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Dean began his half-hour speech—the first of the afternoon’s agenda, which lasted over three hours—by mocking his concession address after the Iowa caucus earlier this year. After that enthusiastic January speech, in which Dean recited a list of states he vowed to visit and then let out a scream, the then-candidate slipped rapidly in the polls, leading many pundits to speculate that it had turned voters off to Dean...
...Kerry campaign badly wants to assure African Americans that they have access to and the attention of the candidate. Kerry aides say Congressional Black Caucus chair Elijah Cummings, Representative Greg Meeks of New York City and deputy campaign manager Marcus Jadotte, all African Americans, are among those who talk with the candidate on his ever-present cell phone. Top campaign officials meet with the caucus every two weeks. Vernon Jordan, a former Clinton aide and a prominent black lawyer, was named last week to head the campaign's presidential-debate negotiating team. Kerry has added a section to his campaign...
...Nader, you have a right to run, but we have not heard a reason to run." REPRESENTATIVE ELIJAH CUMMINGS, Democratic chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, during a meeting in which the group asked the third-party candidate to drop out of the presidential race...
...National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and her deputy, Robert Blackwill, in particular, took over the Iraqi political portfolio from an inept Pentagon and told Bremer to find a way to form an Iraqi government that could assume power from the CPA by July 2004. Bremer devised a complex caucus system intended to ensure that the rights of the minority Sunnis and Kurds would be protected. But the plan was never accepted by the key political force in the country, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, the religious leader of the majority Shi'ite Muslims. He wanted direct elections in 2004. Bremer...
...government and figure out whether direct elections were really feasible in 2004. Brahimi and U.N. election expert Carla Perelli ultimately advised Sistani they were not, and Sistani agreed to the current plan: a June 30 handover, with direct elections to be held next January. Bremer finally backed off the caucus idea. Bremer's ultimate willingness to compromise earned him the highest praise of his tenure. Greenstock says that Bremer "was the guiding hand for ending Sistani's block without a bust-up. He managed it very well...