Wes Clark Speech Thursday

I was flipping around and landed on C-Span, where Wes Clark was giving a speech at Johns Hopkins. At first, he was reading from prepared text, and that was making him fumble & stumble. At one point, however, he just abandonded the text altogether and spoke from his own mind. He stopped looking down at the paper. His speech - its content and its style - was awesome. He was speaking about "defense spending in the 21st century", but the part I heard was about how our people and our resources are being squandered and improperly used in Afghanistan (where Karzai is barely hanging on, and warlords run the show), and Iraq, which really has become a lawless nighmare. He then took questions from the audience, and one young man had on a Clark2004 t-shirt. It was quite touching. The questions were intelligent - as you'd expect at that school, and the answers were pointed & relevant. Wes Clark really is a brilliant man, and would have made a wonderful president. I truly hope that he stays active politically, because he really adds so much to the political discourse and to the Democratic Party. As of now, the speech doesn't appear to be on C-span's website.