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

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (518823)	1/3/2004 11:03:12 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

With former New Hampshire governor Jeanne Shaheen at his side serving chili at the Milford VFW hall, Kerry assured supporters that the New Year has brought new scrutiny to Dean's campaign and new energy to his. "I don't care what the polls say," he said after peeling off his navy blazer. "This campaign is on fire, and we're starting to move, and people are starting to listen." Kerry took several indirect swipes at Dean, telling supporters, "This exercise is not just to pick a nominee. It's not to have somebody who voices anger. It is to have somebody who can beat George Bush." Much of his speech, though, was devoted to attacking Bush's domestic and foreign policy records. "Every minute, two jobs are lost; every day $1 billion is added to the deficit of our nation," he said. "I'm not here today just to mark the day after New Year's. I'm here to mark with you the beginning of the end of the Bush presidency. If he wants national security to be the centerpiece of this campaign, I've got three words for him I know he understands: Bring it on!" In Bedford, Lieberman unveiled his policy on domestic violence, calling it a "serious crime" that would be "a priority of my presidency." Lieberman, a co-sponsor of the federal Violence Against Women Act, listened to stories from battered women and social workers who help support them, in a small gathering at a private home. As president, Lieberman said, he would criminalize the violation of civil court orders, establish 300 new shelters nationwide for battered women and their children, and introduce a program to train law enforcement officers to better handle domestic abuse cases. "We can't make right what happened to you," he said. "But we have to stop the next woman who's in the position you were in from having doors closed in their face." Edwards began the day in Nashua, where on Saturday he plans to make the case for his campaign in a speech on the steps of City Hall -- the same spot where John F. Kennedy announced his campaign in 1960 for the New Hampshire primary. "You hear lots of complaining and criticizing from one presidential candidate to the other, but this election is about something much bigger than that. . . . It's about an optimistic, positive vision of what can be done in America," Edwards said at his storefront headquarters, surrounded by college students waving "E-D-W-A-R-D-S" signs. Edwards embarked on a daylong trek to the northern tip of the state, stopping along the way at diners. As he squeezed between tables during the lunch crush at the Tilt'n Diner in Tilton, Donna Hann grabbed his hand. "I've been dying to meet you for forever," she said. Hann, a teacher, pressed him about inequities in teacher pay. The candidate told her that if elected, "I will fix it." Balz reported from New Hampshire. Staff writers Ceci Connolly, Jonathan Finer, Jim VandeHei and Vanessa Williams contributed to this report.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (518823)	1/3/2004 11:04:14 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (518823)	1/3/2004 11:17:39 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

There seemed to be signals last month when some of Mr. Clinton's former aides publicly questioned Dr. Dean's candidacy, saying the former governor of Vermont was too angry and seemed to reject Mr. Clinton's moving the Democratic Party to the political center. The extent of Mr. Clinton's concern about Dr. Dean is not clear, but some of his former aides said that Mr. Clinton would do what he could to help the eventual nominee against Mr. Bush. "It's more important to him to beat Bush than who beats him," said a former official in the Clinton White House, who noted that the personal strains between the Bush family and Mr. Clinton run deep. "He likes Dean fine," this person said. "The only issue is whether he is the right guy to beat Bush." Dr. Dean stirred his party's ire last month when he seemed to suggest that the Clinton era was one vast accommodation with Republicans. Rivals and party moderates swooped down on Dr. Dean, denouncing what they said was a cheap shot at the first Democrat who had been re-elected since Franklin D. Roosevelt and who had presided over the longest economic expansion in American history. Dr. Dean said in an interview that his rivals had twisted his remarks. "The other guys were so desperate, they just made that up out of whole cloth," he said. "There is no distance between me and Bill Clinton." But Dr. Dean said Democrats had to distinguish themselves from Mr. Bush. "Centrism was fine, but you can't keep moving right," he said. Some thought Dr. Dean had learned a lesson. "This was a fight that Howard Dean doesn't need and doesn't want," said William A. Galston, who was Mr. Clinton's deputy assistant for domestic policy and is now a professor of public policy at the University of Maryland who supports Mr. Lieberman for president. "It's one thing to take on the Congressional Democrats and to appeal to the perception among Democratic activists that their opposition to Bush was too tepid," Mr. Galston said. "Bill Clinton never persuaded the activist wing of the Democratic Party that his was the way to go. But it's a very different thing to take on a successful, two-term Democratic president." And yet, after calling Mr. Clinton to clear the air, Dr. Dean came back a few days later and criticized Terry McAuliffe, Mr. Clinton's close friend, longtime fund-raiser and hand-picked chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He suggested that Mr. McAuliffe was too weak to have prevented the Democratic contest from becoming vituperative and compared him unfavorably with a previous chairman, Ron Brown. Dr. Dean, who subsequently called Mr. McAuliffe to clear the air, said, "I made those remarks mostly out of frustration, and I shouldn't have compared him to Ron Brown." He added, "I think Terry's trying to be helpful." Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts used Dr. Dean's attack on Mr. McAuliffe as an opportunity to burnish his own Clinton bona fides, though he and Mr. Clinton were never particularly close. Senator Kerry cited Mr. Clinton's warning to the candidates that they had to get together after the primaries, and added: "It's time Howard Dean realized this campaign isn't about him, it's about our country. It's time he rereads that page from the Clinton lesson book." nytimes.com