Although he has not yet formally declared it, all signs indicate that Wesley Clark will run for president.
The former commander of NATO and teacher of economics made a campaign-style speech in Huntsville, Alabama Monday.
(Click on the link below to watch the video segment)
Some highlights:
"I believe we need to raise the minimum wage. We need to help small businesses in this country. We need to fix the access to the healthcare system. We’ve got to stop the unfunded mandates, that are running out, for the No Child Left Behind Act. We’ve got to raise and enhance teacher pay and morale and performance. We’ve got to get preschool education for every child in America."
"I think the union movement is the real secret weapon of the American economy. We just need to turn it loose"
In response to the question about how long it will take to undo the damage the Bush administration has done to American foreign policy, Clark says:
"I think it can be undone by a new administration and a new congress but mostly by the American people. Because this is about us and who we are as a nation. Who are the American people?...I think the American people are people who treat each other with respect, who believe in diversity, who, when they discover that things aren’t fair, they fix it. And I think that the American people understand that ‘those people over there’, no matter how they dress or what language they speak, they’re pretty much the same as us. They’ve got families and loved ones. They want to have hope in their future. They want to be treated with respect, and they haven’t been. And they’re pretty courageous people, and if you want to go to war against them they’ll fight back...so the best thing we can do is treat people with respect and talk to them. And I think if we do that, and if the American people understand that that’s the way we should conduct ourselves in foreign affairs, we’ll have no problem"
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