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Politics and Pop Culture.
And occasionally informative, amusing, or bizzare non sequiturs.
Matt's in charge here, others can post.
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wWednesday, July 23, 2003 |
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The Democrats' War TrapDick Gephardt deserves Howard Dean. In a sense, he created him.
If anyone has personified the failure of the Democratic establishment to provide the party with a distinct profile during the Bush presidency, it's Gephardt. As House Democratic leader, Gephardt clung to Bush's Iraq policy until it all but unraveled over the past month. Gephardt's endorsement last fall of the administration's war resolution effectively derailed a bipartisan effort in the Senate to require the White House to win more international backing. Of course, at the end he ends up saying Kerry is probably the better candidate. I just don't think he can do it. I think the surgery took more out of him than he's admitting, and I don't think he can campaign as hard as Dean. That matters a lot, but no one talks about it.
posted by
Matthew Carroll-Schmidt at 9:57 AM
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