I don't get it either. And what is stranger than Clark is the way the ultra libs idolize him. A man who never expressed a Democratic thought in his whole life until he saw a chance to run for president on the Dem ticket. A career military man and a rather heavy handed one at that. The Waco misadventure. Kosovo. Hard to fathom how they can be taken in by such an obvious fraud, yet the libs rave and drool over him.
Clark fought the good war as the ultra libs percieve it. First of all, they saw Kosovo as the Yugoslav version as the civil right movement, with Slobbo as Bull Connor. And Clark brought Bull Connor to heel by bombing from 15,000 feet without American casualities (well, the media says that happened, and who is a liberal to quibble with that).
So uber-liberals long for a general who can lead the good fight against Bull Connors everywhere, who doesn't care that the fight has no bearing on American security interests - no, they PREFER a fight without American security interests in play, because that somehow taints the conflict.
If he runs again and is doing well you will see Swift Boat Vets part Two, Rise of the retired Flag Officers. Those who know this buffoon hate him and if he becomes competitive they will torpedo his campaign.
That was a mindboggler--the libs freaking over him--until you think about the whole person and not just his military career. The libs thought he was Republican-proof because he was a general--that was all they needed to know, because they just wanted someone who was innoculated on that issue. And the perons, as opposed to the general, wanted the job, so he would probably be maleable on many issues.