By The Prowler on 5.1.06 @ 12:08AM
Ex-Gen. Wes Clark tries to talk sense to Democrats, no easy task given his reliance on George Soros.
Retired General Wesley Clark joined Senate
Democrats in Philadelphia over the weekend -- after raising money
in New York Friday night for his PAC -- to counsel the largely
xenophobic crew on international relations.
The retreat was to take up how the party could face down
Republicans on international issues, including military actions and
global security. On some points, according to sources present at
the meetings, Clark was clear that his party has to move past the
inward-looking philosophical undercurrents that drive the party's
obstructionism in Congress.
"But it was the same old, same old," says an attendee. "He
talked about using the United Nations, about using international
law, about doing everything before limited military action. It was
Clintonian and we don't need Clinton right now, at least not
Bill Clinton."
Many inside the party view Clark's advice as dubious at best,
particularly given his performance in the 2004 election cycle, as
well as because of his close ties to billionaire George
Soros. Clark has bent over backwards to distance himself
from Soros, but that was hard to do on Saturday, particularly since
Soros was one of Clark's biggest financial backers in New York on
Friday.
"Soros is one of the biggest albatrosses we have around our
necks right now," says a Democrat fundraiser based in the Midwest.
"Republicans fundraise well off of his name, and he represents
everything that has gone wrong for the Democrats in the past two
election cycles. It would be best if he just sat in the background,
but he doesn't seem to feel that is necessary any longer. A lot of
us think it is."
topics:
Bill Clinton, Law, Military, United Nations
