{"id":140,"date":"2003-09-18T06:16:35","date_gmt":"2003-09-18T10:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=140"},"modified":"2003-09-18T06:16:35","modified_gmt":"2003-09-18T10:16:35","slug":"clark-the-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Clark the Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>From my e-mail;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>POLITICS U.S. &#8211; As recently as two years ago, he was addressing Republican dinners in his home state of Arkansas amid speculation about a possible future Clark run for office &#8211; as a Republican. Speaking on May 11, 2001, as the keynote speaker to the Pulaski County Republican Party&#8217;s Lincoln Day Dinner, Clark said that American involvement abroad helps prevent war and spreads the ideals of the United States, according to an AP dispatch the following day. Two weeks later, a report in U.S. News and World Report said Arkansas Republican politicos were &#8220;pondering the future of Wesley Clark:&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Insiders say Clark, who is a consultant for Stephens Group in Little Rock, is preparing a political run as a Republican. Less clear: what office he&#8217;d campaign for. At a recent Republican fund-raiser, he heralded Ronald Reagan&#8217;s Cold War actions and George Bush&#8217;s foreign policy. He also talked glowingly of current President Bush&#8217;s national security team. Absent from the praise list &#8212; his former boss, ex-Commander in Chief Bill Clinton.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsus.com\/\">http:\/\/www.politicsus.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[To find out more about the Stephens Group, go to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prorev.com\"> our main page <\/a> and use our site search engine. It&#8217;s pretty interesting]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my e-mail; POLITICS U.S. &#8211; As recently as two years ago, he was addressing Republican dinners in his home state of Arkansas amid speculation about a possible future Clark run for office &#8211; as a Republican. Speaking on May &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=140\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}