A couple of Guardian articles on Clark

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Clark aims for the Wes Wing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1044318,00.html

Amusing quote here:
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He is untested, too, in the cut-and-thrust personal attacks of American politics; re ports that he was known for his abrasiveness in the military may indicate that he will have to adjust his persona to win the media battle.

However, General Barry McCaffrey told the Washington Post: "This is no insult to army culture ... but he was way too bright, way too articulate, way too good looking and perceived to be way too wired to fit in with our culture."
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Democrats hope for new Eisenhower
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1044333,00.html
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Gen Clark, 58, is famed among his friends as an impressionist: he can do a pitch-perfect President Bush at dinner parties. But now he intends to mimic, in deed as well as word, historical figures as towering as Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S Grant, and Dwight D Eisenhower - generals who made it to the White House with no political experience.

To some voters fearful of terrorism and sceptical about over-extending the US military presence abroad the late entry of Nato's former supreme commander may be welcome medicine.
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But don't mistake me for an objective source. Read the full articles! ;)

[Mairead]

1. See also the article I pointed to in 'Generals who became President'

That author subheads: 'Clark-no Eisenhower, he' and goes on to explain that Ike and Clark were completely different in the behaviors their respective stints as general officers required of them.

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2. i kick myself

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