[link|http://www.americanprowler.com/article.asp?art_id=2003_10_9_23_35_57|They're like the Borg, only cheesier.]

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More hard-core Clintonistas are joining the Wesley Clark campaign, after the son of former DNC chairman Don Fowler, Donnie Fowler, stepped down as campaign manager.

Fowler, who with the help of a few longtime Clark and Clinton loyalists in Arkansas got the "Draft Clark" operation up and running a few months ago, locked horns with Bill and Hillary loyalist Mark Fabiani, who has been working as the retired general's communications guru. Fowler also clashed with the campaign's chairman, Eli Segal, another old Clinton hand, and campaign advisers Ron Klain and Mickey Kantor, two mainstays of the Clinton-Gore years.

Now, those four will assume most of the duties Fowler undertook, and bring in former Clinton White House spokesman and Sen. John Kerry flack, Chris Lehane, who is expected to officially join the Clark team sometime in the next week.

Fowler had attempted to steer Clark away from too many public appearances with former Gov. Gray Davis in California, but was overruled. He also lost in fights to bring in longtime supporters from the "Draft Clark" organization into the campaign.

"This is now a total Clinton operation," says a Clark volunteer in Little Rock, Ark.

What had the appearance of a grassroots groundswell for an American military hero now has the whiff of a Washington operation. Within the next few days, the Clark campaign intends to open a D.C. office, from which some of the staff -- Kantor, Klain and Lehane -- will begin putting together a policy and research team.

I say:

Yeah, Clinton has a way of boosting the credibility and fortunes of every politician and cause he endorses, so it only makes sense he should run the show. Oh wait. No he doesn't.

Traditional American curse: may Bill Clinton campaign on your behalf.