions and words that clearly defines General Clark as more liberal than most-- But yes, Gen. Clark is actually a stealth liberal who is perceived as a moderate based on his 37 years of military service; which makes his progressiveness that much more powerful and effective.
Please Read on, cause there is sooo much more!
Reviews on Wes Clark’s views on various issues and other pertinent information:
as seen via editorials & Articles:
Taxes-
http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2004/02/18/opinion/myers.html
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2004/01/07/003/58645
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2006/11/17/192456/21
Health Care :
http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/1/30/17455/5250
http://www.muhajabah.com/clarkblog/2006/01/clark_supports_singlepayer_hea.php
Education :
http://www.house.gov/ed_workforce/hearings/107th/edr/impaid110801/clark.htm
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/clark.interview.pdf
He Wrote an Amicus Brief in reference to the U.of Michigan Affirmative Action case.
Amicus Brief To the United States Supreme Court,
February 19, 2003
Based on decades of experience, amici have concluded that a highly qualified, racially diverse officer corps educated and trained to command our nation’s racially diverse enlisted ranks is essential to the military’s ability to fulfill its principal mission to provide national security.
The primary sources for the nation’s officer corps are the service academies and the ROTC, the latter comprised of students already admitted to participating colleges and universities. At present, the military cannot achieve an officer corps that is both highly qualified and racially diverse unless the service academies and the ROTC use limited race-conscious recruiting and admissions policies.
http://www.texasforclark.com/affirmative.htm
More on Affirmative Action & Human Rights-
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/2004-01-05-clark-women_x.htm
http://www.clark04.com/articles/010/
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Wavecrest - the company Clark started after he retired....
But right now, General Clark wants to talk about bicycles.
The retired general has been devoting much of his time to running a company making a new kind of electric motor that does not require gears or a transmission, but uses computer algorithms to maximize torque and efficiency. The company, WaveCrest Laboratories of Dulles, Va., hopes to put these motors into hybrid gas-electric cars or even hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars one day. But for now, WaveCrest is focused on bikes. By adding one of its "adaptive motors" to a conventional bicycle
frame, WaveCrest claims that its two-wheeler can go Lance Armstrong speed - 30 miles an hour - with hardly any pedaling at all.
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That sweet spot occurs in many electric motors when they are spinning at thousands of revolutions per minute. When used in a vehicle, some kind of transmission or reduction gearing is needed to slow things down so the wheels can turn at their proper rate, said Elias Strangas, an electrical engineering professor at Michigan State University. WaveCrest's design could eliminate the need for a transmission or gears by getting the motor's r.p.m. to match the wheel's needs. Small motors could even be put at the wheels themselves instead of having one large motor under a car's hood. The WaveCrest bicycle relies on such a setup.
These so called in-hub motors could drastically cut the weight of a hybrid or fuel-cell car, Mr. Brauer said. And that could allow the car to carry extra batteries and extend its range.
http://greenspeed.us/wesley_clark.htm
More on Science, environment & energy:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2006/jun/10/566627991.html
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May05/Commencement/Clark_speech.html
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html3month/2006/060105.Ingrao.Sears.html
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2005/05-007.html
http://securingamerica.com/taxonomy/term/74
http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_marcher.asp?2724
http://energybulletin.net/15587.html
http://www.clark04.com/press/release/167/
Emergency Preparedness Expert:
Clark has been involved in emergency preparedness for a long time as well....before he ran for any political office! Now wouldn't that be nice to have in addition to everything else Clark offers in expertise, a real expert on that subject. Wouldn't have to have him wait for a briefing....
http://www.wittassociates.com/
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_March_23/ai_n13467014
http://www.muhajabah.com/clarkblog/2005/06/general_wesley_clark_former_na.php
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Clark at the Humanities Festival with his Wife and being interviewed there by Samantha Powers, Pulitzer award winning author for her book: Problem from Hell...
America and the Age of Genocide
Earlier working titles apparently included The Guilty Bystander and Again and Again: Fifty Years of Genocide and American Bystanderhood, but it was presumably determined that these hit too close to home and so the benign, non-finger pointing title won out
2003 National Book Critics Circle award winner
2003 Pulitzer Prize winner (for general non-fiction)
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/ghistory/powers.htm
See first hand report on that event here.....
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/9642
More on war and peace:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/general-wesley-clark-take_b_22672.html http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/01/31/wes_clark_raised_the_bar.php
Ps. And don't forget that Wes Clark is a true intellectual who quotes Plato regularily.....a Rhodes Scholar who graduated from Oxford University who majored in Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, was a [b]White House Fellow, and now a senior fellow at the Burke Center at UCLA--
http://cbs5.com/education/local_story_261160914.html
His first lecture was on torture.
Besides Clark's caring about Rwanda, and Kosovo...there is also Darfur....which he has been concerned and writing about since 2004--
http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/USATODAY/2004/07/06/501055?extID=10026[
Out of time in Darfur
By Wesley Clark and John Prendergast | Jul 06 '04
For the past year, the international community has shamefully acquiesced to the crimes against humanity occurring daily in the Sudanese province of Darfur.
http://www.eamedia.org/2005/nr05/01.php
US FORCES SHOULD INTERVENE IN DARFUR, SUDAN – GEN. WESLEY CLARK
Almaty, Kazakhstan, April 23 – “US forces with a [United Nations] mandate and adequate cover should go in and stop the ethnic cleansing and genocide in Darfur,” he said in answer to a question. “It has gone on long enough. Enough is enough. It must stop.”
Also, Clark is a board member of this group here:
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=3060&l=1
as a Vice Chair -- of which George Soros is a chairman...
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=1139&l=1
And here's some information on the Rwanda-Time line, and some comments about Wes Clark's involvement in attempting to get something done about it.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/4018.html
Other tibits!
Mark Kleiman – http://www.samefacts.com/archives/cat_wesley_clark.html
Endorsement by the Washington Blade (largest Gay Newspaper) - http://www.aegis.com/news/wb/2004/WB040109.html
Endorsement by the Native American Times (largest American Indian Publication) http://www.nativetimes.com/index.asp?action=displayarticle&article_id=3440
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040202/lawton
Endorse Wesley Clark by Samantha Powers to Armenian American Community RE-Genocide
http://www.anca.org/press_releases/press_releases.php?prid=503
Opinions of Clark
Col. Hackworth’s change of heart on the Perfumed Prince - http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34738
Rethinking General Wesley Clark - The Left made a big mistake in 2004
http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?id=627&ARCHIVAL=TRUE
Esquire/The General
http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2003/030801_mfe_clark_1.html
Waiting for the General -
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16795
The Unappreciated General/written in 2000
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A51403-2000May1
Boy from Little Rock chooses military path
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/clark/articles/2003/11/16/boy_from_little_rock_chooses_military_path/
The Deserter comment from MM and Clark’s bad press on it - http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2004/01/waldman-p-01-26.html
Attacks on Wesley Clark are laughable at best -
http://aggressive-voice.com/zz585.html
Clark’s call to Rove debunked -
http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20031016c.html
Clark and Pristina Airfield – WWIII attack
http://antidotal.blogspot.com/2003_09_14_antidotal_archive.html
Saddam’s capture doesn’t sway Clark - http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/clark/articles/2003/12/17/capture_doesnt_sway_clark/
Endorsement by Ambassador at the Arab American Institute -
http://www.aaiusa.org/gabriel.htm
African Americans for Democratic Leadership http://www.democrats.us/editorial/aadl092203.shtml
Muslim Albanian introduction http://www.kiddingonthesquare.com/2004/01/account_from_a_.html
Other newslinks - http://www.texasforclark.com/hot.htm
http://www.hilltoptimes.com/story.asp?edition=274&storyid=7419
http://wesleyclark.h1.ru/profile.htm
Listing of Awards -
http://wesleyclark.h1.ru/awards.htm
WESLEY CLARK SLAMS MEDIA CONSOLIDATION"I don't think it is in the American public interest to further consolidate the media." Answering this reporter's question, the candidate said media consolidation "is damaging to putting out diverse opinions and fostering public dialogue. ... We need to distribute the ownership in media. We need to have the fairness in broadcasting rules put back in place."
http://www.fradical.com/Presidential_candidate_slams_media_violence.htm
