Wesley Clark was top of his class at West Point, a Rhodes scholar, a decorated four-star general and the man who humbled Slobodan Milosevic when Clark was Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. But if he made any impression at all on many Americans, it happened after he retired and found stardom on cnn as one of the smoothest and most antiwar of the corps of generals turned commentators during the Iraq war.I dunno, maybe it's me, but this guy comes across to me as dull as dishwater. And many of his statements just before and during the war on CNN were clearly compromised by the fact -- which was no secret -- that he wanted to run for president.
I have to conclude that he was good at schmoozing his professors and commanders at the Point and in the service, because as far as I can see, there's no there, there.
I came out top of my class and struggle. Something about having a conscience and an aversion to screwing over the weak has seemed to cost me a lot of selfish opportunity. I'd not trade that for Rangel's place for all the world.