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...hour earlier, about 100 students gathered in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room (JCR) for a more intimate meeting with the candidate. The audience was treated to a veritable preview of that night’s “Hardball” taping; many of Gephardt??s responses in the Kirkland question and answer session were identical to the ones he later gave Chris Matthews, the show’s fast-talking, pugnacious host...
...September, the domestic “trade meltdown”—the collapse of the Clinton-era consensus on free trade—has returned glaringly to the fore. A New York Times columnist recently pointed out that most of the Democratic hopefuls have shifted toward Dick Gephardt??s protectionist stance. Dennis Kucinich is calling for the outright repeal of NAFTA. And Joe Lieberman is stuck in the lonely role of defending Clinton’s laissez faire trade philosophy...
...health care, the candidates identified what Clark called a “crisis” in a country with 41 million uninsured, but presented divergent plans for shoring up the nation’s health care system, ranging from Gephardt??s $228-billion-a-year program to fund employer-based insurance to more limited and less costly coverage proposals. They also tackled the issue of soaring prescription drug costs, with Graham, Lieberman and Kucinich backing drug reimportation plans and Sharpton and Dean warning congressional Democrats not to settle for the current compromise plan under consideration in Congress...