Reply #4: No, they voted against them and fought very hard in the process [View All]

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Dean used this lie earlier on, and ducked when confronted. Clark is now using it, and it is scurrilous.

Edwards, in particular, is much maligned by this: it's much more of a personal risk voting against them coming from North Carolina than from Massachusetts. (Not that Kerry's any slouch either, mind you.)

Clark, with this, shows himself to be deeply unprincipled; he knows better, and as first in his class and a Rhodes scholar, dimness and ignorance can't be used as excuses. He also knows that this was brought out earlier and shot down.

What they did do was try to float a smaller, compromise bill on the '03 dividend tax cut when they knew that they couldn't muster the votes to defeat the big giveaway. This is TO BE COMMENDED. They didn't just give up when they knew they couldn't win, they tirelessly fought a rearguard action to lessen the damage. Clark knows this, and deliberately distorts when it's a core issue of the campaign. I am furious.

Clark supporters should speak out about this, and he should retract it. This is, by the strict, loose and any other definition a LIE.

Clark is proving himself to be a reckless as Dean has been at times, and this is deplorable. Edwards and Kerry had to stand up and be counted on things like this; Dean and Clark did not.

What do we have to go on with Clark other than his word? He has virtually no record. Now, we find that his word is repeatedly, incessantly spotty. He may very well serve as a spoiler in this race, and hurt the eventual candidate with this nastiness in the process; it would be bad enough if true, but when it's false, it's...well, it's just...