Gene Lyons: Gen. Clark meets the press

[CatWoman]

If Clark wins the nomination, we won’t be seeing any TV ads showing President Junior prancing across the USS Abraham Lincoln in his tailored fly-boy costume.

Clark clearly understands that trashing that impeccable image would be Job No. 1 for the GOP. He told an Esquire interviewer, "The ultimate consideration for anyone running for president against George Bush ‘ how much pain you can bear. ’"

His enemies will try to portray him as a real-life equivalent of Gen. Jack D. Ripper, the loony megalomaniac in "Dr. Strangelove." Even before Clark announced, The Washington Postran a profile with some extraordinarily venomous quotes, all anonymous, portraying him as temperamental, vain and manipulative. "I have watched him at close range for 35 years, in which I have looked at the allegation, and I found it totally unsupported," responded retired Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey. "That’s not to say he isn’t ambitious and quick. He is probably among the top five most talented I’ve met in my life. I think he is a national treasure who has a lot to offer the country."

Evaluating this stuff, it’s helpful to remember the sheer nastiness of Pentagon infighting. When it comes to office politics, soldiers are worse than professors.

http://moose-and-squirrel.com/GeneLyons/GeneLyons.html

[Cush]

1. well

I guess the ladies will be disappointed that they won't get to see the sock stuffed in the suit anymore :evilgrin:

But I guess we will see more of the "Its a CLinton Sabatoge" crap

[Bertrand]

2. Lyons is dead-on with his last sentence

"Sad to say, he needs to keep them at arm’s length and feed them nothing but sound bites."

[Larkspur]

3. Clark doesn't have to wait for the GOP to attack him.

I don't like him at all and I'm a Democrat.

I don't trust generals becoming presidents. Ike was a mouthpiece for the MIC, and I see that in Clark.

[Wwagsthedog]

4. McCaffrey?

"I have watched him at close range for 35 years, in which I have looked at the allegation, and I found it totally unsupported," responded retired Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey.

Isn't McCaffrey the former "csar" of the failed "war on drugs"? Was his GW1 behavior commendable? http://www.zpub.com/un/un-bm.html