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...Reluctant Campaigner Columnist Michael Kinsley argued that "we need to know about a politician's spouse ... in order to understand the candidate's character" [Jan. 26], but I have absolutely no problem with Dr. Judith Steinberg Dean's not tagging along behind her husband on the campaign trail. I find her dedication to their teenage son and to the patients in her medical practice admirable, not mysterious. When I make my decision on whom I will vote for, I will do so because I have listened to the candidate's platform and not because his spouse had a nifty outfit...
...enough to let each pursue his or her own career. Haven't we progressed beyond those scenes of Nancy Reagan gazing worshipfully at her Ronnie? I saw Dean's wife briefly on TV, and it was enough to convince me that Howard Dean is to be commended. Dr. Judith Steinberg Dean appears to be a real person, taking care of real business. Surely she is doing more good by attending to her patients than she would by acting like an adoring appendage to her husband. Dean can take care of himself; he doesn't need to prop himself...
...really care too much what I wear, and I'm sure it would be criticized and my hair and everything else ... It just doesn't bother me that much." JUDITH STEINBERG DEAN, wife of Democratic candidate Howard Dean, in an interview with Diane Sawyer...
...wife, though, is someone who plays a real strategic role in her husband's campaign, like Hillary Clinton or Elizabeth Edwards (lawyer wife of Democratic candidate John Edwards). Or someone with an independent base of celebrity, like Teresa Heinz Kerry or Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger. We have no model for Steinberg, about whom we know almost nothing except that she is Jewish and a doctor. While her husband has been staging one of the most remarkable insurgent presidential campaigns in history, she has continued to cure the sick back in Vermont, as if there were nothing more useful she could...
...JUDITH STEINBERG DEAN She loves treating patients and hopes to still practice medicine if her husband is elected to the Oval Office...