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General Clark's Last Stand

Julian Sanchez | 2.18.2004 3:20 AM

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The final night of the Clark campaign:

Semi-chilled Bud Light was the drink of choice, as it was on the Clark campaign bus. The already paper-thin wall separating the young Clark media embeds and the young Clark staffers was finally torn down, and both sides joined the general in the kitchen. There, at the top of his lungs, the former Supreme Allied Commander sang Madonna's "Like a Prayer" and Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'." One ex-Clarkie quipped, "The scariest part was that he knew all the words."

No, I swear it's not from The Onion—it comes via Ryan Lizza's Campaign Journal at TNR.

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Julian Sanchez is a contributing editor at Reason.

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  1. JimInNoVA   22 years ago

    Are you sure Ryan Lizza dosn't write for The Onion? Because I've been laughing at his work for a long time...

  2. Jim Walsh   22 years ago

    We can truly be thankful for this turn of events, if only to be spared the chilling spectacle of Steve Perry at the Inagural Ball...

  3. Jon H   22 years ago

    "I think it'll be a long time before we see another Ike, who could walk through the shithole of politics and still come out clean."

    Ike never heard Journey.

  4. Douglas Fletcher   22 years ago

    I think the General Clark campaign will go down in history with other great campaigns by former generals, such as the senatorial campaign of William Westmoreland.

    I think it'll be a long time before we see another Ike, who could walk through the shithole of politics and still come out clean.

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