Outside the Beltway

CLARK

James Joyner · Wednesday, October 15, 2003 · 2 comments

Steven Taylor has a rather interesting statement from a Wes Clark staffer:

[S]pokeswoman Kym Spell said Clark had no position on the $87 billion request. “He’s not in Congress,” she said. “He’s running for president.”

Which makes sense. What do presidents have to do with the military or U.S. foreign policy?

(I also find it slightly amusing that someone named Kym Spell can’t spell Kim.)

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James Joyner is Professor and Department Head of Security Studies at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College and a nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer and Desert Storm vet. Views expressed here are his own. Follow James on Twitter @DrJJoyner.

Pauly says:

Wednesday, 15 October 2003 at 16:17

Funny, Dean said the same thing! It’s a candidate phobia.
BTD Greg says:

Thursday, 16 October 2003 at 10:18

Of course, Democratic candidates can’t be bothered with minor issues like Iraqi reconstruction. They’re too busy figuring out how to insinuate what a lying liar Bush is.