Son of Clark Calls Politics Dirty Business, Faults Media

It's been a really disillusioning experience, you know."

The general's son blamed the news media for focusing too much on who is ahead and not on issues and said that if his father did not win in Oklahoma, he hoped he would drop out of the Democratic presidential race.

"His stance on the issues or his qualifications for the job haven't been talked about at all," Mr. Clark said of his father, who entered the Democratic race in September. "You've got to talk about what the man stands for and what he's done. Nobody does that."

Mr. Clark occasionally used obscenities to describe his views of how his father's campaign had been covered. "I think there was a lot of smearing and whispering going on by columnists and talking heads throughout," he said.

Mr. Clark said he did not believe the poor coverage had been limited to his father, however. "I think a lot of people have gotten bad coverage," he said. "I think Howard Dean's gotten unfair coverage. John Kerry's gotten unfair coverage. John Edwards has gotten unfair coverage. I mean, no one has been covered as to what they actually stand for and what they've done."

el - Can't argue with that.