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Presidential hopeful Dean: Liberal and proud
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| Category | General |
| Media | TV News - CNN |
| News Date | Tuesday, March 4, 2003 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean has a message to the media: Go ahead, call him a liberal.
During the 1988 presidential race between Republican George Bush and Democrat Michael Dukakis, the term liberal was a disparaging moniker. On Tuesday, Dean said there are reasons to wear the label with pride.
"The press is all writing about Dean is the big liberal of the race," the former Vermont governor said at a Washington fund-raiser. "Well, if being a liberal is balancing the budget that's fine with me. And I'll bet it's fine with most Americans. If being a liberal is joining Canada and Britain and France and Germany and Japan and Italy and Israel in having universal health insurance for all of its citizens, then you may call me what you want."
And the 54-year-old physician said if his fight against the Bush administration's education policy that establishes federal standards for local school boards is liberal "then you may call me what you want, I'm proud of it." |
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