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Democratic Presidential Candidates Gather in Iowa
Aired November 16, 2003 - 07:32 ET
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RENAY SAN MIGUEL, CNN ANCHOR: Now onto to presidential politics, or at least those who are hopeful of becoming president. Some of the Democratic candidates, along with other party luminaries, gathered in Iowa, looking to get a leg up. Candy Crowley has that story.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): There she is, the Democrat's favorite Democrat, the much longed for, most talked about, non-candidate of the presidential season. Two months before the Iowa caucuses, center stage at the state's biggest Democratic bash of the season.
SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), NEW YORK: It begins in Iowa and it ends on Pennsylvania Avenue.
CROWLEY: No, no, not for her, for one of the people actually running for president. Personally, Senator Clinton puts no stock in criticism that the '04 field is weak.
CLINTON: Never forget pundits and polls don't pick presidents, people pick presidents. And that's what's going to happen.
CROWLEY: Having been left some oxygen, the '04 strutted their stuff, by and large the usual stuff with some flourish. Richard Gephardt waxed poetic.
REP. RICHARD GEPHARDT (D), MISSOURI: Like father, like son. Four years and another Bush is done.
(SINGING)
CROWLEY: The Des Moines Gay Men's Choir kicked things off with the national anthem. State party officials figure more than 7,000 Democrats showed up, screaming, banner waving, deeply committed in buying activists who were most appreciative of the anti-Bush lines.
REP. DENNIS KUCINICH (D-OH), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The truth is that this administration lied to the American people.
CROWLEY: Still, they are running against each other, though more accurately, they are now all running against Howard Dean. Nobody mentioned anybody else's name, but really who needed it. John Edwards languishing in the middle tier.
SEN. JOHN EDWARDS (D-NC), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Anger won't change America. Action will. If we are the party of anger in 2004, we will not win.
CROWLEY: The well seasoned, long resumed John Kerry currently running third in Iowa to Howard Dean.
SEN. JOHN KERRY (D), MASSACHUSETTS: Iowa, Iowa, don't just send them a message next January. Send them a president.
CROWLEY: Nor were names needed when Dean played his strong suit, criticizing the president for going to war with Iraq and the lawmakers who let him do it.
HOWARD DEAN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We're there not only because of George W. Bush. We're there because we didn't fight hard enough to keep us out.
CROWLEY: Despite the zingers, everybody agreed that anybody there would be preferable to the man currently in the Oval Office.
Candy Crowley, CNN, Des Moines.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired November 16, 2003 - 07:32 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
RENAY SAN MIGUEL, CNN ANCHOR: Now onto to presidential politics, or at least those who are hopeful of becoming president. Some of the Democratic candidates, along with other party luminaries, gathered in Iowa, looking to get a leg up. Candy Crowley has that story.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): There she is, the Democrat's favorite Democrat, the much longed for, most talked about, non-candidate of the presidential season. Two months before the Iowa caucuses, center stage at the state's biggest Democratic bash of the season.
SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), NEW YORK: It begins in Iowa and it ends on Pennsylvania Avenue.
CROWLEY: No, no, not for her, for one of the people actually running for president. Personally, Senator Clinton puts no stock in criticism that the '04 field is weak.
CLINTON: Never forget pundits and polls don't pick presidents, people pick presidents. And that's what's going to happen.
CROWLEY: Having been left some oxygen, the '04 strutted their stuff, by and large the usual stuff with some flourish. Richard Gephardt waxed poetic.
REP. RICHARD GEPHARDT (D), MISSOURI: Like father, like son. Four years and another Bush is done.
(SINGING)
CROWLEY: The Des Moines Gay Men's Choir kicked things off with the national anthem. State party officials figure more than 7,000 Democrats showed up, screaming, banner waving, deeply committed in buying activists who were most appreciative of the anti-Bush lines.
REP. DENNIS KUCINICH (D-OH), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The truth is that this administration lied to the American people.
CROWLEY: Still, they are running against each other, though more accurately, they are now all running against Howard Dean. Nobody mentioned anybody else's name, but really who needed it. John Edwards languishing in the middle tier.
SEN. JOHN EDWARDS (D-NC), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Anger won't change America. Action will. If we are the party of anger in 2004, we will not win.
CROWLEY: The well seasoned, long resumed John Kerry currently running third in Iowa to Howard Dean.
SEN. JOHN KERRY (D), MASSACHUSETTS: Iowa, Iowa, don't just send them a message next January. Send them a president.
CROWLEY: Nor were names needed when Dean played his strong suit, criticizing the president for going to war with Iraq and the lawmakers who let him do it.
HOWARD DEAN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We're there not only because of George W. Bush. We're there because we didn't fight hard enough to keep us out.
CROWLEY: Despite the zingers, everybody agreed that anybody there would be preferable to the man currently in the Oval Office.
Candy Crowley, CNN, Des Moines.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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