2004 Elections: Democratic Party Contenders

Ran across this, as well.
Edwards looks shadier and shadier, though the article does say they are investigating the contributions, not wrongdoing by the campaign.

Still...




...assured them they'd be reimbursed...

wow thats a first

You see anything positive you can say about the dem candidates, Sofia?

Sure, do you see anything negative?

Anyhoo-- I'm just bringing in articles from MSNBC. I didn't write them...

Do you have a comment on the articles?

HEY! The first article wasn't negative. It is give and take between two candidates. Sheesh!

the most obvious negative is that ANYONE running for president is nuts.

inclined to agree with that one, Dys...

dys!!

Who came off better to you in the Kerry/Dean skirmish? (With the understanding that all politics suck on a few levels....)

Do you think either of them pocketed any political capital? Lost any? (This is not a trick question.)

Hey...
Is Graham officially in? If so, why the pass on this debate? Anybody know?

Good stuff Sofia....

Think yew, Mapleleaf.
I'm starting to think I'm the only one excited about the impending race...

Some of us are quite interested, Sophia, we just are quietly waiting to see what happens in the next few months. I get campaign updates from both Kerry and Dean, the two I like the most.

Here is an article by Roy Texeira who wrote a book with John Judis called "The Emerging Democratic Majority." Things may not be as gloomy for the Dems if they can get angry and enthused. I am both.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0305.teixeira.html

"They're meaningless unless Democrats can find the right combination of politics and ideas to fire up their base while appealing to independents and other swing voters.."

Great article, Vnn! BUT, the above sentence says it all. My sense is that Dean is doing the right thing and that efforts will be made (if he gets successful) to rein him in. Probably the best thing we could do is aim a bazooka at Bush, point fingers, get mad, get real.

Yeah, Tartarin, agreed. A lot hinges on whether Democrats can respond at the local level with vehemence! I signed up with several grassroots organizations locally, and one in Minnesota with the Wellstone Foundation run by Mark and David Wellstone. I am ready to work and fight.

Who is the Century Foundation as mentioned at the base of the article?

Yup, I signed into the Wellstone Foundation too -- I think that's a very good plan.

The Century Foundation is the old 20th Century Fund -- name change. http://www.tcf.org/

I blow hot and cold on this, but right now I'm getting warmer. It's beginning to look like a little sea change. The successful blocking of Owen, the filibuster on Estrada that's lasted longer than I thought, the dems hanging together on the tax thing - and various domestic issues coming to the fore. And the Iraqi war apparently not quite as successful as Bush-Rumsfeld say. Heard today a report from a Newsweek person named Michael (can't remember last name) from Iraq, in which he said that things on the ground in Iraq were not so good as Bush would be saying tonight. Now, lets see what our candidates do with all of this. The Century Foundation is a good source to check into from time to time. And part of the Judis-Texeira book appeared last year as a long article in the New Republic. That was when I first began to think that things might change, after all.

It looks pretty bleak, gang.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,85826,00.html

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