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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (6415)	11/11/2003 6:39:33 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10965

CNN's Bill Schneider pointed out that unlike past years, in 2004, military experience could be the most important attribute of a candidate. They ran clips of Kerry and Clark looking very strong, then Bush on the aircraft carrier posing like a phony baloney.

To: Mephisto who wrote (6415)	11/11/2003 7:15:14 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10965

Mephisto, Comparing Dean's list of action points for veterans and comparing it to George Bush's shabby treatment of the vets ought to make it perfectly plain and obvious who vets should support in 2004. Bush needs the boot!

To: Mephisto who wrote (6415)	11/13/2003 12:50:21 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10965

THE DEAN JUGGERNAUT: The Labor Wins "It sends a very strong signal to the establishment in Washington," Dean said yesterday. "This says that two people who know me well and who know inside Washington well think we're the most likely person to beat George Bush." washingtonpost.com Howard Dean's Unlikely Road To a Major Boost From Labor AFSCME and SEIU Set to Announce Joint Endorsement By Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 12, 2003; Page A08 When Andrew L. Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), arrived at the Washington condominium of Gerald W. McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), on the morning of Nov. 3, he had no idea they were about to transform the battle for the Democratic nomination. McEntee, hobbled by a chipped ankle, had put out a spread of lox and bagels for Stern and the SEIU's international secretary-treasurer, Anna Burger. McEntee knew the SEIU was preparing to endorse former Vermont governor Howard Dean for president. What startled Stern was McEntee's revelation that his union was also ready to go for Dean and that he wanted the two unions to do it together. It was a radical idea, one that would put the AFL-CIO's two largest -- and among the most politically potent -- unions behind Dean's candidacy, a move Stern later described as McEntee's "big-bang theory" of how the SEIU and AFSCME together could vault Dean above the rest of the Democratic pack in a way that each acting alone might not. This afternoon at a Washington hotel, McEntee, Stern and Dean are set to formally consummate the deal that was brokered over that Monday morning. For Dean, the endorsements show that, even as he is building support at the grass roots, he is also playing a skillful inside game with some of the Democratic Party's most important power brokers. From the beginning, Dean believed that the SEIU and AFSCME, with their own grass-roots strength and highly diverse memberships, would provide the two most important endorsements he could get, and he worked methodically, from outside and inside, to win their support. "It sends a very strong signal to the establishment in Washington," Dean said yesterday. "This says that two people who know me well and who know inside Washington well think we're the most likely person to beat George Bush." Continues.........