Reply #93: It's not that it is Dean.... [View All]

this is Gephardt's status quo for running a presidential campaign...as anyone who recalls his last bid for the nomination can attest too. And Gephardt is part and parcel of what occured in 2002....both he and Daschle succumbed to Bush's pressure to hold the vote before the election....remember, the Dems controlled the Senate thanks to Jeffords....so Daschle could have tabled the vote until after the election....

Now why would someone do this....because both men where preparing to run for Pres. in 2004 and choose their own personal futures against the needs of the country and our party....YOU DON'T RUN TO THE MIDDLE IN A MID-TERM ELECTION!!!!!!!!!!!! And any Dem in the Senate who didn't raise holy hell and push back at Daschle are themselves responsible for all that has occured in Iraq...they can fillabuster Estrada but couldn't even raise up any resistance when millions of people around the world were trying to fight in vain cause our leadership in the government was pathetic....AND STILL IS!!!!

Kerry was in the Senate, wasn't he? Oh, and was that Gephardt I saw at the signing ceremony with the president? hmmmmm......talk about historical reality and a time line....