Why is Clark being rammed down our throats before his MIC stance is

[RichM]

made clear? Why are there no bullies among the fans of CMB, Gephardt, Edwards, DK, etc, while the Clark supporters - day after day - force 70% of all DU threads to be redundant, often vacuous Clark commercials? (One bozo a few minutes ago posted a Clark commericial, saying, "I know this is a dupe, but it has to be shouted to the world..." -- Well, if he knew it was a dupe, why did he force it on us again?)

No other candidate's supporters do this; why do the Clark supporters behave differently?

Shouldn't this quasi-Republican Pentagon-insider who voted for Nixon & Reagan, and says he "likes" Perle, Wolfie, Cheney, Rummy, & all the gang at PNAC, and commanded a war in which civilians were bombed -- why shouldn't he have to make perfectly clear what his positions are regarding the military-industrial complex, before he gets to dominate the whole DU discussion board?

He should have to answer questions like these, before even being taken seriously as a candidate:
- What does he think is the appropriate level of military spending? Cuts, or no cuts?
- What is his position on the "Missile Defense Shield?"
- What does he think of "full spectrum dominance" & the "US Security Strategy" enunciated last September?
- What does he think of the PNAC plan?
- What does he think today of the justification for the US position in the Vietnam war?
- What were his reasons for voting for Reagan & Nixon?
- What made him become a "Democrat?" When did this transformation take place?
- Does he solidly agree with Ted Kennedy's remarks of last week about the "fraud" of the Iraq War?
- What does he think of the famous Smedley Butler quote from the mid 1930's, about the relationship between the US military and corporate interests?

Before his answers to direct questions like these are fully explored, it is impossible to say with any confidence that Clark is NOT just a smarter "kinder & gentler" version of Bush. That is, he may well be protecting the same class interests that Bush protects -- simply doing so with a strategy that arouses less potentially-destabilizing hostility at home and abroad.