Scared of Clark

[Ivo Skoric]

Opinions of Democratic primary voters are so unformed that the mere 
mention of a person's title changes the dynamic. When voters were 
asked which candidate they would choose, without mention of titles, 
17 percent said Gen. Wesley K. Clark, 11 percent said Representative 
Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri and 10 percent said Senator Joseph I. 
Lieberman of Connecticut. The other candidates were all in single 
digits. - NYT 10/03/2003

Clark just entered the race - and he already tops all other 9 
Democratic candidates in the polls!? Something must be sick about 
that. Regardless of Michael Moore's standing ovation for Clark, 
shouldn't we be at least a bit scared of him?

Drudge-report dragged out some not-so-ancient skelethons from Clark's 
closet: he is a long-time Republican supporter, who just two years 
ago talked about Bush in terms North Koreans use when they refer to 
Kim Il Sung.

Ok, now he says he is disappointed with the way Bush is doing his 
job. And so are more than half of other Americans. So what? Why 
doesn't he run as Republican, then? Confront Bush in the primary.

No, he switches to the Democratic party, and torpedoes the other 
candidates. Hmmm, what, if any, guarantees can he give to us, that he 
is not just a stooge, planted by the military-industrial complex, to 
make sure that, whoever wins the next presidency, the same oligarchy 
still stays in power?

That quarter of 1% of population that contribute $200 or more to 
candidates for national political office. Those who have $500,000 or 
more annual income. Those who sit on the boards of large 
corporations, once they are done their tour of public offices, with 
possibility of getting back through the revolving doors. Those who 
cut services to the less fortunate than them, hiding behind the walls 
of policy. Those who constantly demand more security, and more 
incarceration, and ever stronger military. Those in whose name lesser 
countries are bombed into submission. Those for which Americans are 
now hated abroad.

How can we be sure Clark is not one of them? Or that he is not their 
poodle?

ivo