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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (481730)	10/26/2003 3:15:41 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Thomas, Dean is beating Clinton and the Dems at their own game. Funny to watch. Steve

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (481730)	10/26/2003 3:48:57 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

It was a banner week for Democratic fratricide. With their main opponent, President Bush, away in Asia and Australia last week, prominent Democrats took over part of his duties by becoming their own worst enemies. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.), the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, said the Democratic presidential candidates -- such as fellow Sens. John F. Kerry (Mass.) and John Edwards (N.C.) -- who voted to authorize force in Iraq but now oppose the Iraq spending package lack "a coherent policy." Also last week, it was reported that former Clinton Cabinet secretary Andrew M. Cuomo, in an essay appearing in a new book, said his fellow partisans appear "bloodless, soulless and clueless" to voters and "fumbled" their response to terrorism. Not to be outdone -- and he seldom is -- Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) is publishing a book describing the current crop of Democratic presidential candidates as "streetwalkers in skimpy halters and hot pants plying their age-old trade for the fat wallets on K Street." And what say the nine candidates in hot pants? They were busy attacking each other. "The best my opponents can do is ask questions today that they should have asked before they supported the war," former Vermont governor Howard Dean declared in a new television ad about Iraq airing in New Hampshire. Kerry promptly scolded Dean for going negative but, on the same day, launched negative attacks of his own against Dean. Dean's ad was aimed at Kerry, Edwards, Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (Mo.) and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.). But Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (Ohio), a dark horse candidate, asked New Hampshire television stations to "cease and desist" from airing the ad because Kucinich did, in fact, oppose the Iraq war. The not quite 5-foot-7 Kucinich is often overlooked in the field. washingtonpost.com