He probably isn't going to be VP: he has a lot of pluses, and a national profile now, and I'd love him, but the media doesn't. He still a bit of newbie, and Kerry needs someone who is gaffe proof, but more importantly, "Goring" proof--in other words someone the media lurves. I am thinking Edwards (and really hoping not Gephardt).
Clark can't be Secy of Defense: against the law.
Holbrooke probably has Secy of State locked up.
I see National Security advisor as too managerial and insufficiently dynamic for him.
Homeland Security is too domestic.
So what's left? We're running out of plausible top cabinet jobs for a guy with Clark's background...that is, of course, if you assume that we have to stick with the cabinet positions we've got. But recall that Clark has spent a good deal of energy advocating a new cabinet position for coordinating international development efforts. And whereas I had assumed that that idea had just sort of faded away with the rest of his presidential platform, here he is still plugging it in his shiny new (and I'd say must-read) Washington Monthly article (last paragraph):
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0405.clark.html
What better to be its first chair/head than the guy who proposed it? Thoughts?