Reply #2: The word "pleads" is slanted. I received the e-mail [View All]

[milkyway]

from Dean, and he was asking for donations to pay off the campaign's debt, but I didn't think of him as pleading with me. This word makes him sound like he's desparately begging people for the donations. And this is from the staid AP! Dean's request did not strike me as unusual; every donation to any campaign is used to pay bills. What might be a bit unusual is that Dean is no longer actively campaigning. But he's a balanced budget kind of guy, and wants to erase what is a relatively small debt (other Presidential candidates have piled up a lot more than $400,000 of debt) before Dean For America evolves into a different kind of organization.