Rangel to endorse Clark on Thursday
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Wesley Clark is scheduled to be endorsed Thursday by New York Rep. Charles Rangel in Harlem, following a Wednesday-night fund-raiser that produced more than $1 million for the retired general's effort in the bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Clark's campaign predicted that year-end fund-raising reports will show him pocketing more than $10 million in the final quarter of 2003.
"When it comes to national security, well, he's all bully and no pulpit," Clark said of Bush. "He said he was gonna have a humble foreign policy, but he's alienated with his arrogance nearly every one of our partners and allies."
Clark, wounded in Vietnam, criticized Bush's two trips to the Iraq war zone, calling his May landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln to declare an end to major hostilities an attempt "to cover himself with the reflected glory of the men and women who actually have risked their lives in combat."
Clark contrasted Bush's trip to serve Thanksgiving dinner to troops in Baghdad with his policy of not attending funerals for any casualties of the war.
"This is a guy who will fly halfway around the world for a photo opportunity, but he won't (go) halfway across town to honor American servicemen being buried in Arlington National Cemetery," Clark said.
The fund-raiser unveiled a new 17-minute biographical film, "American Son," produced by Linda Bloodworth Thomason, who produced a memorable biopic for Bill Clinton that introduced him to the Democratic National Convention in 1992.
posted by Blicero : 12/11/2003 04:18:00 PM
