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maandag, augustus 25, 2003
Late Edition interview met Howard Dean
In een aardig interview met Democratische kandidaat Howard Dean, zijn zoveelste optreden voor de media in korte tijd, toonde CNN's Late Edition dat mensen toch nerveus beginnen te worden van de ex-gouverneur van Vermont.

Zo was daar Democratisch concurrent Joseph Lieberman: "He could well be a ticket to nowhere. He could take the Democratic Party out into the political wilderness for a long time, because his positions, in my opinion, don't even reflect the majority of Democrats, let alone the majority of the American people."

Waarop Dean reageerde met: "I think Joe's campaign is in some trouble and he knows it."

Maar ook de tegenpartij begint de frontale aanval op Dean, in de bekende venijnige vorm van humor waar de Republikeinen groot mee zijn geworden:

Lid van het Huis van Afgevaardigden Tom Delay, leider van de Republikeinse meerderheid: "While everyone else got the memo that big-government, blame-America-first liberalism died with disco... [gelach] ... the Howard Dean Democrats still want to party like it's 1979. [gelach]."

Ook daar was Dean niet van onder de indruk: "I balanced budgets; Tom DeLay has never done that."

"I made sure every child in my state had health insurance. In Tom DeLay's state, they just cut 230,000 children off health care because they couldn't balance their budget."

"I delivered jobs. The Republicans haven't delivered any jobs for a long time. And the Republicans haven't balanced the budget for 34 years in this country."

"Let's let the American people decide who's the centrist, who's the mainstream political force here. I think Congressman DeLay and the president are way out there on the extremes."




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