meet him.  talk to him.  you'll quickly learn otherwise.

running for Congress, ... or has your head been up some of those GOPs in drag?

Jimmy Carter.

'nough said.

They're in the US Senate and House.  They go by names like Biden and Liebermann and Hillary.

But Clark is real.  He called this war the foolish mistake it was, from the beginning, when "The Democrats" were all gung-ho about it.

Actually, I know quite a few. And, I'm married to one (usaf col. ret.). Most of them are retired--which just goes to show you the power of the propagandizing that goes on within active-duty ranks. However, having said that, the ones I know who are Dems are horrified at this administration and disgusted with the foreign and domestic policies of this Republican Party. They are also deeply and profoundly pained at the destruction of the military they love and spent their lives serving. So, don't distrust Clark just because he is smarter than the average retired military officer. Instead, hear him and hope that he speaks to others within the military who also can see what's going on but who aren't allowed to speak openly about it.

a Democratic Officer (retired).

You would be surprised, but then, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Traditionally, military have been barred from being partial (wearing public dress at partisan events). And many people in the military generally stand by that. Of course the ones you hear from most are the ones who don't.

However, the top people they MUST respect are those appointees by the President, (and the President himself) and right now that means Rumsfeld and Condi, so it doesn't matter what party they are in, they won't dis their superiors, they would get in big trouble.

and jfk.

Although JFK died before I was born and I've never met jfk, I have met Wes Clark several times.  The man is a Democrat.  Period.

by parrotting that tired meme.  Please, educate yourself about General Clark before you go spouting off that drivel and making a fool of yourself again!

It's easy:  www.secruingamerica.com

ACTUALLY, I've spoken with a few veterans who state simply that having a military President, at THIS time, especially, would be a great mistake. Plus, many have also said they do NOT TRUST CLARK.
Feingold for President!!!

Lyndon Johnson WWII, John Kennedy WWII,  Jimmy Carter.  Where do you get this stuff?

http://www.vetpac.org/...

The men and women in the military, who, by the way, swear an oath to uphold the constitution and to protect the country from enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC, have been callously used by the Bush neocons over the last 3 years. Some of them are mad as hell and not going to take it any more. They are welcome, as far as I am concerned, to the Democratic party as our allies and I hope the ones willing to run for office succeed.
I myself had not really paid attention to politics and only became a Democrat when I started receiving the ugly neocon campaign literature of a Bush clone guy in Texas a few years ago.
Teddy Roosevelt, if he came back today would not believe what the Republican party has sunk to under Bush/Cheney and let's not forget pappy Bush and if you wish Reagan. All hacks. Teddy Roosevelt was an environmentalist and conservationist, I believe.

What's so hard to comprehend about Democrats who believe in strength in the world and progressive governance at home? That strand in our party has a fine lineage dating back at least to John F. Kennedy and dozens of other Democratic Reps, Senators, Governors and millions of rank-and-file voters who served our country against the Nazis and Japanese in the 1940s and responded to the threat of authoritarian Communism for the four decades following.

As the military serves to defend American values abroad and (regardless of what we think about specific instances of this) help promulgate them outside our borders, it makes sense that its members would stand closer to the party that best upholds those best values of the country. I would hope that most here consider Democrats to be that party.

I think the trend toward Republican support in the military and particular among the officer corps had to do with real and perceived Democratic disdain for the armed forces from the mid-1960s through the '90s. But after the abuses and misuses of the Bush administration on the military, and the prominence of veterans as our last two presidential nominees, and the emergence in this cycle of the Fighting Dems, we have a real chance to turn this back around and reconnect with our Kennedy-era support among service members and their families.

Let's not toss it away with lazy thinking or (worse) elitist dismissal of the soldiery.

How about General Hoar???  I can name hundreds.
I was stationed with Gen. Clark, he is a great man. Kind, Funny, smart...and all the traits of good Dems.

Your statements show your ignorance about Wesley Clark and his positions, as well as the military in general. How many officers have you met? Did you ever serve in the military; see combat?

While career military officer tend to be from the south and conservative Republicans, there are plenty of Democrats in the military.

Opposition to Bush and the Republicans is as strong as I have seen it since I was commissioned in 1960. Many of us, especially combat veterans, oppose Bush, Cheney,Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, et al, for their criminal mismanagement of the war on terrorism and believe that we should never have gone to war with Iraq in the first place.