Re: Michael Moore

[Michael Hoover <HooverM@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> lnp3@xxxxxxxxx 02/11/04 02:23PM >>>
February 11, 2004
Farewell, Clark: "Dude, Where's My Candidate?"
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
Clark's mission was to stop the meteoric surge of
Howard Dean
Clark's function was to merely stop Dean, thus
preserving their power within the Democratic National Committee. Day
after day Clinton Mafiosi like McAuliffe, Carville and Begala worked
the
phones and the talk shows, deriding Dean and their onslaught was very
effective.
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clark would never have entered race had it not looked as if kerry was
going down the tubes last fall, while media probably exaggerated dean's
strength because his 'net' campaign made for good story, clark candidacy
was clearly intended to derail
something that looked a bit like a 'social movement' and might leave
tracks (even if candidate dean lost to bush in november), dem power
brokers would prefer losing with kerry to winning with dean...

clark's candidacy became increasingly irrelevant with onset of primary
and caucus 'ratifying' destruction of dean campaign, he stuck around at
least one extra week, however, in order to split
'southern' vote with edwards (who ought to be properly agitated)...
michael hoover