Here's a link to another article in the Village Voice about Clark:

VV article

which discusses his support for the School of the Americas, his work as a lobbyist for a company seeking a War On Terror contract, and his apparent unwillingness to be pinned down on his feelings about the Patriot Act.   

There's another article in the same issue about Dean - the author makes the point that media is portraying Dean as harried, temperamental, and prone to flipflopping on major issues, but that when she actually saw and heard him herself, he displayed none of those characteristics.

Sometimes the labels the media comes up with for candidates aren't exactly accurate - but the subtle effect they can have on your thinking is almost scary. Painting Al Sharpton as a buffoon, a joke, or even the "comic relief" of the campaign is a case in point - lots of people aren't going to listen very closely to a candidate that the press doesn't take seriously. Jesse Jackson was thoroughly discredited by the media a long time ago, but I heard him on Democracy Now the other day and was impressed by how thoughtful and intelligent the man seemed.

Here's an idea - Dean for President, Carol Mosely Braun for VEEP.

Would anybody go for that?