Dean Displays Wall Street Roots on Campaign Trail

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&e=1&u=/nm/20040107/pl_nm/campaign_dean_roots_dc

Dean rails at President Bush (news - web sites) for his government "of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations," excoriates companies like ADM and Cargill for displacing family farmers and vows to shut them out if he wins the White House on Nov. 2.

"They didn't do anything for me on the way in, they didn't do anything for me on the way out, and I'm not going to do anything for them while I'm there," he told cheering supporters at a Charles City, Iowa, museum which displays a two-headed pig in a jar, farm machinery and other agricultural artifacts.

Dean, the former governor of Vermont, flirted briefly with a financial career in the 1970s, found it unsatisfying and told the father he had followed to Yale and Wall Street that he wanted to go back to school and become a doctor. He graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1978.

But the two years or so Dean spent as a stockbroker and analyst in New York served him well in rural Iowa this week where farmers and retirees wanted to know how he felt about monetary policy, interest rates and retirement savings.

[Monte Carlo]

1. I saw Dean on MSNBC being interviewed a while back...

... by Ron Insana, and he did very well for himself. He was able to defend his fiscal/tax/financial record well, and speak the language of the business world fluently while doing it. He's one smart cookie. Now I know where he learned it.

[Brian_Expat]

2. It's good to see our future president

ready to turn the economy around for America. :)

[Cheswick2.0]

3. it is nice to remember there are real people out there

Thanks for the story.

[dkf]

4. I don't understand why the other candidates aren't talking about the

dangers of having such a large deficit.

Dean can't possibly be the only one who gets it.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

6. Kucinich is

That's why he wants to cut waste out of the Pentagon budget and bring the deficit down.

[slinkerwink]

5. I'm glad Dean's talking about the dangers of the deficit

[killbotfactory]

7. It will be nice to have a president who understands economics

Clearly, George "Failure" Bush has never had a grasp on the subject.