If ever there were an industry in need of a general, it's the ethanol industry. Already under siege from food companies blaming biofuels for rising grocery prices, ethanol companies are now seeing their profit margins crushed by falling prices for their product. Compounding the problem, many environmentalists -- who five minutes ago seemed to be in ethanol's corner -- have turned against the corn-based fuel.
It's hard to know, exactly, when the notion of "campaign surrogates" became so important.
Sen. John McCain's campaign on Monday called retired Gen. Wesley Clark's remarks that McCain lacks command experience "the lowest form of politics."
Democrat Barack Obama rejected a retired general's suggestion that Republican John McCain's military experience didn't necessarily qualify him to be president
Sen. Barack Obama defended his patriotism Monday, telling a crowd in Independence, Missouri, that his "deep and abiding love for this country" is the reason he is running for president.
Retired U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark, a supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, on Sunday questioned whether Sen. John McCain's military experience qualified him to be commander-in-chief.
You're in a tough negotiation. The guy across the table is unconcerned, backed up by his cronies, prepared to wait you out. There is no legal recourse. You need power, real power. Like this: "Mr. President, may I see you outside, alone, for just a moment." "Certainly," Serb President Slobodan Milosevic replies, with that smug self-assurance characteristic of his dictatorship. "Mr. President," I begin, looking at him eye to eye that day in 1998 and speaking in an even voice, "perhaps you don't understand, but the United Nations has directed that you pull out your excess forces from Kosovo now. And if you don't, NATO is going to tell me to bomb you, and I will bomb you good."
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's war crimes trial in The Hague, Netherlands, had just entered its fifth year when he was found dead Saturday in his cell.
Calling Saturday's constitutional referendum "a critical step forward in Iraq's march toward democracy," President Bush said the vote will "deal a severe blow to the terrorists" striking out at the struggling democratic system.
The good news for John Kerry is that he didn't pull an Al Gore.
If ever there were an industry in need of a general, it's the ethanol industry. Already under siege from food companies blaming biofuels for rising grocery prices, ethanol companies are now seeing their profit margins crushed by falling prices for their product. Compounding the problem, many environmentalists -- who five minutes ago seemed to be in ethanol's corner -- have turned against the corn-based fuel.
It's hard to know, exactly, when the notion of "campaign surrogates" became so important.
Sen. John McCain's campaign on Monday called retired Gen. Wesley Clark's remarks that McCain lacks command experience "the lowest form of politics."
Democrat Barack Obama rejected a retired general's suggestion that Republican John McCain's military experience didn't necessarily qualify him to be president
Sen. Barack Obama defended his patriotism Monday, telling a crowd in Independence, Missouri, that his "deep and abiding love for this country" is the reason he is running for president.
Retired U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark, a supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, on Sunday questioned whether Sen. John McCain's military experience qualified him to be commander-in-chief.
You're in a tough negotiation. The guy across the table is unconcerned, backed up by his cronies, prepared to wait you out. There is no legal recourse. You need power, real power. Like this: "Mr. President, may I see you outside, alone, for just a moment." "Certainly," Serb President Slobodan Milosevic replies, with that smug self-assurance characteristic of his dictatorship. "Mr. President," I begin, looking at him eye to eye that day in 1998 and speaking in an even voice, "perhaps you don't understand, but the United Nations has directed that you pull out your excess forces from Kosovo now. And if you don't, NATO is going to tell me to bomb you, and I will bomb you good."
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's war crimes trial in The Hague, Netherlands, had just entered its fifth year when he was found dead Saturday in his cell.
Calling Saturday's constitutional referendum "a critical step forward in Iraq's march toward democracy," President Bush said the vote will "deal a severe blow to the terrorists" striking out at the struggling democratic system.
The good news for John Kerry is that he didn't pull an Al Gore.
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a former Democratic presidential candidate, gave a prime time speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday. This is a transcript of his remarks.
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As you slept, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers landed in Baghdad for a quick meeting with senior military commanders that, while unannounced until shortly before they jumped on the plane, is aimed at quelling the public storm over prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.
John Kerry takes the high road this week with a series of speeches and town hall meetings on rising health care costs, starting today in Pennsylvania. His campaign, meanwhile, is going for the jugular on Iraq.
The abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American military guards is "a stain on our country's honor and reputation" but will not deter America's mission to bring democracy to Iraq, President Bush pledged Saturday.
Gerald W. McEntee, president of the 1.5 million member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union (AFSCME) is the kind of guy who could single-handedly give opportunism a bad name.
The Bush-Cheney campaign ratcheted up its criticism of Sen. John Kerry -- calling him "unprincipled" in one Internet ad -- as the Democratic front-runner picked up the endorsement of former rival Wesley Clark.
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Sen. John Kerry will pick up the endorsement of former Democratic rival Wesley Clark, a Democratic source told CNN, as Sen. John Edwards and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean tried to convince Wisconsin voters the Democratic presidential race isn't over.
Former presidential candidate Wesley Clark: a victorious NATO supreme commander, a self-described Washington outsider, West Point graduate, Rhodes scholar, soldier from Arkansas. So why didn't he catch on with voters in Democratic caucuses and primaries?
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John Kerry has one more thing in common with Michael Dukakis today, but Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie shouldn't get too excited. Kerry yesterday became the only non-Southern Democrat in 36 years, other than Dukakis, to beat a Southern candidate in the South, making it increasingly hard to see how anyone derails his nomination coronation.
Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark dropped out of the Democratic presidential race Wednesday after third-place finishes in two key Southern primaries.
Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark will end his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, aides said late Tuesday.
On another Democratic primary Tuesday, the presidential election could be among the factors weighing on U.S. stock markets amid signs that a Bush-Kerry race may be closer at hand.
CNN political analysts and contributors examine the potential impact of Sen. John Kerry's projected victories in Tennessee and Virginia, and what they might mean to the other presidential hopefuls.
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark and Sens. John Kerry and John Edwards slugged it out Monday in a final day of campaigning before primaries in Tennessee and Virginia, critical states in the Democratic presidential showdown.
John Kerry may have won Iowa, but Wesley Clark cleaned up on Wall Street. On Jan. 20, just a day after the caucuses, bankers tell FORTUNE, Clark made about $1.2 million in paper profit on his inves...
Sen. John Kerry was projected to win Maine's Democratic caucuses Sunday evening, the third straight weekend victory for the front-runner in the race for the party's presidential nomination.
Democratic front-runner Sen. John Kerry swept Saturday's caucuses with victories in Michigan and in Washington state.
Sen. John Kerry holds a dominant edge over his Democratic presidential rivals in a nationwide CNN/Time poll released Saturday night, but all the leading Democrats trail President Bush in hypothetical one-on-one matchups -- though results pitting Bush against Kerry or Sen. John Edwards fell within the poll's margin of error.
Critical to the race for the presidency is cash -- and so far, President Bush is winning that race easily, with his most likely Democratic opponent, Senator John Kerry, running a distant second.
A day ahead of Democratic caucuses in the union stronghold of Michigan, Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. John Kerry received the endorsement Friday of former rival Rep. Dick Gephardt, who was a favorite of organized labor before dropping out of the race last month.
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His hopes buoyed by apparent victory in Oklahoma, retired Gen. Wesley Clark unleashed his most heated attacks yet against Sens. John Kerry and John Edwards, suggesting his chief rivals are "conventional" politicians who "say one thing and then do another."
With more caucuses on the horizon, Sen. John Kerry came under increasing fire Thursday from Democratic rivals and the Republican Party, even as he picked up more endorsements in his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Savoring his victory in Tuesday's South Carolina primary, Sen. John Edwards said Wednesday that his support extends beyond the South and that he is the Democrat who can defeat President Bush in November.
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For the first time since Iowa, Howard Dean is not the post-election story. And after the results of yesterday's seven-state contest, he's not even the sidebar.
John Kerry and John Edwards, the two Democrats who gained the most from Tuesday's presidential sweepstakes, came under fire Wednesday from their Democratic rivals -- a reflection of their status as the leaders in the race for their party's nomination.
Wesley Clark claimed his first election victory Tuesday in Oklahoma's Democratic primary.
A presidential candidate makes few moves the world does not see. Cameras catch virtually every speech, every gesture, every triumph and every misstep, and hold them up under the bright light of public scrutiny.
Let's suppose John Edwards wins South Carolina today, as polls suggest he well might. Does the native-son-of-a-mill-worker draw any sort of bounce from this? More importantly, what does he do for an encore?
CNN analysts and contributors considered the impact of Sen. John Kerry's five victories Tuesday, Sen. John Edwards' win in South Carolina, retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark's showing in Oklahoma, and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's future in the race.
Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry picked up the endorsement of the New York attorney general famous for tackling Wall Street wrongdoing Monday even as rivals attacked his campaign contributions from Washington lobbyists.
Four days before South Carolina voters join electors in seven states to choose a presidential nominee, six of the Democratic candidates took to the Columbia's Township Auditorium stage one at a time to showcase their compassion.
Democratic presidential candidates crisscrossed the country Friday, pushing into the final weekend of campaigning before seven states hold nominating contests Tuesday.
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Howard Dean was supposed to be bouncing high by now.
Despite not getting enough votes Tuesday to break into double digits in the New Hampshire primary, Sen. Joe Lieberman claimed to share third place and vowed to move on to the next Democratic battlegrounds.
As the candidates eye the South Carolina primary, they are reinventing the way they court the African-American vote
Residents of Hanover, New Hampshire, are closely watching the primary process, whether or not they plan to vote. Most of the Democratic primary candidates have visited the college town -- home of Dartmouth College -- one or more times during the campaign. CNN.com's Liza Kaufman Hogan spoke with the residents in advance of the New Hampshire primary.
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Vowing to send President Bush "right back to that ranch in Texas," retired Gen. Wesley Clark told enthusiastic supporters Tuesday that he "ain't slowing down until the final buzzer sounds."
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Election nights should be a blast, like Christmas morning. Full of suspense, intrigue and, if we're lucky, an occasional throaty growl.
Howard Dean is thundering that he's going to abolish Bush's "irresponsible" tax cuts. Dick Gephardt is itching to start a trade war with somebody. Joe Lieberman sounds more like a Republican every ...
Former U.S. weapons inspector David Kay's comments that his team could find no evidence Iraq had stockpiled unconventional weapons before the March invasion drew mixed reactions from three Democratic presidential candidates Sunday.
Buoyed by a rise in the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll two days before the New Hampshire primary, Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday his campaign is gaining support, especially from independents, that will propel him to victory nationwide.
As New Hampshire voters prepare to cast ballots Tuesday in the nation's first presidential primary, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts is rejecting the label of Democratic Party front-runner, despite polls showing him with a strong lead in the Granite State.
Making use of their final weekend before Tuesday's primary, Democratic presidential campaigns blanketed New Hampshire on Saturday.
With Democratic hopefuls campaigning in the final weekend before Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, a tracking poll released Friday shows Sen. John Kerry pulling away from former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean in the Granite State.
Our apologies to the Granite State, its friendly faces and frigid climes. But we're already looking ahead to the relatively balmy breezes of South Carolina.
Despite being credited with breathing life into his presidential bid by pushing positive themes, Sen. John Edwards' campaign circulated a confidential briefing book earlier this month that instructed supporters on how to attack his Democratic rivals during the Iowa caucuses.
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts lead in the latest tracking polls in New Hampshire, but both are calling themselves underdogs as they retool their campaigns in a changed political landscape.
Having skipped the Iowa caucuses, Wesley Clark is urging supporters to intensify their efforts to win the New Hampshire primary, the first contest in which the retired general will compete.
Today was supposed to be Howard Dean's down day, his long-awaited chance to chill out and watch his son Paul's hockey game after a hard-fought victory in Iowa. But that was before his third-place finish Monday night. And then, of course, his third-rate speech.
Well, so much for "organization," the so-called mother's milk of caucus politics. Something called "momentum" had its say last night, powering the Johns (Sens. Kerry and Edwards) into New Hampshire.
Sure, you could decide whom to vote for by listening to the candidates speak and reading their position papers, but wouldn't it be easier if there were armies of political-science majors who did all the sorting and thinking for you?
Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination picked up an endorsement Sunday from former Sen. George McGovern, the Democratic nominee in 1972.
From the Wolf Blitzer Reports staff in Atlanta:
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Wesley Clark should get plenty of rest this weekend. And maybe take a good, long swim. Because starting Tuesday he'll need plenty of energy to outrun the multi-pronged army of critics pressing down on him as his crowds swell and his poll numbers rise in New Hampshire.
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 Much like the campaign she has run for almost a year, Carol Moseley Braun's decision to quit and back Howard Dean today in Iowa will have little impact on the Democratic nomination battle. Her moves have, however, done wonders for a political career that seemed destined for dishonor when she lost her Senate seat in 1998.
Four days before the Iowa caucuses, the first Democratic presidential contest appeared to tighten Thursday and the field of candidates shrank to eight.
Filmmaker and author Michael Moore, one of America's most outspoken liberals, has announced his choice for the Democratic presidential nomination: retired Gen. Wesley Clark.
Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean trained his rhetorical guns on New Hampshire primary rival Wesley Clark Wednesday, questioning Clark's credentials as a Democrat.
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This city just can't catch a break. Howard Dean, it seems, would rather cool his heels in Burlington today than show his face in Washington as local Democrats (a handful of them, at least) cast "votes" in their first-in-the-nation-non-binding-beauty-contest.
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean still leads retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a recent national poll, and two-thirds of Democrats say either man would be good for the party as the nominee.
Why Wes Clark is on the rise
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina was endorsed Sunday by Iowa's largest newspaper, the Des Moines Register.
Sen. John Kerry took a shot at rival Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean on Saturday during a stop at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds.
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From the Wolf Blitzer Reports staff in Atlanta:
Terry McAuliffe couldn't have written today's lede better himself: President Bush visits Palm Beach for the first time since '00 today, while Katherine Harris ponders an '04 Senate bid and Broward County grapples with yet another election debacle featuring hanging chads.
President Bush and his re-election team raised more than $130 million last year to finance his drive for a second term and starts the new year armed with a $99 million war chest, campaign manager Ken Mehlman said Tuesday.
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Less than two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean remains on top of the Democratic heap, with retired Gen. Wesley Clark picking up ground, according to a recent national poll.
Political insiders greeted the news that Bill Bradley would endorse Howard Dean today with a collective "whatever." And that may be very good news for Dean.
Democratic presidential contender Wesley Clark on Monday unveiled a sweeping tax plan that he said would benefit 31 million families without increasing the federal budget deficit.
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We took a much-needed break over the past two weeks. But as anyone with an e-mail inbox knows, the '04 Democrats did not.
Presidential hopeful Wesley Clark said Sunday he absolutely would not accept a nomination to run as vice president on the 2004 Democratic presidential ticket.
In early September the Republican leadership in Congress met with President Bush in the West Wing's stately Cabinet Room. They delivered bad news: Voters who once supported him overwhelmingly were ...
It was back around the time George W. Bush kept an aircraft carrier loitering in the Pacific so that he could make a top-gun landing and effectively declare the Iraq war over. Nothing--or so it see...
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