Hardball w/ Clark on again, for those who missed it.

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1. General Clark

I am watching Hardball. Matthews is an idiot! He keeps interrupting the general. he won't let him finish answering a question before he asks another one. Matthews keeps wanting the general to criticize Bill Clinton. Matthews tried to get the general to say something about gay marriage. The general kept repeating that he was for equal rights under the law.
I like watching the general with these shrill do nothing pundits. He really cuts them down.

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2. watching it now, and he is taking excellent control of Matthews

I really really like General Clark. He is making Matthews look like the lower life-form that he is by continually bringing the interview back to important issues. Matthews is more on the gossipy level of "so what do you think of Senator Cohen now?" (during Clark's explanation of what happened when President Clinton asked him to take his retirement 3 months early)-- it just reminded me of my father's advice when I was a kid: people with small minds talk about other people, people with average minds talk about things, and people with great minds talk about ideas. Clark also rather forcefully makes Matthews shut up when he (Clark) is talking, until he finishes his point.

Clark has a level, eye-to-eye gaze that is reassuring and he masterfully projects a sense of personal responsibility. I am a Dean supporter; because of Clark's visionary and compassionate view of the world and well-developed sense of diplomacy I hope President Dean appoints him Secretary of State. I know many people believe Clark should be Secretary of Defense but I think his diplomatic skills are invaluable and would be best used by his being an international statesman and peacemaker.