strange things are afoot at the draftclark website

May 1, 2003 1:47 PM

Draft Clark, the website recently established to promote the idea of recruiting retired Gen. Wesley Clark as the Democratic nominee for vice president, "seems to have been taken down and replaced with the word 'chromium.'" [via PoliticalWire.]
posted by damn yankee (12 comments total)

Yeah? What's so odd about that?
posted by soyjoy at 2:10 PM on May 1, 2003

I don't know. I've been trying to figure out if there is any meaning to it, or if they just took the site down and threw up a random word in its place. I thought somebody might have an idea, given the vastness of the MeFi brain.
posted by damn yankee at 2:19 PM on May 1, 2003

That's hilarious. "Chromium." Heh! Don't know why it's so hilarious. It seems so simple and random.

Or does anyone think there's significance to "chromium"? Wesley Clark and chromium were both mentioned in this Mefi Thread. They're both mentioned here, as in There's chromium in them thar hills of Kosova.

I have no theories yet.
posted by Shane at 2:28 PM on May 1, 2003

[this is art]
posted by mcsweetie at 2:39 PM on May 1, 2003

Their host, Cornerhost, is having problems as discussed on the Cornerhost weblog. Chromium is one of the machines that Cornerhost serves pages off of; I assume that this willl resolve itself fairly quickly, since Cornerhost has a pretty good reputation.
posted by snarkout at 3:04 PM on May 1, 2003

*snarkout...kills the buzz...*
posted by Wulfgar! at 3:16 PM on May 1, 2003

Chromium aside, I think Wesley Clark is a remarkably good choice for candidacy.
posted by grabbingsand at 3:33 PM on May 1, 2003

Sorry. I mean, of course, that "chromium" is a reference to the blades wielded by the sinister ninjas hired by ketchup magante Teresa Heinz Kerry to disrupt the "Draft Clark" effort and preserve her husband's role as the only war hero running for the Democratic nomination. Their glinting blades have overrun the boys at draftclark.com; the blood-flecked corpses of Clark supporters and that one mysterious word are all that they have left behind.
posted by snarkout at 3:34 PM on May 1, 2003

Strange - the site's up. Guess Cornerhost fixed the problem.
posted by FormlessOne at 4:33 PM on May 1, 2003

Chromium aside, I think Wesley Clark is a remarkably good choice for candidacy.

Can I be so bold as to ask why? I'm only familiar with his experience in killing enemies and/or telling others to kill enemies. Or is that enough nowadays?
posted by PrinceValium at 5:15 PM on May 1, 2003

Strange - the site's up. Guess Cornerhost fixed the problem.

That's what the ketchup ninjas want you to think. Clever bastards.
posted by snarkout at 5:57 PM on May 1, 2003

Ventura in '04.

There. I said it. I'm glad I said it. Someone needed to say it, so I said it. Felt good to say it.
posted by RavinDave at 1:11 AM on May 2, 2003