{"id":898,"date":"2003-11-13T13:57:08","date_gmt":"2003-11-13T20:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/dick-gephardt\/"},"modified":"2003-11-13T13:57:08","modified_gmt":"2003-11-13T20:57:08","slug":"dick-gephardt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/dick-gephardt\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Gephardt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"For Gephardt, Congress Role Is Both Platform and Hurdle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/11\/13\/politics\/campaigns\/13GEPH.html?th=&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;position=\">For Gephardt, Congress Role Is Both Platform and Hurdle<\/a> By ROBIN TONER, NYTimes<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;My name is Dick Gephardt, I&#8217;m going to win the Democratic nomination, and I&#8217;m going to beat George Bush in November,&#8221; he says. <\/p>\n<p>&#8221;<b><i>Everything<\/i> we care about is vanishing before our eyes.<\/b>&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But Mr. Gephardt, a 62-year-old Missourian, decided to run anyway. To him the question was different: How could he not? He has worked under five presidents, &#8220;and I just know I can do this,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I know I can do it better than the present occupant.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My philosophy is different from W&#8217;s,&#8221; he says in his basic stump speech. &#8220;We&#8217;re all interconnected, dependent on one another. I would not have accomplished what I&#8217;ve accomplished without a lot of help.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve watched him up close and he&#8217;s not a bad person, he&#8217;s a fine person, but <b>he&#8217;s not doing the job<\/b>,&#8221; Mr. Gephardt said. &#8220;In some ways, he&#8217;s inexperienced. In other ways, he&#8217;s unknowledgeable. In other ways, he&#8217;s rigid and unwilling to change policies that I think just obviously need to be changed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the first Democratic debate (here in Albuquerque), I appreciated Dick Gephardt saying the &#8216;Bush is a miserable failure.&#8217; mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"A Conversation with Rep. Richard Gephardt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/features\/feature.php?wfId=1502615\">NPR : A Conversation with Rep. Richard Gephardt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NPR&#8217;s Michele Norris talks with Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri about the importance of labor unions and the state of his presidential bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Gephardt, Congress Role Is Both Platform and Hurdle By ROBIN TONER, NYTimes &#8221;My name is Dick Gephardt, I&#8217;m going to win the Democratic nomination, and I&#8217;m going to beat George Bush in November,&#8221; he says. &#8221;Everything we care about is vanishing before our eyes.&#8221; &#8230; But Mr. Gephardt, a 62-year-old Missourian, decided to run &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/dick-gephardt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dick Gephardt<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}