Hi! I am at my son's house now. The baby is still sick, and grandson's cold is worse. I will be pretty busy. I already made scrambled eggs for grandson and French toast for granddaughter, which they ate while watching cartoons.
Goiing to clean up the kitchen now. Baby is still asleep.
Today's lead story on the Des Moines Register's online edition: More about the Dim Candidates snipping:
Politics
Rivals attack 'divisive' Dean claim
Other candidates challenge the idea that his backers won't vote if he isn't the Democratic nominee.
By THOMAS BEAUMONT, Register Staff Writer, 12/30/2003
Oelwein, Ia. - Three Democratic presidential candidates campaigning in Iowa on Monday challenged rival Howard Dean's prediction that many of his own supporters would abandon the party's nominee next year if it were any one of them.
Sen. John Kerry, campaigning in northeast Iowa, called the comment "extraordinarily divisive."
Dean's popularity among young activists has been credited for propelling him to the front of the Democratic pack in the presidential race. He said Sunday his supporters are "certainly not going to vote for a conventional Washington politician" if Dean fails to win the nomination.
Dean's comments came as he was expressing frustration about attacks his rivals have leveled against him. Dean is the front-runner in Iowa, which holds the lead-off nominating caucuses Jan. 19, and other early nominating states.
But Kerry said Dean's frustration is eclipsed by the potential of damaging the party's prospects against President Bush.
"He said that his people would take a walk and that the party was doomed if they didn't nominate him or something to that effect, which I found to be an extraordinarily divisive, disparaging statement which is very contrary to the spirit of our party," Kerry told reporters en route to an event in Oelwein.
Kerry, at the start of a three-day northern Iowa campaign swing, was joined by Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards in challenging Dean's assertion that no other candidate has sparked enthusiasm among new and disaffected voters.(snip)
http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4789004/23131856.html