Chris Dodd’s campaign is based on one major issue – that the leadership we will want in our next President is demonstrated by the leadership a candidate shows now on the major issues of the day. The biggest issue is, of course Iraq, and Chris Dodd is fighting to insure a Democratic Congress does not fund the Iraq War without a date certain for ending the war. This fight is attracting notice in Iowa:
Yepsen: 1st-tier Dems’ timidity on Iraq may create opening
Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd is the longest of long-shot candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. But he doesn’t seem too agitated about that. He’s an experienced politician. He knows how the caucus game often breaks late. Because of his 33 years of experience in Congress, he also knows something about U.S. foreign policy and the war in Iraq.
He does get agitated about that, particularly when the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination appear to be in no big hurry to get out. Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama all declined in last week’s debate to say they’d have U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of their first term – in 2013. “I was stunned, literally stunned” to hear them say that, Dodd said in
an interview for last weekend’s Iowa Press program on Iowa Public Television. “It was breathtaking to me that the so-called three leading candidates would not make that commitment. That’s six years from today.”“The one issue that gave us the majority in the House and Senate last year was Iraq. It’s the dominant issue in the country. We’re spending a fortune, $10 billion a month. Reconciliation is no closer today. I think for anybody out there wondering whether or not Democrats get this at all, or not … to stand up and say six years from now, I will not make the commitment that U.S. forces will be out of Iraq, I found breathtaking.”
Chris Dodd is showing leadership now.
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He is showing leadership. I hope he does well in Iowa so he can continue his campaign.
but im pretty fed up with the senate as a whole right now. (for the record, im kinda sick of edwards too, that comment wasnt a veiled edwards compliment)
id like to see dodd challenge the ‘big 3’, cause they look like a hermetically gestated, calculatedly diverse after-school special cast gone horribly awry.
Dodd is looking better and better every day.
American Idol, inevitable, show ponies he will get my vote. He seems to have more gravitas then the pixie I like. At this point I’m open to any viable candidate that seem to have real values and will buck the war drum crowd.
he caught my attention because of the candidates he seems to be the most freaked about the damage done to the constitution. Says his first priority would be restoring it.