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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (2665)	2/1/2004 12:40:32 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3079

washingtonpost.com On the campaign trail, Mr. Kerry says he wants to "free our government from the dominance of the lobbyists," yet his campaign war chest is filled with more lobbyist cash than the treasuries of his rivals. But the real issue has to do with substance, not biography. A campaign that descends to primitive business-bashing does not reflect well on any candidate. But as Mr. Kerry and his rivals inveigh against corporate special interests, what they leave out is significant too. The Democratic Party too often is captive to its own special interests, and in the past Mr. Kerry recognized this. He has taken on teachers unions with proposals to end tenure for public school teachers. Citing a "generational responsibility" to fix Social Security, he said in 1996 that Congress should consider means-testing benefits. But that Kerry is nowhere to be found on the campaign trail.