My take on Clark is that he is a creation of the press, much like John McCain was in 2000. The liberal press has decided that if Dean wins it will be bad for "the party", which is them. They see Bush cleaning his clock. The NYT has done a series of hit pieces on him and the WaPo has jumped on him too. Only the elite read these papers but it is the Democrtatic elite, the people with the really big money; Hollywood and Manhattan especially. Power is in numbers and we'll see what the numbers actually do pretty soon. On my end I am surprised that Dean is caving on some of his key pronouncements. Really surprised. I thought he had more balls than that.