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  VTGOP CANDIDATE WIRESeptember 12, 2003http://www.vtgop.org Taking A Page From The Racine Playbook… DEAN BEGINS "ENDLESS FLIP-FLOP TOUR" "'YOU CAN'T BE ON BOTH SIDES OF AN ISSUE,' DEAN SAID. 'THAT KILLS US.'" --Howard Dean quoted in the Washington Post, "Past Votes Dog Some Presidential Candidates," 9/12/03 "Democratic 2004 front-runner Howard Dean is starting to get a reputation for talking out of both sides of his mouth - and not just on Israel. That could become a big problem for a guy who's running on a ‘tell it like it is’ platform - it may be the first hint of an Achilles...

Dean fights criticism over Hamas comments September 12, 2003 By DARREN M. ALLEN Vermont Press Bureau MONTPELIER — Howard Dean on Friday fended off a torrent of criticism for likening members of the Hamas terrorist group to soldiers in a war, the latest in a series of misstatements on the Middle East that have dogged the Democratic front-runner all week. On Wednesday, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked the former Vermont governor his opinion on whether Israel should be assassinating Hamas leaders. “I think no one likes to see violence of any kind. That’s why the United States is involved. I will...

<p>WASHINGTON — Most of the nine Democratic candidates for president took the day off from campaigning Thursday to attend memorials commemorating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.</p> <p>Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman (search), fluctuating in polls, visited a firehouse in Miami and complained that the Bush administration has not adequately funded first responders.</p>

What Makes The Bush Haters So Mad? First, it was how he got the job. Now it's how much he's doing with it By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Bill Moyers may have his politics, but his deferential demeanor and almost avuncular television style made him the Mr. Rogers of American politics. So when he leaves his neighborhood to go to a "Take Back America" rally and denounces George W. Bush's "government of, by and for the ruling corporate class," leading a "right-wing wrecking crew" engaged in "a deliberate, intentional destruction of the United States way of governing," you know that something is...