COULD GENERAL CLARK BE CONSIDERING 2008? SOUNDS LIKE IT

Received this piece yesterday, which will reportedly be in next Monday's edition of Time magazine:

An Early Eye On 2008
By VIVECA NOVAK
Monday, Feb. 07, 2005

The good news for John Kerry is that he didn't pull an Al Gore. Instead of moping around after the election, putting on weight and growing a beard, the 2004 Democratic nominee is back attacking Bush's health-care plan, skewering his nominee for Secretary of State during confirmation hearings, and booking a comeback interview on Meet the Press. The bad news for Kerry, if he wants to try again in '08, is that there's a boatful of other Democrats already testing the waters with the party's top fund raisers.

Among the earliest to start dialing for donors: Wesley Clark, who entered the '04 race just a few months before the first primary but quickly stumbled with a flip-flop on how he would have voted on Congress's Iraq-war resolution. Now he is telling potential supporters, according to one he called, that he "learned from his mistakes, he knows it takes more time and preparation than he put in--and that his wife is fully on board," which wasn't true the first go-round.

The only problem is that, reportedly, when General Clark's campaign was at it's height, he was given an offer by then front runner Dr. Howard Dean to be his running mate in order to get Clark out of the race, and hopefully solidify Dean's standing at the time...an offer that Clark refused. The two have not been on the best of terms since, so if Dr. Dean is elected as the new chairman of the Democratic Party, it may not bode well for the former four star general's ambitions for a 2008 presidential campaign.