2004 Presidential Election
Update: Here's the coverage of yesterday's DNC debate from NHPrimary.com.
Here's an AP [September 26, 2003, "Candidates Target Dean During Debate"] story via the Rocky Mountain News about yesterday's DNC debate. From the article, "Their attacks on his stance on taxes, health care and trade were not new, and Dean was prepared for the criticism. His ire was provoked, however, when Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt accused him of siding with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich - nemesis of the Democrats - in a fight over Medicaid in the mid-1990s. 'You've been saying for many months that you're the head of the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party,' Gephardt said. 'I think you're just winging it.' Dean grew visibly angry, mouthing, 'That's false,' while Gephardt spoke. New York activist Al Sharpton pleaded with Dean not to get too personal, and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards also asked that the Democrats focus their fire on President Bush. Edwards also took Dean to task for calling for a repeal of all of Bush's tax cuts. Edwards, along with Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, said Dean's plan would result in higher taxes for the middle class. Kerry, who is chasing Dean in New Hampshire polls, also criticized him for taking credit for balancing Vermont's budget and for saying that the United States should insist its trading partners have equal labor and environment standards. Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich said he was surprised that Dean, a medical doctor, would promote a health insurance plan that doesn't cover every American. Neither do the plans offered by Kerry, Gephardt, Edwards or other candidates, but Kucinich only singled out Dean."
Here's a story from Wired News about some of the draft Wesley Clark gang feeling left out now that he has a campaign. There just doesn't seem to be a lot of positive buzz around Clark's campaign this week. From the article, "Gen. Wesley Clark's late-breaking presidential campaign is facing inevitable growing pains -- not the least of which is incorporating the Internet-based draft movement that convinced him to run. With the campaign barely a week old, some movement leaders say they have yet to receive any communication from campaign headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas. That's to be expected as Clark builds a formal campaign apparatus, those leaders said. But an underlying fear is that the seasoned professionals Clark has recruited to run his campaign will run a traditional, hierarchical political campaign that won't square easily with the more anarchic and collaborative nature of the Internet-based draft movement." Click through to the Wired article, there's lots of good stuff there.
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