"Who is Howard Dean?"- The Pundits give the answers

[Vrai]

The Repugnicans are going to attack Dean with a two-pronged attack:
Socialized Medicine and Homosexual Civil Unions. Gays in the Military and
Hillary's Health Plan is what got them the Gingrich Revolution, and I fear
it is going to work for them again. (Even though a mojority of people will
vote for Dean, that's not what will come out of the Diebold Electonic Voting
Machines...)


A Browser's Guide to Campaign 2004, Cont'd
http://www.slate.msn.com/id/2093412/
Slate reads another Dean book so you don't have to.
By Chris Suellentrop
Posted Friday, Jan. 2, 2004, at 4:10 PM PT

On Aug. 14, 1991, Vermont Gov. Richard Snelling died and was replaced by his
mostly unknown lieutenant governor. The state's press corps could only
wonder, "Who is Howard Dean?" writes David Moats, the editorial page editor
of the Rutland Herald, in the introduction to Howard Dean: A Citizen's Guide
to the Man Who Would Be President. The book is written by "a team of
reporters for Vermont's Rutland Herald & Times-Argus" who purport to know
Dean best. Moats writes, "It took the next decade for those of us in the
press, and our readership, to gain an understanding of the energetic,
ambitious politician who was sworn into office that summer afternoon in
1991."

Unfortunately for the nation, the Vermont press corps can't give us 10 years
to gain an understanding of Howard Dean. Instead, they've given us 245
pages. The book sketches a pretty positive portrait, but fair or not, the
juicy parts tend to be Dean's lesser-known lowlights:

Like father, unlike son: After being rejected for World War II service "on
medical grounds," Dean's father volunteers for a civilian job helping the
Allied cause in North Africa. (When Dean bypassed Vietnam under similar
circumstances, he went skiing.)

Strange bedfellows: Brother Jim Dean (who now works for the campaign)
describes his brother's 1971 graduation from Yale: "We get to Howard's room,
and he isn't there, but there are a bunch of people apparently living there
who aren't Yale students but are kind of street people with tattoos and
all."

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