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Getting All (Four-)Starry-Eyed About Clark


Hey! It's pretty obvious that a lot of us are getting all starry-eyed about Clark--but we really can't let that happen just yet. Given what we know about him so far, he seems like a dream candidate to a lot of us, Democrat and Republican alike. But we simply don't know enough about him yet. Becoming passionately committed to a person or a cause is perfectly reasonable--AFTER you have a sufficient amount of evidence to judge that the person or cause is worthy of such commitment. If, however, you allow yourself to develop a strong emotional attachment BEFORE you have enough evidence to make such commitment rational, you're just setting yourself up to be a partisan hack (of the kind that Emerson is warning us about below [Mon Sep 15, 12:00:20 PM]). Once you become committed to a candidate, you are inclined to downplay evidence of his wrongdoing, exaggerate his virtues, and so forth.
But, anyway, listen up fellow budding Clarkophiles!

WE'VE REALLY GOT TO SUSPEND FINAL JUDGMENT ON THIS GUY UNTIL A LITTLE MORE EVIDENCE IS IN.
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I'm convinced enough that Clark is The Man that I made a small donation to the draft movement, but I'm trying remain objective and get some more evidence about the guy, especially the Pristina airport business. But there's no denying that he looks good so far.