Shooting From the Hip, Dean Drew Fire - Los Angeles Times

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=716&e=29&u=/latimests/20040208/ts_latimes/shootingfromthehipdeandrewfire

The day after Saddam Hussein was caught in his spider hole, Howard Dean stepped before a crush of TV cameras to offer a statesmanlike appraisal.


It was "not a day to talk about politics," the former Vermont governor said that muggy December morning in Palm Beach, Fla. He saluted the military and called it "a great day" for the Bush administration.


Fewer than 24 hours later, however, Dean's tone shifted — and along with it the fortunes of his high-flying campaign.


As his caravan motored to a Los Angeles hotel, Dean penciled a new line into the foreign policy address he was about to give. He had labored for months over the speech, helped by a team of eminent advisors that included former Vice President Al Gore.

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[ithacan]

1. but Dean was right on everything he said...

the US was NOT safer because of the capture of SH. In fact, the entire war had made the US much LESS safe.

SH was by that time marginal or irrelevant. As we now see, his capture did nothing to stop the insurgency. In fact, people who were previously ambivalent because they did not want SH back in power were freed to join once it was clear he was totally out of the picture.

The media is so much BS.

Those of us who were anti-war have been proven 100% correct. Will the media every acknowledge that? No. Instead, they have to attack anyone who points out the truth. Dean is a victim of that. Clark too has been attacked for just pointing out facts that are well-known to many DUers.

The media is part of the problem.

[NNN0LHI]

2. Absolutely he was right. But being right didn't play well in Peoria

And that is the bottom line.

Don

[HereSince1628]

5. Peoria? more like bit the dust in Bettindorf

It's going to be a while before the dust settles enough to make sense out this...and as the dust settles it will cover some of the footprints.

I believe the murder-suicide attack ads between Gephardt and Dean will be seen to have lost Iowa for both and bankrupted Dean. But at this point that's just a belief.

[ShaneGR]

3. As Clinton said

It's better to be wrong but strong then weak and right.

[patricia92243]

4. Dean went from single digits to 30% - that's with the press tearing him...

down at every wakeing breath. Just give him a couple more weeks and he will be #1 again - thank God - I mean that literally.