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To: LindyBill who wrote (28940)	2/11/2004 3:58:37 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793964

The Clark Exit Howard Kurtz - WP Tuesday, February 10, 2004; 11:31 PM Well, the pundits were right. Wesley Clark is out. At least according to an AP report that hit the airwaves at 11:04 p.m. "'I almost finished second in Tennessee' is not a rallying cry," Jeff Greenfield declared. The insta-verdict: Good news for Edwards. He's now the sole southerner. To a far lesser extent than Howard Dean, Wes Clark was a media meteor who flamed out. When the retired general jumped into the race last fall, there was a huge boomlet over his four-star pedigree. He briefly rocketed to the top of the national polls (which are meaningless, but reporters love them). Clark raised a whole lot of money and attracted a whole lot of former Clinton and Gore aides. But he had never run for dogcatcher, and it showed. As soon as he announced, he contradicted himself on the Iraq war in an airplane chat with reporters, and he never really recovered from that. Clark made other media mistakes, overstating his position on abortion in a New Hampshire newspaper interview and snapping to Bob Dole on "Larry King Live" that Kerry was just a lieutenant while he, Clark, had been a general. But here's a point the press has largely overlooked. With John Kerry seemingly moribund, there was space in the race (at least theoretically) for a military man who would challenge George Bush on national security. Once Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran, surged, the space for Clark shrunk dramatically. He skipped Iowa, got buried in New Hampshire and never really recovered. The reaction at Fox News? I don't know. The network is sticking with an O'Reilly rerun. © 2004 washingtonpost.com