[Lazamataz]

While all your points are salient, I think you missed the point of this thread....

It's as simple as this: Clinton et. al. want Dean to muff it so Clark can run as the nominee. Hillary will take the Veep slot and not need to surrender her Sentorial post, a'la Joe Lieberman.

Clinton advises, Dean messes up. Coincidence? I think not.

[Eaker]

I think that you are close ..... but it will be Hillary at the top of the ticket, with Clark as #2.

[Southack]

"While all your points are salient, I think you missed the point of this thread... Clinton advises, Dean messes up. Coincidence? I think not."

Yeah, but it's an article from *newsMAX*, so it's hardly worth commenting on directly. I don't deny that you are correct about what the article said, but I'm on a different track, pointing out the more important point that the Democrats are run by amateurs, have no new ideas, don't have the "charm" that Clinton had to unite all politically correct groups, and that the Democrats have such a shallow pool of talent that White-Guy Gore is claiming to be their "draw" for Black votes.

If Sam Rayburn were alive today he'd be kicking the crap out of these amateurs who have somehow climbed to the top of the Democratic Party. Lyndon Johnson would keelhaul Carville and Clinton. The powerful Democrats of old make today's Democratic Party misfits look like cartoon characters in comparison.