General's chicken(hawk)

AP ^ | December 29, 2003 | LIZ SIDOTI

[jgorris]

Clark Is First to Use Bill Clinton in Ad

By LIZ SIDOTI
Associated Press Writer

December 29, 2003, 6:20 PM EST

WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark includes a clip of Bill Clinton in a new television commercial, attempting to align himself with a popular former president and fellow Arkansan.

[jgorris]

For a general, he doesn't appear to be a very deep strategic thinker. I'm betting this latest idea will go over like a lead balloon.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Jay Carson, a Dean spokesman, said the ad "doesn't make up for a lifetime of voting Republican. We're looking forward to seeing the Nixon-Reagan-Bush-Rumsfeld-Cheney ad." Carson said Dean isn't concerned that voters will take the image of Clinton as an endorsement of Clark. "Voters in America are very smart," he said. "They're not going to read a couple seconds of footage in an ad as anything more than a couple seconds of footage in the ad."

Yes, and because of this, Howie doesn't have a chance in heck of winning the election.

[Zeppo]

Clark's and Clinton's early lives also are similar. Both were raised as Baptists by their mothers after their fathers died while they were young. Both earned Rhodes scholarships to study at Oxford University in the late 1960s.

Suddenly it all makes sense. Does anybody else see the similarity to the plot of the movie "The Boys from Brazil"? I've always believed that Clinton was "the Manchurian Candidate" (maybe I had the right idea but the wrong movie) - but now it seems that he was only one of many clones (Clark is now the second to have been revealed) whose life experiences have been guided by some unseen hand in an effort to turn them into - what? And, who and where are the others?

In "The Boys from Brazil", the goal was to recreate Hitler, and since Hitler's father died when Adolph was young, it was necessary for the clones' fathers to die as well.

BTW, I am only half joking - maybe there's really something here...

[Lion in Winter]

Maybe the men credited with fathering clark and clinton were not their fathers at all. Sort of like in the movie "Rosemary's Baby".

Yeah, I know...weird.

[Zeppo]

I think you're on to something...