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Voter Alert 2004: Democratic Presidential Candidates Going at It
Aired September 10, 2003 - 06:08 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now a voter alert for you. The second debate among the top Democratic presidential candidates mirrored the first in attacks on President Bush, but it did have one thing the first lacked.
CNN's Candy Crowley reports from Baltimore.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): No mortal wounds, but they're beginning to go at it. Lieberman after Dean for suggesting the U.S. policy in the Middle East should be more even-handed.
HOWARD DEAN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It doesn't help, Joe, to demagogue this issue.
SEN. JOE LIEBERMAN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I will simply say that Howard Dean's statements break a 50-year record in which presidents -- Republican and Democrat -- members of Congress of both parties have supported our relationship with Israel.
CROWLEY: Kucinich after Gephardt for supporting the war.
REP. DENNIS KUCINICH (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Dick, I just want to say that when you were standing there in the Rose Garden with the president and you were giving him advice, I wish that you would have told him no.
CROWLEY: Sharpton after Democrats for taking the black vote for granted.
REV. AL SHARPTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: If we take you to the party, you're going home with us or we're not taking you to the party.
CROWLEY: Sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus, the debate was a chance to make a first run at a critical constituency. Howard Dean with mostly white support and from mostly white Vermont was ready.
DEAN: Well, if the percent of minorities that's in your state has anything to do with how you can connect with African-American voters, then Trent Lott would be Martin Luther King.
CROWLEY: Joe Lieberman was the most aggressive, differing with the bulk of the pack in his willingness to send more U.S. troops to Iraq. But mostly this was a gentlemen's/gentlelady debate, except when it came to the president.
SEN. JOHN EDWARDS (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: This president has actually dismantled -- well, he's in the process of dismantling the public health system.
SEN. JOHN KERRY (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: This is the biggest say one thing do another administration in all time.
LIEBERMAN: George Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible president in the history of the United States of America.
CROWLEY: And everyone agreed post-war Iraq has been a disaster and worse.
REP. DICK GEPHARDT (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It is an abomination.
CROWLEY: Still, asked if they would approve of the money the president wants for Iraq, only one lawmaker, Kucinich, gave a flat no.
Candy Crowley, CNN, Washington.
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Aired September 10, 2003 - 06:08 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now a voter alert for you. The second debate among the top Democratic presidential candidates mirrored the first in attacks on President Bush, but it did have one thing the first lacked.
CNN's Candy Crowley reports from Baltimore.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): No mortal wounds, but they're beginning to go at it. Lieberman after Dean for suggesting the U.S. policy in the Middle East should be more even-handed.
HOWARD DEAN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It doesn't help, Joe, to demagogue this issue.
SEN. JOE LIEBERMAN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I will simply say that Howard Dean's statements break a 50-year record in which presidents -- Republican and Democrat -- members of Congress of both parties have supported our relationship with Israel.
CROWLEY: Kucinich after Gephardt for supporting the war.
REP. DENNIS KUCINICH (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Dick, I just want to say that when you were standing there in the Rose Garden with the president and you were giving him advice, I wish that you would have told him no.
CROWLEY: Sharpton after Democrats for taking the black vote for granted.
REV. AL SHARPTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: If we take you to the party, you're going home with us or we're not taking you to the party.
CROWLEY: Sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus, the debate was a chance to make a first run at a critical constituency. Howard Dean with mostly white support and from mostly white Vermont was ready.
DEAN: Well, if the percent of minorities that's in your state has anything to do with how you can connect with African-American voters, then Trent Lott would be Martin Luther King.
CROWLEY: Joe Lieberman was the most aggressive, differing with the bulk of the pack in his willingness to send more U.S. troops to Iraq. But mostly this was a gentlemen's/gentlelady debate, except when it came to the president.
SEN. JOHN EDWARDS (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: This president has actually dismantled -- well, he's in the process of dismantling the public health system.
SEN. JOHN KERRY (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: This is the biggest say one thing do another administration in all time.
LIEBERMAN: George Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible president in the history of the United States of America.
CROWLEY: And everyone agreed post-war Iraq has been a disaster and worse.
REP. DICK GEPHARDT (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It is an abomination.
CROWLEY: Still, asked if they would approve of the money the president wants for Iraq, only one lawmaker, Kucinich, gave a flat no.
Candy Crowley, CNN, Washington.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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