The Command Post - 2004 US Presidential Election

November 15, 2003

Clark | New Yorker On Clark

Once again I haunt this page ... thanks to Michael for doing such a great job of holding down the fort. Peter Boyer has an interesting piece about Wesley Clark in the New Yorker ... including a rich review of Clark's military carreer. One of the more interesting passages:

Soon after Clark entered the race, though, another Clinton-era general, Tommy Franks, who retired this summer after directing the capture of Baghdad, was asked in a private setting whether he believed that Clark would make a good President. "Absolutely not," Franks replied. Retired General Hugh Shelton was asked the same question after giving a talk at a college in California. Shelton, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was Clark's boss in 1999 when Clark was unceremoniously told that he was being removed from his position as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. "I've known Wes for a long time," Shelton said. "I will tell you the reason he came out of Europe early had to do with integrity and character issues, things that are very near and dear to my heart. . . . Wes won't get my vote." Shelton has refused to explain how he came to his conclusion.

Clark indicated that he was puzzled by such comments. "I've known Hugh Shelton for years," he said, with a tight smile. "I always liked him." The comments of Franks, Shelton, and others in the Clinton-era military and defense establishment suggest a paradox in Wesley Clark's candidacy for President: his military career, the justification for his candidacy, may also be a liability.

Read it all here.

Posted by Alan at November 15, 2003 12:19 AM | TrackBack

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would have to be a LOT better that 2 dumb shrubs
and an actor. No Wonder the debt/defict is
climing again. What can you expect from guys who
Can’t add ??? Ca has an actor now with muscles
for brains. Thinks he can CUT taxes and raise
revenue. LOL..these guys are dumber than dumb..
Say they want a small govt and make it Bigger
than ever but then what can one expect. They get
small and large mixed up. Must have someone buy
their clothes and dress them. Thank god they
aren’t poor or nothing would fit.

Posted by: VF at November 16, 2003 04:06 PM

You’re a moron. Reagan cut taxes and revenue skyrocketed. Explain that, feeble brain. Do you realy think that you can increase revenue by choking the economy? Let the economy grow and revenue will increase with it. Tax the fuck out of it and you get what you have in CA right now.

Posted by: McGurk at November 17, 2003 09:12 PM

No bush he will cause a bigger defict

http://csf.colorado.edu/roper/money/notes/debt-and-deficits.html

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Okay, I just told you what Apple wants you to look out for with window positions, but in the real world, not everyone uses the hiding feature of the Dock, and it is unrealistic to be able to predict where each user will place their Dock at any given day or how large they will have it. However, you can build a feature into your application that allows spacing for the Finder. You can give users the option of where to position their windows and what area of the screen not to cross. I know that BBEdit provides me with this feature, and I wish more developers gave me more control over my windows.

Posted by: Agnes at January 23, 2004 10:49 PM

For example, if you see an AIM window peeking out from behind your browser and you click on it, that window will come to the front, but the main application window will not. The Mail.app/Activity Viewer is another example. The Aqua system of layers works well in many instances, but not in all. Thank goodness that the Dock is always there to come to the rescue. I know that clicking on an application icon in the Dock will always result in not only the application coming to the front, but also any non-minimized windows associated with it. And if the application is active but no windows are open, clicking on the Dock icon should create a new window in that application.

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Dock Animation. Sometimes animating icons in the dock can be useful in communicating the status of the system or application.

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The simple fact is that, when all other factors are equal, where will consumers spend their money? I believe that in the long run, the best looking, easiest-to-use applications will also be the most successful. I think that’s why Apple encourages developers to write programs that are 100 percent Aqua-compliant.

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Adhere to System Appearance. Does your application use all the sweetly colored buttons, delightfully shaded windows, and all the other “bells and whistles?”

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