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Whopper: Howard DeanOh, that bizarre and irresponsible remark!Timothy NoahPosted Saturday, Dec. 13, 2003, at 7:08 PM PT Scott Spradling, WMUR-TV: Governor Dean, you had once stated that you thought it was possible that the president of the United States had been forewarned about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. You later said that you didn't really know. A statement like that, don't you see the possibility of some Democrats being nervous about statements like that leading them to the conclusion that you are not right for being the next commander in chief? Howard Dean: Well, in all due respect, I did not exactly state that. —Exchange...

Howard Dean is coming to Arizona tomorrow. "Welcoming Committees" are being formed right now to great him. A Social Security reform group called For Our Grandchildren is organizing some of the greeting parties. Some FReepers are going to be involved too. Here's the info: Sun City Rally: 8:30am at Sundial Recreation Center 103rd Ave. at Boswell Blvd ("Welcoming committee" meeting at far end of parking lot.) Jessica Bortolini will be meeting demonstrators on the far end of the parking lot to organize. If people are looking for Jessica, her car is a green Honda civic. Yuma Rally: 12:30pm at Ramada...

Candidate: Howard Dean Category: Foreign Policy Grade: D Howard Dean's new ad in Iowa is a lot like the candidate himself: blunt. The ad shows a picture of Congressman Richard Gephardt, Dean's chief rival, standing with President Bush at the White House on October 2--the day Bush and his supporters announced that they had secured congressional support for waging war with Iraq. Says the voice-over, "October 2002. Dick Gephardt agrees to co-author the Iraq war resolution, giving George Bush the authority to go to war. A week later, with Gephardt's support, it passes Congress." Next the narrator mentions that Gephardt...