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To: Rascal who wrote (8913)9/23/2003 1:45:00 PM
From: LindyBill   of 793731
 
DAVID FRUM'S DAIRY

CLARK'S WEEK
So Wesley Clark has made the cover of TIME magazine – congratulations. He’s polling well too – congratulations again. Yet I can’t help thinking that this opening week of his presidential campaign has not been a success, and not just because of that terrible photograph of him wearing a murderer’s cap and chuckling.

Clark’s problem is more fundamental: He talks too much. Colin Powell in 1996 and Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 kept their policy views quiet. They made themselves into screens onto which the party that nominated them could project its desires and hopes. Their best political trick was to present themselves as men above politics.

But its’s been not half a week and we already know more about Wesley Clark’s politics than we do about Colin Powell’s after the latter has spent almost a decade in civilian life. Clark has positioned himself as a liberal’s liberal; a general who could win Michael Moore’s vote; a man plunged in politics up to his Adam's apple.

Does this reflect the advice Clark is supposedly getting from Bill Clinton? If so, some second thoughts are in order about Clinton’s alleged political genius. On the other hand, Clinton never did do well for anyone other than himself. Why should Clark profit more from following Clinton than all those now-departed Democratic congressman, senators, and governors of 1994?

nationalreview.com
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