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The Clinton-Clark Ticket — or is it Clark-Clinton?
Saturday June 21st 2003, 11:57 pm
Filed under: popular demand

I should have seen it coming — the top two undeclared candidates quietly joining forces.  It was staring straight out at me from Clark’s WaveCrest bio:



Gen. Clark is Chairman and CEO of Wesley K. Clark & Associates, a business services and development firm based in Little Rock, Ark.


Anyway, Clark was at Hillary’s book-signing two nights ago, got a book signed, and set up a rival greeting line.  Bill Kristol knew the score almost a year ago.


But what if they put Clark at the top of the ticket, with Hillary as VP?  This may be the more prudent option.  After all, what self-respecting Republican would vote Hillary for President?  Here’s the updated rundown on Clark.

The Clinton-Clark Ticket — or is it Clark-Clinton? …




I don’t think I realized how close the Clintons are to the DNC right now; looking back to the months following the 2000 elections, I remember a lot of sidenotes about their associates taking up high posts in the machinery, but this was before Hillary became Senator and a lot of other changes took place… I imagined somehow they had moved their focus to NY.

Comment by sj 06.22.03 @ 3:53 pm