Sometimes the pundits are right
They warned me about the Clark campaign--and it seems that they were right. There's a learning curve--and he's a novice. A baseball season is different from post-season play. The long season gives rookies a chance to slump, stumble, fumble and recover.
Before he was running, Clark was fabulous on Meet the Press. But the interviewer was throwing softballs then. It was also before that infamous interview--after Clark declared--with 4 heavy-hitting journalists during an airplane ride. Clark relaxed and philosophized--as he might have with military reporters when he was a general--and came across as an amateurish waffler.
He's still warm and impressive one-on-one--and stilted in press interviews. He has yet to find that middle ground--between spilling your guts and coming across guarded. Joe Biden has it exactly right--after years of practice--and he's not running.
So after this morning's MTP interview, I'll probably quit the clark campaign. Next question: Is there any way whatsoever to turn the Dean campaign into a mainstream one that showcases a party with some international-affairs savvy? Would Hart, Gore and Clark go to work for clark asap to convey a different image?
Dems rail against notions of bipartisanship--whether it's Bloomberg, Schwartzenegger or clark who's doing the talking--but it's that politically-induced carping and negative advertising that turns so many people off--and keeps them from going to the polls--or so we're told by poly sci professors.
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