Here’s what Wesley Clark stands for, according to Michael Moore:

“1. You oppose the Patriot Act and would fight the expansion of its powers.

2. You are firmly pro-choice.

3. You filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the University of Michigan’s affirmative action case.

4. You would get rid of the Bush tax “cut” and make the rich pay their fair share.

5. You respect the views of our allies and want to work with them and with the rest of the international community.

6. And you oppose war. You have said that war should always be the “last resort” and that it is military men such as yourself who are the most for peace because it is YOU and your soldiers who have to do the dying. You find something unsettling about a commander-in-chief who dons a flight suit and pretends to be Top Gun, a stunt that dishonored those who have died in that flight suit in the service of their country.“

If he says that he’d like to cut the Pentagon budget in half, and make Carol Mosley-Braun his vice president, I may have to rethink my firm position as a cynical progressive. After all, Dean might make a good cabinent member …