One thing I’ve always found perplexing is Wesley Clark’s continued high-standing amongst the progressive blogosphere. For months he’s consistently either won or placed second in the Daily Kos and MyDD straw polls, for example. Yesterday our ace DC intern Cora Currier bumped into Clark in the Senate and much to her surprise, wooing Nation readers was on the General’s mind. I’m posting her dispatch below:

 

I was in Senator Carl Levin’s office yesterday talking to an aide when General Wesley Clark strode into the room. He was waiting for a meeting and sat down on the couch near us. Levin’s aide asked where I worked and when I replied, "The Nation," Clark jumped into the conversation. Introducing himself, he said: "Now, how are we going to get Nation readers to vote for someone like me?" I didn’t know what to say. "I’m a military man," he continued, "and the military scares liberals. They say, oh, no, he’s bombed people. People forget that as commander of NATO I was in charge of school children, and communities." He left soon after but gave me his card. "Nation," he said again, pointing to himself.

 

Let’s take our own highly unscientific straw poll. If Clark runs again, would you support him?