Meet Mr. Credibility: candidate or no, Wesley Clark upstages Bush on Iraq and national security.

THE DEMOCRATS, AS WE KNOW, HAVE MANY POLITICAL problems: their uncertainty, their inability to trade jabs with the Republicans, their likely minority status in Congress for some time to come. Checked out a map yet of which senators are up in 2004? Let's just say that if you're not sure you can take much more depressing news, don't. But oddly enough, they don't have that many policy problems Majorities in polls repeatedly are closer to the Democrats on abortion rights, environmental protection and a a tendency toward deficit hawkishness rather than tax cuts.

But there is one ...

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