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Omaha Steve

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Sat Jul-14-07 09:41 PM
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Dodd is my copilot

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/07/10/dodd_interview/

Dodd is my copilot

In an interview, Chris Dodd questions Hillary's electability, and talks about battling his old friend Joe Lieberman and defying Bush on Syria.

By Walter Shapiro

July 10, 2007 | MASON CITY, Iowa -- Chris Dodd, the Democratic senator from Connecticut, sat down with Salon for an interview last Thursday evening as his campaign bus headed from Charles City to Mason City, Iowa. The following transcript has been edited slightly for length.

I was just with Joe Biden, and I asked him this same question: Is it possible that politics has just changed, and we're in an era of rock-star politics with two candidates like Obama and Hillary Clinton? Do you sometimes worry that you're running in the wrong year?

It could be, obviously. Who knows? We'll know the answer to the question . My instinct is that the answer is no. This is not the first time that we have been through this.

REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus

Chris Dodd speaks during a "kitchen table" session April 13 with firefighters in North Las Vegas, Nev.

can be a false conclusion based on celebrity and crowds that come out of curiosity, out of interest, out of respect, all sorts of reasons. And when people close that proverbial curtain, they take this stuff pretty seriously. And in a state here that has years of experience in dealing with this, 1980, when Senator Kennedy and Jimmy Carter . Certainly, Teddy's status might qualify as rock star in those days.

I get the sense that people like this deal here . They realize that in a caucus state there is a level of commitment that forces your participation in a way that is very different than anything else that occurs. You got to show up for two hours. You've got to be on time. You've got to know what you're doing. And this requires a level of sophistication unlike a primary state.

As this process matures, what someone felt in January, February, March or April is different than what they felt in June, July and August. It will mature into something else in the fall. People will recognize that "I'm in the middle of the business of maybe electing the next president. And maybe 125,000 of us in this small state will certainly winnow out this field and maybe select the nominee." They take this pretty damn seriously.

FULL 3 page story at link.

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iamjoy

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Sat Jul-14-07 09:55 PM
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1. I'm Starting To Like Him

I'm on board with Edwards and initially did not like Dodd, but that's rapidly changing.

First, at NALEO (Conf. of Latin Officials in Orlando a few weeks ago). I'm standing in the rotunda in my Edwards shirt, with several other Edwards supporters. Dodd walks though all but alone. Just being friendly, I smile and wave. He smiles and waves back and it didn't seem like that phony politican smile and wave.

Then, he handled the whole Clinton/Edwards debate thing like a real statesman. No drama. Sometimes, when some one does something bad, that quiet dignity is far more effective at making them feel the appropriate shame than fury, even if that fury is understandable or appropriate.

But, then, he showed his humor. He got the Jewish joke and took it one further. Very cute.

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Captain Hilts

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Sat Jul-14-07 10:19 PM
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2. I'm rooting for him [and Clark and Richardson], but I do think Hillary is electable. nt

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tiptoe

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Sat Jul-14-07 11:21 PM
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3. Dodd has my VETO, if he still believes re 2004-election & voting machines as related here:

Edited on Sun Jul-15-07 12:02 AM by tiptoe

source: Mark Crispin Miller: “Kerry Told Me He Now Thinks the Election Was Stolen”

MARK CRISPIN MILLER: Speaking of John Kerry, I have some news for you. On Friday, this last Friday night [Oct 28, 2005] , I arranged to meet Senator Kerry at a fundraiser to give him a copy of my book. He told me he now thinks the election was stolen. He said he doesn't believe that he is the person who can go out front on the issue, because of the sour grapes, you know, question. But he said he believes it was stolen. He says he argues about this with his Democratic colleagues on the Hill. He had just had a big fight with Christopher Dodd about it, because he said, you know, ‘There's this stuff about the voting machines; they’re really questionable.’ And Dodd was angry. ‘I don’t want to hear about it,’ you know, ‘I looked into it. There’s nothing there.’

Well, there's plenty there, and let me add one thing: This is not a criminal case, okay? We don't have to prove guilt beyond a shadow of a doubt. This is our election system, right? This is a system based on consent of the governed. If many, many millions of Americans are convinced that they got screwed on Election Day and couldn't vote, or if 3.4 million more Americans claim that they voted than the actual total of voters -- this is what the Census Bureau told us last May – this is grounds alone for serious investigation, and I think Mark [HERTSGAARD] would agree with me here. We have to have serious investigation.

Are Dodd's eyes closed to Election Fraud of 2004, 2006...2008? (There's no more important issue for America to deal with -- not just for democrats but all Americans given international and domestic consequences of recent 'official recorded vote-counts' -- than election fraud and the subversion of Democracy: e-voting machines, caging, USAttorneygate, etc.)

If so, he's seriously 'out-of-touch'...or obscurantist...or (hopefully not) compromised. Which ever way, he's "NO WAY!" for me at the moment.

(And, yes, for HAVA 2002, I heard his claim of being motivated to help his near-blind (cataracts at birth) sister be able to vote at her precinct with the dignity of privacy...But what about other voters with that 'dignity' but whose votes are being stolen blind?!)

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