How could anyone look at a Presidential field for the Democratic Party which includes Kucinich and potentially Sharpton and say, "There just isn't enough insanity here yet!"
Enter Wes Clark, apparently. According to Chris Bowers at MyDD, all signs point to another Clark campaign for the nomination - he is even being included as a "candidate" at the DNC winter meeting where all the other "candidates" appearing have already declared. Read it all at the preceding link.
Hat tip to Jim Geraghty of The Hillary Spot at NRO for pointing to this story. Geraghty recalls getting the assignment for a Clark profile piece in 2004, but Clark was out of the race before it could be published. A paragraph:
Interviews with a wide variety of current and retired military officials reveal that Clark was disliked by only three groups: Those whom ranked above him in the chain of command whom he ignored, his peers at the same rank whom he lied to, and those serving beneath him whom he micromanaged. Other than that, everyone liked him.
As we have previously noted, Clark was fired as NATO Supreme Commander only three weeks before his scheduled retirement, an extraordinary step. At his Pentagon retirement party, neither the President, the Secretary of Defense, or the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff put in an appearance even though all were in DC, and the latter two at the Pentagon, at the time.
That's not a sign of a guy who commands respect.
Clark could bring something to the race, though: there isn't a candidate yet appealing to the anti-Israel constituency. I see a lot of CAIR donations in Wes' future - presuming his campaign lasts long enough to deposit them.
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Ugh. Please spare us. Wes... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Lorie Byrd | February 1, 2007 11:42 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Ugh. Please spare us. Wes Clark is the most insufferable egomaniac imaginable.
1. Posted by Lorie Byrd | February 1, 2007 11:42 PM |
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Posted on February 1, 2007 23:42
2. Posted by harris | February 2, 2007 10:44 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
ahhh, but Fox likes him. Why they ever hired him I'll never understand, especially since he was an unannounced candidate (in his own mind)as well as an egotistical fool. Almost made me stop watching it. I turn it off whenever he comes on.
Someone at Fox had rocks in his head that day.
2. Posted by harris | February 2, 2007 10:44 AM |
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Posted on February 2, 2007 10:44
3. Posted by Jim Addison | February 2, 2007 2:42 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I think it was part of the whole "fair and balanced" idea. Don't anti-semitic reality-challenged leftist morons deserve to have their view represented, too?
3. Posted by Jim Addison | February 2, 2007 2:42 PM |
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Posted on February 2, 2007 14:42