New Lieberman ad takes swipes at Dean By Liz Sidoti
Nov. 14, 2003 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman, trailing his major rivals in New Hampshire, takes a few soft swipes at front-runner Howard Dean in a new television ad that began airing Friday.
"I don't think it's right to have raised a divisive symbol like the confederate flag. Or to give up on principles like limiting the amount of money in campaigns," Lieberman says in the commercial.
He doesn't name Dean, but the subject is clear. The former Vermont governor recently came under fire for saying he wanted to be the candidate of Southern whites who drive pickup trucks with the Confederate flag. Dean also rejected public financing and the accompanying spending limits during the primary.
In the political ads to date, Dean has drawn contrasts between himself and his Democratic opponents as a group, but Lieberman's commercial is the first of the presidential campaign that singles out a Democratic rival – albeit without naming names.
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