[Pokey78]

Peggy ping!

[thesummerwind]

All of this was captured by Camille Paglia last summer, in an interview with Salon that at the time struck me as extreme and now seems prescient. Asked what she, as a pro-military Democrat, thinks of the retired general, she said: "What a phony! . . . Clark reminds me of Keir Dullea in '2001: A Space Odyssey'--a blank, vacant expression, detached and affectless."

Weasley - a phony for sure..............and soon everyone will know it, and then Wesley will end up in a rubber room within a decade. As the play plays on.

[paul51]

Clark will flame out just like dean. You just can't fool all the people all the time. In the end it has to be kerry by default. Even the dims will figure that out and then Pres Bush will spank him badly because kerry is a poser too.

[Graymatter]

Yes he's creepy, but this time Noonan didn't make the case.

And I like my generals a bit more sober than Grant.

[happydogdesign]

[BelieveNFreedom]

Now the wonderful Peggy needs to tune in to how bad Edwards is. Among the big media folks, I bet she'll be one of the first.

[JasonC]

It is all true, but everyone is so focused on presidential politics they miss the real story it reveals. Our military in the 1990s promoted this kind of guy to the head of Nato. Something diseased happened to the upper reaches of the American officer corps, that this character wasn't passed over at colonel until he retired. What was it, and why did it happen? And is any of it still going on?

[kimosabe31]

Democrats, for the good of the country: Stop Wesley Clark!

What gives Peggy Noonan the idea dumbocrats give a damn about the country??

[leadpenny]

. . . based on serious conversations the past few months with Republicans and also normal people: . . .

I love that line. Pretty good read, Peggy.
___________

Wesley:
Hillary's
Girlie Boy!

[Amelia]

There may be something to the idea that Democrats in general want to get rid of George W. Bush more than Republicans in general want to keep him.

One could certainly reach that conclusion from reading this site.

[OESY]

A mind is a terrible thing to Wes.

[Graymatter]

I've encountered many a Clark supporter, both in cyberspace and in surround.

You could practically infer the man by his glassy-eyed devotees. They spout what they have been told are his beliefs, cite his mesmerizing resume, and you know at once that they've found what they really want---an authority figure. And some adore merely the figure. Puppets worship puppeteers---and statues.

[petercooper]

Clark has stopped himself - he's done.

[wayoverontheright]

Gen. Clark gives off the vibrations of a man who has no real beliefs save one: Wes Clark should be president.

The democratic party mirrors the General's void of ideology, they are about power and power alone. Clinton was able to DUPE the voters into believing that he shared their ideology, but I don't see any of these candidates as possessed of that magnitude of talent to deceive, and deceive is what they must do.

[.cnI redruM]

Dean, Clark and Larouche. It's so easy to group those three in a similar subset.

[MrConfettiMan]

Noonan ping.

[Aquinasfan]

All of Noonan's criticisms are valid and important.

"What a phony! . . . Clark reminds me of Keir Dullea in '2001: A Space Odyssey'--a blank, vacant expression, detached and affectless."

Wow! Paglia may be a nut, but she got that one right.