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Dean Tones Down 'Red Meat' Rhetoric After Iowa Loss Tue January 20, 2004 02:15 PM ET (Page 1 of 2) By Patricia Wilson MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Howard Dean on Tuesday toned down his "red meat" rhetoric, hoping to recoup a stunning loss in Iowa with a more subdued campaign in New Hampshire in the Democratic battle to challenge President Bush in November's U.S. election. After coming a distant third in Iowa behind U.S. Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts and John Edwards of North Carolina, Dean seemed to be searching for the right tone as he touted his...

The lovely and talented Page Hopkins of Fox News Channel just completed an interview with representatives of the Gephardt, Kerry and Dean campaigns in Iowa. She asked Dean's campaign manager, Joe Trippi, whether it wasn't hurting Dean for his wife, Judith Steinberg Dean, not to be campaigning for him. Answered Trippi: "She has a very important job as a doctor, and we wouldn't take her away from that." Responded Hopkins, in a spontaneous way, "come on! If my husband ran for president, I'd be out of FNC so fast and out there campaigning for him!" To which an angry Trippi...

OK, so perhaps it won't be Howard Dean. Perhaps the day before the New Hampshire primary he'll throw himself off the stage and choke an audience member who accuses him of being too angry. The evening news might show him rhythmically squeezing some old guy's neck while shouting "I – DON'T – THINK – I'M – ANGRY – ENOUGH!" End of campaign — unless such an outburst boosts his numbers. If the Democrats thought that this egotistical, bad-tempered, scary-eyed, say-anything guy could whomp President Bush, he'd be a shoo-in. But Dean is starting to turn off the middle that he...

The media vs. Howard DeanDemocrats haven't voted yet, but reporters have got the story: The former Vermont governor is angry, gaffe-prone and unelectable. How do they know? Republicans, and anonymous Democrats, told them so. - - - - - - - - - - - -By Eric BoehlertJan. 13, 2004  |  When the Washington Post introduced readers to Howard Dean in a long Page 1 feature July 6, part of a series of "meet the Democrats" candidate profiles, the paper went for the jugular, literally, with a cartoonish, unflattering description to open the article: "Howard Dean was angry. Ropy...

<p>MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa — Front-runner Howard Dean (search), feeling rivals nipping at his heels a week before the Iowa caucuses, says he is firing back at other leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination.</p> <p>"I'm going after everybody because I'm tired of being the pin cushion here," Dean said Monday.</p>

Democrat presidential front-runner Howard Dean took out his frustration on a voter in Iowa on Sunday by engaging in a distasteful temper tantrum before a group of his supporters. Dale Ungerer, a Republican from Hawkeye, Iowa who voted for Bush in 2000, was deeply concerned about the negative rhetoric coming from Dean in his speech, including harsh criticism of President George W. Bush on his Iraq policy and the economy. After Dean finished his speech to the audience at the Oelwein Community Center, he asked the overwhelmingly pro-Dean crowd of supporters if they had any "questions, comments or rude remarks"...

January 13, 2004 THE FORMER VERMONT GOVERNOR Surges by Rivals Put Dean on the Defensive in Iowa By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JODI WILGOREN ELLA, Iowa, Jan. 12 — In the closing days before the Iowa caucuses here, Howard Dean has slipped into turbulent territory, facing challenges in both Iowa and New Hampshire, the two states where he is looking to nail down the nomination with early victories. Here in Iowa, where the race between Dr. Dean and Representative Richard A. Gephardt is remarkably close, Dr. Dean's supporters expressed distress at what many described as his faltering performance in a televised...

washingtonpost.com Dean Lashes Out at Rivals Democrat 'Tired of Being a Pincushion' By John F. Harris and Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, January 13, 2004; Page A01 PELLA, Iowa, Jan. 12 -- Former Vermont governor Howard Dean opened the final week of campaigning before next week's crucial Iowa caucuses with a sharp attack on his leading rivals Monday, charging that they are part of a Washington establishment that failed to hold President Bush to account and that they cannot bring change to the capital or the country. The campaign in Iowa remains extremely fluid, with many undecided voters....

Dean Feels Heat From Rivals, Shoots Back By NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press WriterMOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa Front-runner Howard Dean, feeling rivals nipping at his heels a week before the Iowa caucuses, says he is firing back at other leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination."I'm going after everybody because I'm tired of being the pin cushion here," Dean said Monday.The former Vermont governor told several audiences that if they want to change Washington, they should not vote for a Washington politician. He singled out rivals John Kerry, John Edwards and Dick Gephardt by name for supporting the Bush administration's war with...

<p>DES MOINES, Iowa - Howard Dean's worst debate performance came at the worst possible time: just as Iowans are getting ready to vote.</p> <p>He was stuck on the defensive almost all night, and got the worst of it from Al Sharpton as Dean tried to defend his failure to hire minority Cabinet members and stumbled over citizenship for immigrants serving in the Army.</p>

Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean blew his stack at an Iowa voter on Sunday who had asked him to end his "slam, bam and bash" rhetoric attacking President Bush. "Please tone down the garbage, the mean-mouthing of tearing down your neighbor and being so pompous," said Dale Ungerer during a question-and-answer session initiated by Dean after he had delivered his standard stump speech at the Oelwein Community Centre on Sunday. Dean's response was calm at first, telling Ungerer, "George Bush is not my neighbor." But when the Iowa Republican stood and tried to interrupt, Dean shouted: "You sit down. You...

Iowa Voter Blasts Dean for Knocking Bush AP Sun Jan 11, 6:35 PM ET By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer OELWEIN, Iowa - Howard Dean rejected a voter's request to be more neighborly and stop "mean mouthing" President Bush, saying Sunday someone needs to stand up to the president. Dale Ungerer, a retiree from Hawkeye, Iowa, lectured Dean for nearly three minutes near the end of a forum aimed at winning voters for Iowa's Jan. 19 caucuses. Ungerer accused Dean and other Democratic presidential hopefuls of dividing the country by bashing Bush instead of outlining their own plans and showing...

OELWEIN, Iowa (Reuters) - Dale Ungerer, a 66-year-old retiree from Hawkeye, Iowa, succeeded on Sunday where eight Democratic presidential hopefuls have failed -- he made front-runner Howard Dean show a flash of his much-discussed temper. The former Vermont governor had just finished his standard stump speech blasting President Bush for, among other things, his Iraq policy and his stewardship of the economy. He asked, as is his custom, for "questions, comments or rude remarks in the New England tradition." Ungerer, wearing a T-shirt bearing the words "Mr Fix It," rose to his feet and condemned what he called the incivility...

Someone asked Howard Dean, at a town hall type meeting, to tone down his rhetoric. He went ballistic on the questioner.

MIAMI (Reuters) - An elderly Vietnamese monk set himself alight in a Buddhist temple in the United States to protest at the lack of religious freedom and demand democracy in his communist homeland, a follower said on Saturday. Thich Chan Hy, 74, killed himself in front of a statue of Avalokita Bodhisattva, a figure of compassion, before daybreak on Christmas Eve, said Phuong Huynh, a youth group leader at the Lien Ha temple in Charlotte-Mecklenburg in North Carolina. "He left a letter to his master on a scroll...with three wishes that he had given up his life for," Huynh told...