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

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (2729)	2/5/2004 12:34:14 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3079

Ann, Dean has almost conceded the quest for the Presidency today. It is encouraging to see that he is a realist like he was always portrayed himself to be. And I do agree with you that Bush will as always play with the fear psychosis of the people. But the Dems will not take it lying down. They will have to prove that Bush went to sleep for the 9 months he was in office. That provided the terrorists to swing into action and execute their plan of attack. I think 9 months is sufficient to execute a attack plan. The US military did so in 3 weeks in Iraq. So what is 9 months for seasoned terrorists? Then the Dems will move ahead to prove that when he did wake up after 9/11, he has not shown any success. Intel failure and no WMD, isolation in the world, his going to the UN now for help instead of before the attack etc. So kerry will come back and say that he does agree on reducing the terrorist threat with his vote on Iraq etc. What he does not agree on in the way Bush went about it. Instead Kerry would present a plan where the US would not have to pay the entire bill but have the world also pay for that since the world will be safer. Edwards and Clark will soon fade away, IMO. That leaves Kuchinich and Sharpton

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (2729)	2/5/2004 1:07:06 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 3079

The 'Real' Real Deal INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY ttp://www.investors.com/editorial/issues.asp?view=1 Media: Politics, they say, is a blood sport. So it isn't surprising when some pretty big lies get told. Like the one about President Bush being a deserter. What isn't surprising is that the charge came from Michael Moore, the writer/filmmaker whose relationship to the truth in the products he himself turns out is open to challenge. Moore made the charge at a New Hampshire rally in support of Gen. Wesley Clark. And Clark, failing one of the key tests to be president — honesty — didn't correct him, though he certainly knew the charge was wrong. Not that finding the truth was hard to do. In fact, a number of media outlets, hoping for a juicy anti-Bush story, leapt at Moore's charge. What they found was disappointing for the Bush bashers. As The Boston Globe noted, Bush was honorably discharged from the Air National Guard with a sterling reputation: "Those who trained and flew with Bush . . . said he was among the best pilots in the 111th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron. In the 22-month period between the end of his flight training and his move to Alabama, Bush logged numerous hours of duty, well above the minimum requirements for so-called 'weekend warriors.' " Bush ultimately served long enough to be granted an early discharge from the military so that he could attend the Harvard School of Business. That's it. End of story. Or so one might think. In recent weeks, this old canard has resurfaced. John Kerry, the Democratic front-runner and decorated Vietnam War veteran — a fact he lets anyone within earshot know — has hinted there are questions about Bush's service the media should look into. It's already been done. There's nothing there. If there are questions about anyone's service, it's Kerry's. We're not talking about his military record, for which he deserves respect and admiration. It's his other service — in the Senate. From the time he entered the Senate 19 years ago, Kerry often has tried to have it both ways. The man who calls himself "the real deal" on the campaign trail also portrays himself as a centrist. But his lifetime rating from Americans for Democratic Action, the liberal group that rates lawmakers on their voting patterns, is 93%. That, as GOP National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie recently pointed out, is five percentage points higher than Ted Kennedy's lifetime rating. Kerry likes to pound Bush for his ties to "powerful interests" and "big oil." In fact, the Center for Responsive Politics notes Kerry has raised twice as much from lobbyists as any Democratic rival. Kerry voted for the No Child Left Behind Act, the Patriot Act and the resolution supporting war in Iraq — all Bush initiatives. And why not? Those conservative bills were popular when proposed. And, though he's a liberal, Kerry went with the flow. But today, you'll have trouble hearing him defend, or even admit to, those votes on the stump. Just as you'd have trouble knowing he once supported taking Saddam out — but changed his mind as polls shifted. Kerry's record of flip-flops on key issues, his history of cozy ties to lobbyists and his dissembling about his 19-year record in the Senate all deserve closer scrutiny by the media. Let's find out the real deal — before the primaries are done.