Go drop in on thewashingtonnote.com for the latest from Steve Clemons. Clark will be at the convention on its final day, Thursday, when Obama speaks. Apparently he will be given some role (though it seems unlikely it will involve speaking). This seems to be in response to Clemons and several other bloggers indicating their sense of displeasure, along with Clark contacting the Obama campaign to make it clear that he would continue to be a staunch supporter (however he was treated). In any case, a salve to the wound.

This Tuesday I got out of class at 9:30 am. I had nothing to do until 3:15 pm, when I was to be picked up and brought to the private reception being put on for General Clark in Seattle. He was in town for a book singing at Third Place Books later that night. I was nervous after class and got absolutely nothing done at all from the time I was released from class to the time I got dressed and ready to go – I didn’t even eat lunch. It was that bad.

Just after the Democrats stunning 2006 victory, which General Clark worked ceaselessly for, I urged him to announce himself as a candidate for President, before the media could annoint anyone. Unfortunately, and I can understand that he may have had his reasons, he chose not to do so. Now however, from my perspective, he has strayed from his support of progresive candidates to announce his support for a candidate who is so much a corporatist that she might as well be running as a republican.