perfidy

General Wesley Clark is going to run for President. He will announce his candidacy tomorrow, but first I'd like to point out some problems that he might face:

• His name is Wesley. Remember ST:TNG.
• He's from Arkansas. We haven't had a lot of luck with presidents from that state. Though to be fair, this argument would have me voting for Dean.
• Most of his advisors are ex-Clinton staff, a group well known for their probity and ethics. On the other hand, they are effective.
• He is a war hero from where, again? Oh yeah, that war that started in Sarajevo. No not that one, the little one that came eighty years later. We bombed some stuff. Like the Chinese embassy.

I think it might be a little too late for him to have entered and still win - though it frightens me that I say this over a year before the actual election. The other monkeys have had time to build organizations, raise money, and get, in some cases, as much as ten percent of the population aware of their existence. Clark has a long way to go.

That said, many Democrats will feel that he is the perfect complement for their favorite candidate, and soon we will see Dean/Clark, Gephardt/Clark, Kerry/Clark and Kucinich/Clark bumperstickers. He is almost a shoe-in for the VP. Though Clark should remember what one former VP had to say about the office, "The Vice Presidency ain't worth a bucket of warm spit."