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

To: Mephisto who wrote (2904)	2/13/2004 7:11:25 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3079

I think it matters more who Kerry's cabinet is composed of. If Kerry uses a lot of the Clinton era policies, which is what I suspect, then no matter what Kerry is about as a person the overall theme of his presidency will be something like the 90s. Thats the whole problem with Bush anyway, the nut brigade is his cabinet. Bush has a tremendous statesman at his side, Colin Powell, and he pushed him away in favor of Perle and company. I'm not sure but I suspect a moderate dem crew from Kerry. My senator Dianne Feinstein would become a key figure with a dem contolled senate (VERY possible imho), and she meets often with Robert Reich who is working at Berkeley for a year. (I never liked Reich when he was in office, but I much prefer him to Chao and I think his heart is in the right place anyway)

To: Mephisto who wrote (2904)	2/13/2004 8:32:16 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3079

Have you seen this one yet: Kerry sex scandal lurking? Internet report cites suspicions By WILLIAM BUNCH bunchw@phillynews.com Here we go again? The worlds of politics and the media were all atwitter yesterday over a report on the popular Internet site, the Drudge Report, that Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry - the Democratic presidential front-runner - may be brought down by a sex scandal. Six years ago, it was a similar item on the Drudge Report that brought the world's attention to the affair between then-President Bill Clinton and intern Monica Lewinsky - sparking the scandal that led to Clinton's impeachment. Late last night, Matt Drudge - the conservative gossipmeister who runs the site - said several leading TV networks and newspapers had been trying to confirm an alleged relationship between Kerry, who is married to ketchup heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry, and a young woman that started in spring 2001. An earlier item said the woman had worked for the Associated Press for a short time. "After being approached by a top news producer, the woman fled to Africa, where she remains, the Drudge Report can reveal," the Web site breathlessly reported. Drudge also suggested that the woman left the country at Kerry's behest. But there's one huge problem with the story, which raced through newsrooms across the country like a computer virus: Nobody has been able to confirm that it was true. "This rumor has been out there for months and months," Neil Oxman, the prominent Democratic consultant based in Philadelphia, said last night. He said there were various versions, including several that had Kerry dating a young woman well before the 2000 election, when Al Gore looked at Kerry as a potential running mate. Oxman said there's just no way to judge whether the story is really damaging to the Kerry campaign until any facts come out. Even stranger, the Drudge item said that Wesley Clark, the retired general and former candidate, spread the rumor by telling a group of stunned reporters that "Kerry will implode over an intern issue." But then it was reported last night that Clark today will endorse Kerry - the decorated Vietnam War candidate who has captured 13 of 15 Democratic primaries and caucuses. Indeed, other accounts last night said Clark was instead referring to Kerry's reportedly wild bachelor days between the breakup of his first marriage and his 1996 wedding to Teresa Heinz Kerry. Kerry reportedly dated actress Morgan Fairchild and other starlets. Numerous fingers for the uproar were pointed last night at Clark's top aide, Chris Lehane, who was Gore's campaign press secretary in 2000. Washington insider Craig Crawford of Congressional Quarterly said in a widely circulated e-mail that Lehane had been "shopping" the story to reporters for a long time. "The Kerry camp has long expected to deal with this, and have assured party leaders they can handle it," he said. If the story were true, Kerry would have a harder time handling his wife, the widow of Pennsylvania Sen. John Heinz, who was killed in a 1991 midair collision in Lower Merion. She told Elle magazine that she warned her first husband on the subject of adultery: "If you ever get something, I'll maim you. I won't kill you. I'll maim you." philly.com. Looks like Kerry's attacks on Dean and Clark may have backfired. I don't find this type of campaign palatable but since his entire campaign was based on attacks on everyone else from Bush to Dean, it is ironic.

To: Mephisto who wrote (2904)	2/14/2004 8:49:56 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3079

Hi Mephisto, I just got back from our local caucus. Although our man didn't win, it was still TREMENDOUSLY uplifting.. Kerry won 55% to 22%, with Edwards 12%.. Dennis Kucinich got 4% from a very energized group.. The place was packed with I estimate about 3,000 people.. Just HUGE compared to the past. Held in a large high school gym. The floor was packed as well as much of the bleachers.. Our Senator, Harry Reid, usually very low key, spoke with passion to get BUSH the hell out. All I heard was "Anybody but Bush" and "Electibility" So many potential Dean or even Kucinich voters went with Kerry. But we didn't waiver, we hung in for Dean. And I am moving on to the county convention... What was really heart warming to me was to see two neighbors, I know somewhat, but didn't know their politics, I would have guessed to be somewhat conservative.. And they were there!. And we also met new people from our general area, our precinct, with the same "Anybody but Bush" feelings... I would say, Bush is the "Great Uniter", alright, as he says.. He has UNITED tens of million of NEW people with the old Democrat core. PLENTY to get him the hell out of the White House in November.. c