[small voice in the wilderness]

Explaining that every time she had a baby, the dining room would serve as a bedroom for the newborn and his nurse

BWHAHAHAHA!! They really DO NOT GET IT, do they? DGIH, what's it gonna take to shake them into reality?

[thegreatbeast]

No mention of the priveleged upbringing of that old lion of the senate, Ted Kennedy, who while his daddy was ambassador to England had his son receive First Communion from the pope of that time.

[Cicero]

Too much can be made of these similarities, of course. Certainly Dr. Dean, 55, and his family feel it is misleading to tag them as Bushlike bluebloods, despite the fact that they own a Park Avenue apartment and an East Hampton country house.

Try pricing a three-bedroom apartment on Park Avenue (plus living room, dining room, library, entrance hall, study, kitchen, butler's pantry, and a maid's bedroom or two, I would guess, all with 12 foot ceilings). Or a house in East Hampton, which is more blueblooded than South Hampton.

I have friends who live this way, but no one would pretend that it isn't a bit beyond the usual.

[billorites]

The Conversion of St. Howard on the Bikepath to Burlington

[billorites]

"A C.E.O.'s skills are essentially the same, no matter the size of the company,"

What a stupid thing to say.

[Criminal Number 18F]

the inroads Dr. Dean might make among swing voters

Someone left the meds locker open at the Times again, and the staff got into the pretty pills.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Criminal Number 18F]

Years later, he remembers, his parents were immediately accepting of his decision to marry Judith Steinberg, even though it was highly unusual for someone from his family background to marry a Jew.

Why, isn't that special. [ MRS HOWELL VOICE] Of course, we couldn't let Howard in our club any more, but do you know, his little Jewess was just like a human! [/ MRS HOWELL]

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[joesnuffy]

I like the way Dean isnt depending upon his anti war peacecreep image to please the commie liberasl and keeps trotting out for conservative dems.....his "lost in Laos" big brother...who MAY have worked for the CIA.....
What a phoney SOB....right up their with Clinton tears...Hillary's patrotism...algore's many inventions & fabrications...ketchup (catsup) boyze war record....and Daschole's integrity....

[Criminal Number 18F]

"When I was growing up," [Ma Dean] said, "we didn't even treat the servants like servants."

Ah, now that's what makes Howard what he is. Blind condescension.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[speekinout]

Dr. Dean, 55, and his family feel it is misleading to tag them as Bushlike bluebloods, despite the fact that they own a Park Avenue apartment and an East Hampton country house.

Bush grew up in Texas, not on Park Avenue & East Hampton. I'd say the "blueblood" label is misapplied in the Bush case. But not in Dean's.
Very few would call every Yalie a "blueblood".

[Freee-dame]

They attended top prep schools and Yale. And they settled far from traditional power enclaves, reinventing themselves as archetypes of their chosen new homes, President Bush in swaggering Texas and Dr. Dean in outdoorsy Vermont.

George W. Bush attended the local public school through fourth or fifth grade. I wonder if Dean has ever attended public school?

W also moved to Texas as a toddler and has had Texas as his domicile most of his life. At what age did Dean move to Vermont?

"Billionaire Ross Perot's" extremely modest bungalow childhood home was almost never shown, but Algore's Tennessee "farm" was a term of constant reference. No bias in the old media....

[Erasmus]

The headline has a gratuitous "l" in it.