Damage control is futile
The Clark campaign is doomed. It hit me as I was reading this week's profile on Clark's military career in the New Yorker, it occurred to me that there's no way of refuting this he-said/she-said verbiage. The military, alas, like the CIA or FBI, has too much classified information, too many scruples about talking out, and it becomes an endless back-and-forth of who-to-believe-and-why.
G.H. Bush was head of the CIA but by the time he was elected president, he had also been VP. It would have been impractical for him to run based solely on his secret CIA experience. Clark's sole claim to legitimacy as a presidential candidate is his military experience. It won't wash. I realize that now.
That leaves Kerry (a non-starter), Edwards (whose campaign seems to be going nowhere) and Dean (who lacks foreign policy and national security experience and comes across as an angry, middle-aged liberal). So batten down the hatches. . .It's Dubya again in 2004--without or without Dark Princes Cheney and Wolfowitz of Arabia.
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