Odd Couple Alert!

(Via Croooow Blog) Wesley & Me: Ever seen Bowling for Columbine, General?

Who's the political odd couple of the campaign season: Judy and Howie? John and Teresa?

Nope, it's Stan and Ollie.

Try Wesley Clark and Michael Moore. The union between the Silver Star winner and the self-described peacenik was consummated last week on the stump in New Hampshire.

I won't go there. But there's something more than a tad odd about it:

Moore hasn't always been so taken with Clark, at least if his Oscar-winning film Bowling for Columbine is to be taken at face value. Indeed, the documentary repeatedly slams the shining moment in Clark's career: stopping Serb aggression in Kosovo, the highlight of his tenure as NATO supreme allied commander. In fact, Moore suggests that the bombing tactics employed by NATO—and thus Clark—were in part to blame for the massacre at Columbine.

Well that certainly casts a pall on the party!

So has Clark actually watched Bowling for Columbine? It's hard to say. Clark staffer Jamal Simmons says that Clark "is generally a fan of Michael Moore" but mostly his earlier works.
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Could the campaign ask the general if he saw the movie? Nope. Too busy, says Simmons, pointing out that Clark doesn't "pre-screen the views" of all who support him.

Jamal could have saved some oxygen by just saying that Weasley is a smarmy panderer who will do anything to get elected.