A really nice story about Dodd [View All]

[jillan]

I like Dodd. It's just kind of unfortunate for him to pick a time to run when we have such a great range of candidates.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/28/us/politics/28dodd.html?ref=politics

Top Tier’ Candidate? Maybe Not, but Dodd Is Still Enjoying the Ride

snips:

“I’m the first candidate who’s spoken in Pahrump,” Mr. Dodd boasted in an interview last week, referring to the small Nevada city he visited recently. “I got a bump out of Pahrump,” he added, shifting into story-telling mode, his deep voice rising. Ah, Pahrump!

“So I was speaking at a firehouse in Pahrump,” Mr. Dodd recalled. “And I looked out this window, and there was this billboard. There are a lot of billboards in Pahrump and there was one that was advertising the Museum of Brothel Art. You wouldn’t see this kind of thing in Fairfield County. It’s the kind of local color you can only get by running for president.”
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Before coming to the Senate in 1981, Mr. Dodd served three terms in the House and did a Peace Corps stint in the Dominican Republic. He has campaigned strenuously for colleagues, served as chairman of the Democratic Party during President Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election and spearheaded such landmark legislation as the Family and Medical Leave Act.

“I’m trying to make the point that experience matters,” Mr. Dodd said in a speech at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester.

Mr. Dodd vows to stay in the race for the duration, for what it is worth.

Strolling around the Nashua fire station, hands crammed in pockets, he was looking slightly bored, or perhaps tired. It was about 10 a.m.; he is not much of a morning guy. He dutifully viewed the fire station’s state-of-the-art exhaust system, the defibrillator machine, the dive suit.

At the far end of the garage is the Hazmat truck, which ferried beer in a previous life, and Mr. Dodd perked up.

“This used to be a beer truck?” he said. “Is there any beer left?”

Everyone laughs, none louder than the senator.