Shouldn't a candidate for Chief Executive know how to actually run something?—from A Wes Clark Democrat.
The air in Clark land is all turgid and a-tingle with the clatter of fingernails driven by brain cells fraught with anticipation, tap, tap, tapping on computer desks everywhere. I hear it in the middle of the night with my blood beat: “Will he announce? When will he announce? What will he announce?”That last one is the sleep-killer.
Since the summer of 2003, the constant in our lives has been the future Clark presidency. February 2004 might not have happened. (You left in the rain without closing the door.... We stood in the way.) November 2004 might not have happened. Except, of course, it did and the world is very much the worse for it. We wonder just how the voters, even more, how the party, you know, the professionals, could not have seen what we saw, what we still see. America needs Wes Clark's strategic brilliance, diplomatic skill, executive experience, leadership strength, and unmatched dedication to national service.
But looking at the “rock star” treatment certain candidates receive in the collaborating media and how that is reflected in polls and then how those polls determine who has the money to run a campaign and gets more and more money to keep that campaign going, very much including this, the pre-campaign, deciding for the voters who is or is not “electable” by how much “buzz” a candidate is allotted—we do see ahead of time, this time, how it happens that the leader America needs is probably the last one it will get.
