I wrote last week about how Wes Clark almost committed the major misstep of starting his New Hampshire concession speech at the exact same time that big winner John Kerry started his victory speech (thus cheating himself out of live coverage by the cable news channels, which obviously featured Kerry).
Well, as the title of this entry implies, he repeated the error again this week. As I was watching John Kerry's (very effective) victory speech, a small inset box showed up on the left, and I watched as Wesley Clark took the stage and commenced his own victory speech-- silently. He was at least a minute into his speech before FoxNews switched away from Kerry's still-in-progress speech. And frankly, it was too bad they did, since Clark's speech was pretty much boring, empty rhetoric, delivered only somewhat competently. Clark is not going to win this nomination, and shouldn't. He has proven that he is not solid enough to survive the two-party campaign process.
P.S. -- Barring the rise of a serious third-party or independent candidate (and that is not out of the question at all, as I will discuss soon), I think John Kerry is likely to stomp George Bush in November. His speech tonight was extremely poised and presidential-- meanwhile, Bush was on the news in two different contexts, and in both he seemed almost confused. It was like he was saying three words, then saying "uh", and pausing to think, and then saying three more words. Which would have been fine if he was saying stuff that needed to be thought about. But he wasn't. He was saying standard boilerplate avoidisms-- one about the WMD intelligence investigation, and one about the UN. He had a big-time deer-in-the-headlights look to him. (It could be because he sees his unraveling presidency staring him in the face.)
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