Wesley Heights

Washington Prowler

Retired General Wesley Clark joined Senate Democrats in Philadelphia over the weekend -- after raising money in New York Friday night for his PAC -- to counsel the largely xenophobic crew on international relations.

The retreat was to take up how the party could face down Republicans on international issues, including military actions and global security. On some points, according to sources present at the meetings, Clark was clear that his party has to move past the inward-looking philosophical undercurrents that drive the party's obstructionism in Congress.

"But it was the same old, same old," says an attendee. "He talked about using the United Nations, about using international law, about doing everything before limited military action. It was Clintonian and we don't need Clinton right now, at least not Bill Clinton."