Wesley Clark: "I think we're at risk with our democracy...I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame. They are a threat to what this nation stands for, and we need to get him out of the White House. And we're going to do it."
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Wesley Clark says democracy is at risk in America
NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , DALLAS
Wednesday, Jan 14, 2004,Page 6
Democratic presidential hopeful Wesley Clark talks
with reporters as a group of school children look on
at the Museum of New Hampshire History on Monday in
Concord, New Hampshire.
PHOTO: AFP
General Wesley Clark unleashed his most blistering
attack yet on the Bush administration in the
president's home state Monday, vowing to win Texas in
November if he is the Democratic nominee.
"I think we're at risk with our democracy," Clark told
an audience of about 500 people at a fund-raiser at
the Westin Galleria hotel. "I think we're dealing with
the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest
administration in living memory. They even put Richard
Nixon to shame. They are a threat to what this nation
stands for, and we need to get him out of the White
House. And we're going to do it."
When a supporter yelled out, "Give it to him!" Clark
responded: "We're going to give it to him, and you're
going to have to take him back, right here in Texas.
Let him chop cedar." The reference was to one of
President George W. Bush's favorite leisure activities
on his ranch in Crawford, about 190km southwest of
Dallas.
Clark has been emboldened in recent days by a surge in
polls measuring voter preference in New Hampshire and
across the country. He has drawn growing crowds to
town hall meetings in New Hampshire, which holds the
nation's first primary on Jan. 27. He attracted groups
of more than 500 supporters in trips to North Dakota
and Wisconsin over the weekend. He is not competing in
the Iowa caucuses next Monday.
"I think we're dealing with the most closed,
imperialistic, nastiest administration in living
memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame."
General Wesley Clark, presidential candidate
Clark's attacks on the Bush administration have grown
stronger since articles began to be published over the
weekend about a new book in which Paul O'Neill, the
former Treasury secretary, is critical of the
president.
Clark said Sunday that he believed the book validated
his charges, made almost daily on the campaign trail,
that the Bush administration began planning for a war
against Iraq immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks, if not sooner.
To rousing cheers, Clark asked supporters here to help
him win the Democratic nomination by voting in the
state's March 2 primary. The campaign raised about
US$250,000 at the event, a campaign official said.
Before the fund-raiser, Clark received the endorsement
of Representative Martin Frost, a Democrat who is the
senior member of the Texas congressional delegation.
If the fight for the Democratic nomination is not
settled by March 2, as many Democrats think it will
be, it almost certainly will be decided on that day,
when California, New York, Ohio and Massachusetts also
hold their primaries.
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