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August 03, 2007
Wes Clark Wakes 'Em Up
Greetings from Day Two of Yearly Kos.
It's no secret we're big fans of retired General Wesley Clark. We pitched in on his (sadly) short-lived presidential campaign in 2004, and have continued to follow his worthy contributions to the national political debate.
Clark is waking folks up with a rousing keynote speech this morning. He's covered soup to nuts of American domestic and foreign policy issues, but, not surprisingly, he saved his most stirring commentary for the debacle known as the Iraq War. Favorite line of the morning:
"Mr President, stop hiding behind David Petraeus, and come out and defend your failed policy in the region!" Needless to say, this got a standing ovation. He's now taking Q&A (pretty detailed, sophisticated policy questions, we might add) from participants.
Some 1,500 folks are attending this year's convention -- apparently up 50% from last year's first go-round. Lots of laptops out in the ballroom, as folks blog away.
One interesting tidbit from the end of last night's main event: as housekeeping announcements were being made toward the end, the crowd was informed that while presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton will make an appearance at the conference, she won't participate in the "breakout" session scheduled with each of the candidates attending. This change in her schedule brought a huge chorus of boos from the audience, which was not particularly well disposed towards her to begin with. Ouch. More later.
Posted by houtopia at August 3, 2007 08:48 AM