Confessions of a reformed Deaniac [View All]

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Kerry versus Dean contrasted in this article from San Francisco Sentinel:

With Hugh Gurin
Confessions of a reformed Deaniac

Monday, September 15, 2003

Like most of you reading the Sentinel, I am convinced that nothing is more important for our nation, and the world at large, than regime change in Washington DC. And like many of you, I am excited by the energy and honesty of Dr. Howard Dean’s campaign for President.

I think the Democratic Party and indeed, the American people owe Dr. Dean a debt of gratitude for revolutionizing grass-roots activism, and more importantly, getting young people excited about politics again.

That being said, I plan to vote for John Kerry in 2004.

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I began to compare and contrast. Kerry’s economic plans call for a real commitment to eliminating our dependence on foreign oil, (so do Dean’s,) with the significant difference that Kerry has a strategy, for how to actually do it. One that would create 500,000 good paying energy sector jobs. Kerry supports creating American jobs and renewing our cities through building infrastructure, school construction and modernization, tax credits and cleaning up polluted areas in our country.

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http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/id282.htm