A really nice story about Dodd

[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.”
....

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.

[DemDogs]

1. Probably a case of nice guys

finishing last. Dodd is a nice guy.

[Captain Hilts]

2. I've always liked him and will send him a few bucks. nt

[sandnsea]

3. Nice story

Chris Dodd in Pahrump. Talk about a fish out of water, that's a funny image. I wish he'd get some traction, he's a good example of a life of service.

[jillan]

4. I am on FMLA right now

so I should probably be giving him more support as a thank you.

[Peace Patriot]

5. Christopher Dodd colluded with the two biggest crooks in the Anthrax Congress--

Tom Delay and Bob Ney--to engineer the "Help America Vote For Bush Act" of 2002, by which electronic voting, run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations, was fast-tracked across the country with virtually no audit/recount controls, with secret industry "testing" of the machines, with lavish lobbying and with $3.9 billion in boondoggle funding to corrupt election officials from one end of the country to the other.

Major. Snake. In. The. Grass.

[Byronic]

6. Dodd's a good man

Seems he is getting swamped by this cycle's batch of high profile candidates. He is starting to look a little like this year's Bob Graham: good man, bags of experience, solid credentials, would make a superb president, but there isn't an awful lot of oxygen left in the room.

Hope he gains a bit of traction though.

His voice deserves to be heard.

[nuxvomica]

7. The comments about not being a morning person and beer...

Reminded me of SPY Magazines coverage of him in the 90s. They reported that he was competing with Carl Bernstein and some other guy to be the top nightclubber of the time. I think he's settled down more since.

[JI7]

8. i'm not a morning person either

so i can understand.

Dodd is a great guy and Connecticut has one guy they can be proud of at least. i hope he does get more support and recognition which would allow him to be more effective in the Senate.