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| Wes Clark : even those from the South and stupid should be represented |
| 2003-11-09 |
| From a press op on the subway in NY Q: Some folks have been saying that his dear friends, Bill and Hillary Clinton, are touting him behind the scenes as a stalking horse for a possible Hillary candidacy. A: "That’s just silly. That’s silly talk. It’s partisan." ? Some of those questioning are Dems.. Q: And what is Clark’s reaction to former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean’s pandering comment that that he, Dean, wants the votes of Southerners, i.e. "guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks"? A: "Well, he shouldn’t have said those things. I think all Americans - and this is a joke! - all Americans, even if they’re from the South and ’stupid,’ should be represented." a joke? He means his candidacy I ’m guessing... Did Clark put the ellipses around ’stupid’? Minutes earlier, the general had grappled with the subtle and complex ways of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority. At the 51st St. station in Manhattan, there had been the usual trouble with the Metrocard. Like a refugee detained at a Balkans checkpoint, the general stood on the wrong side of the turnstile while an aide tried over and over to let him through. "PLEASE SWIPE AGAIN" was the machine’s repeated message. Finally, the aide got the thing to work and the general made his way to the platform, smiling sheepishly and reddening slightly. shades of the trumped up grocery scanner episode with Bush 41 - think the press will note this? Clark continues to show why he’s not qualified to be President - keep on talking, Wes! |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #6 Did Clark put the ellipses around ’stupid’? That's really a perceptive and funny comment, except those aren't ellipses ... those dots are. Those are single quotation marks, and they are used when one quotation uses another internally that requires quotation marks. In this case, the word "stupid" didn't really require quotation marks, so these must be an example of ironic quotation marks (which are contained in the same set as sneer quotes, scare quotes and the like). I just wonder if Clark wiggled two fingers on each hand when he said the word "stupid," or, if knowing he would be quoted, he helpfully wiggled just the index fingers of both hands, so that journalists would phrase the quotation correctly. Thanks for the funny mental pictures anyway! |
| Posted by: JP 2003-11-9 10:13:35 PM |
| #5 AC - I'm not sold on Clark, but I wouldn't sell him short on smarts. Being a Rhodes Scholar is one thing - finishing #1 in a class of 579 at West Point is another. I know a bit about the academics there, and no mediocre mind is going to finish at the pinnacle of a USMA class. Wisdom is another issue ...... and that is where we seem to have had a vacuum for W-A-A-A-Y too long. I haven't seen anything out of any of the talking horses that suggests to me that any of them are the answer to the current challenges. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2003-11-9 8:22:20 PM |
| #4 Since Clark himself is from the South and not the brightest bulb on the old magnolia, it's easy to see how he would take this position. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2003-11-9 5:32:38 PM |
| #3 actually it's out already - I should've hat-tipped to Drudge - my bad |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-11-9 1:21:55 PM |
| #2 "...-think the press will note this?" No, I'm sure they won't. I wouldn't have known about this if it wasn't for Rantburg. So I guess it's up to the bloggers to bring this stuff out, as usual. Thanks Frank. |
| Posted by: Uncle Joe 2003-11-9 12:48:03 PM |
| #1 I'll bet this suckers got a temper. I like to see it.... |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-11-9 12:43:24 PM |