Dean Has Successful Record of Executive Experience

[Rose Siding]

Dr. Dean, Don't Forget Your CEO Job
Iowa's No. 3 is taking heat from Kerry about a lack of foreign policy and military experience. But when was Kerry ever a chief exec?

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But besides a blunt candidate with a take-no-prisoners message and innovative strategies, the Dean Machine still has something to offer that rival campaigns don't: Of all the Democratic contenders, Dean is the only one with experience as a chief executive. In the past seven Presidential elections, the lone candidate to be elected or reelected who didn't previously serve as a governor was George H.W. Bush.

EMPTY RECORD. Savoring his victory in the Iowa Caucuses, Kerry predicted that President George W. Bush would run on his national security record, and the Massachusetts senator pointedly said the Democratic nomineee needed to be able to go toe-to-toe with Bush on the ability to keep America safe. Besides an advertisement for himself and his unmatched war record, that was a dig at Dean, whom Kerry has repeatedly criticized for a lack of foreign policy experience and empty record of military service.

Yet neither Kerry nor second-place Iowa finisher Smilin' John Edwards nor Joe Lieberman nor Al Sharpton (has he had any job?) has ever been a CEO, whether public or private. Clark has been in charge of soldiers and strategy, but when he got too big for his fatigues as NATO commander in Kosovo, he got busted back to his civvies.

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2004/nf20040120_7535_db009.htm

[NewYorkerfromMass]

1. He's head of his campaign and fired people already

and borrowed money to keep it going and he's been pretty successful so far.
But before that he was Lt. Governor of Massachusetts (state several times bigger than Vermont) and a county prosecutor and commander of a swift boat in a war zone where he executed many missions and performed heroic action.

[Hawkeye-X]

3. loaned himself 6.7

million to keep his campaign going. He'll be dead by SC.

Hawkeye-X

[demnan]

2. I think Dean's biggest strong point is health care in VT

he should be stressing that with every breath he takes in.