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...been spilling ever since. Gephardt appears to be working his way through a thesaurus of anger. In the second debate, the Bush Administration was an "abomination." In our conversation last week, Bush was "atrocious." Can "awful" be far behind...
...Gephardt's assault on Dean for merely contemplating reform of both programs was almost completely irresponsible. He told a Des Moines audience of aged Iowa trade-unionists how important those entitlements had been to his 95-year-old mother, but he had nothing to say about the financial burdens they will place on his grandchildren. He did not even acknowledge the actuarial crises in Social Security and Medicare; he did not propose any reforms at all. Later, over lunch, he indicated that Social Security and Medicare should stay pretty much the way they are; a balanced budget, a growing economy...
...Gephardt began his speech by saying, "Most of us in this room can remember 1950"--a line Howard Dean undoubtedly has never uttered, since most of his supporters weren't born then. And it does seem that Gephardt's world view was pickled in 1950, in the era of big manufacturing and big unions and Big Government. There is a fair amount of nostalgia in Iowa for those days--and Gephardt's geriatric strategy, bolstered by his door-to-door stubbornness, may prove a stultifying antidote to Dean's unnerving whoosh of a campaign...
...very charming one at that. When attacked, he righteously tucks his chin into his chest and looks a bit like the Saturday Night Live Church Lady. He is learning the perils of impolitic candor. A national CNN poll last week put Dean's summer surge in perspective: Gephardt, Dean, Joe Lieberman and John Kerry were bunched in the teens, with the flavor of next month, General Wesley Clark, surprisingly strong at 10%. This is a wide-open race--and the tortoise is a player...
...antiwar protests,” will object that Dean stands too far to the left of the American mainstream. That Dean is running well among students is undeniable, but this should not be turned into a mark against him. For example, Dean is currently running about even with Richard Gephardt in Iowa, a state that is hardly overrun with Kavulla’s “liberal rich kids...