How you can interpret a wonderfully subtle attack on Dean in his favor...
A tightwad Democrat
than ends with
After all, he is a liberal, isnt he.
is the typical dry New England Humor about the person they are writing about.
If you do not get the dry humor in all of this, you simply dont get it at all.
The second article is stright reporting, and has NOTHING favorable or unfavorable about Dean at all. It is mostly a simple bean count on how many people showed up at his rallis, with a few quotes from Dean himself. ONe old mans opinion, a quote from Dean himself and Dean draging 300 people in one city and 1200 in another.
THATS PRAISE...
You are reaching, and your reach exceeds Deans grasp
Dean kept his distance from his party’s liberals during his governorship.
"He seemed to take glee in attacking us at every opportunity and using us as a way to form alliances with more conservative elements," said former state Sen. Cheryl Rivers, a leader of the state Democrats’ liberal wing and former chairwoman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee.
Dean fashioned himself a position in the political center of Vermont politics even as the state has moved steadily to the left.
http://premium1.fosters.com/2003/news/may%5F03/may%5F19/news/reg%5Fvt0519a.aspThis is a more accurate depiction of Dean and what democrats think of him there. Vermont Democrats for the most part , are far to the left of Howard Dean, and most of the newspapers there are far more liberal than the New York Times.