I saw him this morning on Face The Nation and was somewhat impressed. He was a little stiff (not as much as Al Gore) but he made a good impression on me. He once again marked his opposition for the upcoming Iraqi war, saying we should be focusing on North Korea instead. He also made a good case for national health, saying that it would lift a lot of economic pressures on working folk and small busnesses. I guess that he must have impress Bob Schiefer, as he complimented Dean at the end of the interview.
If you like him, talk him up to your friends. He doesn't have a lot of money to spend and therefore needs a lot of word-of-mouth publicity. I'm a supporter of Dean's and particularly like his recent comment when a reporter challenged him on the fact that his wife doesn't join him on the campaign trail. To paraphrase his response, he said that he doesn't see his family as a trophy to drag around the country. They are real people with other responsibilities. His wife is also a physician and would have to break numerous appointments to join him on the campaign trail. His son is still in school. Dean was the Lt. Gov of VT when Gov. Snelling died which made Dean the Gov. Dean was also still working a part-time schedule as a physician at that time. Well, when he received the phone call that Snelling had died and they needed to swear him in in Montpelier as the new Gov., Dean finished seeing the patients in his his waiting room first because he figured that they had waited a long time for those appointments and they shouldn't have to reschedule. Even if you strip away all of the policy issues, Dean is just simply a smart good guy. Murf
That's great to hear. But, Jesus H. Christ on a Yugoslavian water buffalo, why the *!@#* does it matter if his wife is on the campaign trail? Aren't there, oh, more important issues for a reporter to ask about? Good God, the quality of political reporting in this country is absolutely puke-it-up-until-you're-dry-heaving awful. It makes me embarassed to have once been a journalist.
In many demographic parts of the country, not having your subservient wife by your side at all times is seen as a form of weakness. Heck, independent thinking by women is all but outlawed in some religions. Maybe she's a lesbian. These things are important, you know.