Salon.com | Black helicopters over 43rd Street!: "Sept. 23, 2003 | Conspiracy theories, like old habits, die hard. In Monday's New York Times, William Safire, formerly of the Nixon White House, advanced the theory that the Clintons are encouraging Gen. Wesley Clark in his bid for the presidency to extend their nefarious hold over the Democratic Party, keeping Howard Dean's pesky upstarts in check and ensuring that the party keeps a center-left agenda. As Safire sees it, Bill and Hillary are waiting for Bush to become vulnerable (become vulnerable?) so 'the politically inexperienced' Clark, having routed all the other Democratic candidates, can step aside to make way for Hillary. "