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NV1962 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-04 12:27 AM
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The Press in Disarray
Here's the very latest catch of articles on the Dem nomination.

I think the immense disparity of headlines points in a single direction: confusion. Uh-oh, after our collective uniform exercise in reprinting W's filthy lies and distortions, how do we react to an open contest?

Very amusing, this public competition of mediocrity and mendacity.

Here's my catch for the day, taken from Google.news a few minutes ago:

Candidates' neckwear still a struggle of blue vs. red
Dallas Morning News (subscription), TX - 32 minutes ago
This time, it's not over the color of the states won by the presidential hopefuls
but the neckwear of the Democrats who want to kick George W. Bush out of the ...

The Democrats: Off to a bad start
International Herald Tribune, France - 6 hours ago
The United States moves into its presidential election year with fresh memories
of good news - the capture of Saddam Hussein, the nuclear capitulation of ...

The front-runner as lightning rod
Christian Science Monitor - 7 hours ago
By Liz Marlantes | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. WASHINGTON
– As the 2004 primary season officially begins, Democrats ...

The Fire This Time
TIME - 8 hours ago
"The biggest issue in this election is jobs and economic security,"
Howard Dean said in Urbandale, Iowa, a few days after Christmas. ...

Sept. 11 attacks likely to shape Bush campaign
Reuters, India - 12 hours ago
By Steve Holland. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - George W. Bush's presidency
was meandering along until the Sept. 11 attacks gave it a purpose ...

Democrats agree Bush taking wrong economic path
Forbes - 12 hours ago
By Tim Ahmann. WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - The improving economy
may undercut the ability of Democrats to take on President George ...

Bush begins the big hunt
Toronto Star, Canada - 20 hours ago
WASHINGTON—George W. Bush began his year in the foggy pre-dawn mist of southern
Texas, a shotgun slung over his shoulder, looking to bag himself some quail. ...

Election 2004: Some guideposts for following the race to the ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - Jan 3, 2004
When a president seeks reelection, the campaign starts with the question of whether
the incumbent's first four years of stewardship justify a renewal of his ...

The Things They Carry
New York Times - Jan 3, 2004
I. A few weeks ago, I asked Howard Dean how, given his vehement opposition to
the war in Iraq, he felt he could overcome the Democrats' reputation as the ...

The Things They Carry
New York Times, NY - Jan 3, 2004
By JAMES TRAUB. few weeks ago, I asked Howard Dean how, given his vehement
opposition to the war in Iraq, he felt he could overcome ...

Waging the last campaign
US News - Jan 3, 2004
Presidential campaigns work best when they are geared to the circumstances
of the election year. George W. Bush in 2000 conceded ...

And they're off! The race begins
Dallas Morning News (subscription), TX - Jan 3, 2004
By DAVID JACKSON / The Dallas Morning News. WASHINGTON – For months,
years and, in some cases, lifetimes, the Democratic candidates ...

Bush turns to party roots for re-election
The Times (subscription), UK - Jan 1, 2004
PRESIDENT BUSH began the new year with an aggressive call-to-arms to the Republican
grassroots yesterday, urging them to give him a second term in office and ...

MORE . . .
Correspondences.org, WA - 8 hours ago
Migod, here we go again. The Vietnam scenario revisited! In the past
week, a new generation of American generals has told the press ...

What did you do during the war, Dr. Dean?
phillyburbs.com, PA - 15 hours ago
Howard Dean, the bilious physician likely to be the Democratic nominee for president,
is, according to several polls, widely unknown to most Democrats and to ...

DEAN and the WORLD
LiberalSlant.com - 17 hours ago
“I will send American troops anywhere in the world .. to defend
the United States!” sounded Howard Dean in New Hampshire just ...

Iraq Has Made us Safer From Terrorism
LiberalSlant.com - 17 hours ago
If the American people ever needed more inspiration to march on Washington, dismantle
the White House brick by brick and throw the current, lying usurpers out ...

Dems zero in on issues
Detroit News, MI - 21 hours ago
By Deb Price / Detroit News Washington Bureau. WASHINGTON — With
former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean leading the pack, the dash for ...

Bush: an opponent, not an enemy
The Tallahassee Democrat - Jan 3, 2004
By Claude Lewis. In politics, too many of us confuse the word opponent with
the word enemy, even though the difference is both obvious and vast. ...

Iraq: What's in store for 2004?
WorldNetDaily - Jan 2, 2004
Iraq will likely be a central theme in the 2004 election, especially now that the
economy has fallen off the radar screen in the campaign headquarters of most ...

The Unelectable, Out of the Mainstream Candidate: Bush
Republicons - Jan 2, 2004
Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean has been characterized by those within the
Democratic Party and numerous political pundits as too liberal to be elected ...

The politics of hate in America
Business Times Singapore (subscription), Singapore - Jan 2, 2004
By ROBERT SAMUELSON. THE political story of 2003 in the US was, in
some ways, the fashionability of 'hate'. It became respectable ...

Dean: ‘You can’t beat George Bush by trying to be like him ...
Exeter News Letter, NH - Jan 2, 2004
By John Pedler. Howard Dean, more than any of the other Democratic
candidates for president, has captured something moving in the ...

Dean : ‘ We want jobs ’
Georgetown Times, SC - Jan 2, 2004
By Tommy Howard, staff writer. Political stump meetings used to be
“the thing” in the rural South. While Tuesday’s visit to ...

Anti-War Democrats Deny It, But Bush Foreign Policy Is Working
Access North Georgia, GA - Jan 2, 2004
I would like to have civil debate, rather than bitter arguments, with our liberal,
anti-war Democrats, but it looks like we-the-people are facing a dirty ...

Republicans have reason to worry about Dean
St. Petersburg Times, FL - Jan 2, 2004
In George Will's Dec. 25 article Howard Dean is the Democrat's best hope,
and their worst case scenario, he states that 34 congressional ...

Democrats Say Bush Taking Wrong Economic Path
Reuters, United States - 11 hours ago
By Tim Ahmann. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The improving economy may undercut
the ability of Democrats to take on President Bush over ...
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revcarol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-04 12:40 AM
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1. You got it. Mediocrity and mendacity.
plus dealing with our campaign as a horse race and only discussing the lead horse, who, of course, doesn't compare with Bush...
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DFLforever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-04 12:53 AM
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2. Nice post, NV
Edited on Mon Jan-05-04 12:57 AM by DFLforever
'mediocrity and mendacity' but also more variety of opinion than found in broadcast media.

BTW the article on Dean by the Exeter News Letter is one of the better ones I've read about him.

And the letter section of the St. Pete Times is one of the few joyful reading experiences we Dems will ever find.
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