to diss Kerry and talk about the NYTimes article on Bill and Hillary
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_carlson&sid=aSuO8ZE0zTl4
Connecticut's Dodd Is the Ideal Un-Hillary: Margaret Carlson
May 26 (Bloomberg) -- I caught up with Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd, who announced Monday that he's doing everything necessary to ``seek the presidency in 2008,'' early yesterday morning as he was convincing his 4-year-old, Grace, that she had to wash her hair.
I asked how you could run for president with two little children. ``There's never a good time but at this age, Jackie (his wife) and I can bring them along,'' he said. ``It's easier than with teenagers.''
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While many in his party are straining to color themselves red, wishing to be reborn in a border state, Dodd's a traditional Democrat from way north of the Mason-Dixon line and happy about it. ``I'm a Sam Rayburn Democrat -- without prefix, suffix, or apology,'' Dodd said, recalling that former Senator Dale Bumpers forgave him for being a ``a northerner because he had a southern sense of humor.''
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Many of Dodd's accomplishment are with ideological opposites. He joined with Senator Orrin Hatch to get child-care grants passed, with Senator Kit Bond on the Family and Medical Leave Act, with Senator Mitch McConnell on electoral reform after the Florida debacle. Coming from a big insurance state, it was easy for him to join Republicans in limiting class-action law suits.
On the Foreign Relations Committee, he's been an important player in Latin American affairs (he speaks fluent Spanish). And unlike Senator John Kerry, when asked if he would have voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq knowing what he knows now, Dodd gives a resounding ``no.''
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Separate Lives
Hillary would likely sign on to that. Ironically, while her husband's unfaithfulness launched her Senate career, her presidential one would be doomed by a recurrence. A front-page story in Tuesday's New York Times was either Times-speak for ``Bill is up to his old tricks'' or a strategic attempt on the Clintons' part to get the issue out there early. Friends of the pair said all the right things to inoculate them against criticism that they live separate lives. Staff was at the ready with stats on time spent together, including the nugget that while they saw each other only once in February, it was Valentine's Day....
She writes exactly the same irrelevant info (when not simply false) that the NYTimes and the WaPo write about Democrats.
1. How can you run with young children: She cant call Jack Kennedy, but may be she can call John Edwards if she needs a clue. People do it all the time.
2: The Sam Rayburn joke is old.
3: Kerry has said a long time ago that he regrets his vote. (I guess this is the inside Washington media at work).
4: All Democrats have passed bills with Republicans. How is it something important?
In brief, there is nothing in this article who tells us why vote for Dodd rather than Hillary, but she reminds us the NYtimes article (how is it relevant here).
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