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

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (2854)	2/9/2004 10:17:28 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3079

Ann, re: <<but learned when Bob Dole lost Repub primary fight few yrs back...that the best man does not always win.>> Amen.. And so it seems, we always learn to live with the second choice.. I just wonder, wonder what it would be like to live with the first choice.. Would that make us too fat and happy? I don't know.. And thus we would lose our edge.. Maybe this is the way it is supposed to be. I don't know.. c

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (2854)	2/10/2004 12:44:04 AM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3079

" the best man does not always win "....... Ain't that the truth Ann.... But I must concede, as much as it pains me ,that perception in many things ,especially politics , is more than half the battle.If it were otherwise , GWB would have been impeached some time ago now, and Dean would be racking up wins instead of second and third place spots. " I'm still holding in their for Dean and hope he's correct about winning Wisc, ".... Check this out <<GGGG>> *********************************************************** Dean launches all-out Wisconsin primary By Anita Weier February 9, 2004 It's up to Wisconsin to save America from a right-wing radical agenda that will accelerate in Washington, D.C., Howard Dean told a crowd of more than 400 at the Concourse Hotel here today. In the first of several appearances around the state today that launched his all-out, weeklong effort to save his presidential campaign by winning Wisconsin's Feb. 17 Democratic presidential primary, Dean warned that "special interests in Washington stop real change every time." "If we don't stand up strong to George W. Bush, America will certainly change - and not for the better," he said. "A shift of wealth away from the middle class to the rich and corporations. Crushing national debt. Policies that divide us by race and gender and sexual orientation. A dangerous foreign policy that isolates and weakens America. Losing jobs, losing health care, losing ground." If Bush - or a weak Democrat- is president in 2005, special interests will tighten their stranglehold on America, Dean said. "The way to beat George W. Bush, whose White House is a wholly owned subsidiary of special interests, is with a candidate from outside Washington who is independent and brings new people into the process," Dean said. Stressing that he stood up to Bush early against the war, against the No Child Left Behind Act, and against the new Medicare plan, Dean said that kind of integrity is needed. "In 2005, when the radical Republicans demand more tax giveaways for the special interests, and more phony health care schemes that help HMOs and drug companies instead of seniors, who will stand up for you? The person who stood up when it was right? Or when it was popular?" he said. "When they push efforts to slice away further at the Bill of Rights, threatening a woman's right to choose, rolling back civil rights, and giving government greater power to search our homes, read our mail, monitor our Internet use, who will stand up for you and for American values?" In response to a question about U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, Dean said that Ashcroft reminds him very much of a former Wisconsin senator, the communist-hunting Joseph McCarthy. Dean promised to take on the "big money lobbying at the heart of the corrupt Washington game." He said he would work to require that lobbyists register in real time, every day, not every six months, and that they report what they discussed with politicians. "The lobbyist disclosure system in this country is a joke," he said. He also promised to cap campaign donations at $250 per person. But in order to accomplish any of that, Dean said he needs to win in Wisconsin. "The power to make this country great again is in your hands," he told an enthusiastic crowd. "You have the power to choose the strongest candidate to beat George W. Bush." Wisconsin the home of Robert La Follette, William Proxmire and Russ Feingold - knows America needs real progressive change, Dean said. "But La Follette's whole legacy is at stake right now. And Wisconsin knows La Follette's legacy is worth fighting for. Wisconsin knows that what is on the line in this primary is the very heart and soul of the Democratic Party and the very heart and soul of this country."