Reply #19: Campaign experiance and administrative experiance are 2 different things

[RobertFrancisK]

True enough, Clark has never run a campaign before, which could hurt him a lot. However, he has worked with our allies in NATO, run the Pentagon budget (which is a HELL of a lot bigger than Vermont's) and other such administrative duties in the military. I think the fact that he had done these things proves he is even better prepared to run the national budget than anyone else in the race.
Clark will need a lot of on-the-job training during the campaign on how to run for office, but he will not need anymore than Dean, Kerry or Gephardt (the last two especially) on how to run the federal budget.