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Wes Clark : even those from the South and stupid should be represented

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Posted by Frank G 2003-11-09 12:33:19 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'll bet this suckers got a temper. I like to see it....

Posted by Shipman 2003-11-9 12:43:24 PM|| 2003-11-9 12:43:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-11-9 12:48:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-11-9 1:21:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-11-9 5:32:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-11-9 8:22:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Did Clark put the ellipses around âstupidâ?

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|| 2003-11-9 10:13:35 PM|| Front Page Top

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