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Unless, of course, there's a third scenario, which, given last week's lamentable performance, makes a strange kind of sense. General Clark is merely an unwitting "stalking horse", designed to weaken both Dean and Bush just enough to enable the Democrats' real white knight to jump in: waiting in the wings, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The problem with this scenario is that Clark only weakens Dean, not Bush. If Hitlery's pudgy little fingers are in this pie at all, it's because she wants to take out Dean, insure a Democratic loss in 2004 and leave the entire field open in 2008, where she'll be the ONLY frontrunner in either party.

Something I did on another thread:

Maybe it should be the story of an imaginary knight who did a favor for his imaginary king. The favor was to break one of the highest rules of the kingdom. The knight, now a favorite of the king, quickly rose through the ranks of knights to lead great armies. Alas, one day the king grew tired of his knight, and fired him. A couple of years went by. The knight feeling he had been dishonored, reminded the now deposed king of the favor he once did for him. If this favor were known it would be very hard for her highness, the ex-queen, to rise triumphantly to the throne someday. So the ex-king made a deal with his old minion and now the ex-kings court jesters are hard at work helping the knight rise to power because they had to.