By Peter Bakke, Editor

Politico's recent article, "Dem field missing 'Hillary Clinton in pants'", highlights the "hole on the right side of the Democratic primary" and addresses the 'electability' problem of the Democratic field, calling it too homogeneous - a mixture of the left and center, but lacking credentials from the right.

Remember General Wesley Clark? One wonders why the decorated General, a southern Democrat from Arkansas, no less, has been absent from the primary race. Democrats have suffered the slings and arrows of being called soft on defense and terrorism (is there a difference?). Why not enlist Clark, a four-star general, valedictorian of his class at West Point and a Rhodes Scholar? And, we might add, he is a man of the right by virtue of his military credentials.

There are some Vietnam veterans in the current crop of candidates, but no 4-star generals, Democratic or Republican. It might be worthwhile in this age of GWOT (the Global War on Terrorism) to have a smart, articulate West Pointer inject his ideas and expertise into the long war that is this presidential primary season.