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THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW - December 20, 2007
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Candidates Collect Endorsements in Final Days in Iowa
By Katharine Q. Seelye
The New York Times
Des Moines - The Democratic presidential candidates pressed
across Iowa on Sunday as they began to make their closing
arguments to voters before the holidays, with Senator
Hillary Rodham Clinton clearly buoyed by her endorsement
Sunday from The Des Moines Register.
The Republicans, who are also locked in a competitive
battle with just 18 days before the Jan. 3 caucus, made
most of their appearances on the talk shows. Senator John
McCain of Arizona, meanwhile, after winning the endorse-
ments of The Des Moines Register and The Boston Globe,
had plans to announce an unexpected one Monday: Senator
Joseph I. Lieberman, the Connecticut independent who was
the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000.
The two are old friends and have co-sponsored numerous
pieces of legislation. They also share support for the
Iraq war, which has put Mr. Lieberman out of step with
his own party and with Democratic voters.
Mr. Lieberman's backing, first reported by The Weekly
Standard, may help Mr. McCain among some independents
in New Hampshire, but it may be less helpful among the
conservatives and evangelicals who increasingly dominate
the Republican primary.
On the Democratic side, Mrs. Clinton picked up another
vote of confidence Sunday, from former Senator Bob Kerrey
of neighboring Nebraska, as she began a barnstorming tour
in which she or her allies planned to visit all of Iowa's
99 counties over five days. Bill Clinton is scheduled to
visit Iowa on Tuesday with Magic Johnson.
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Before lifting off in a helicopter from Council Bluffs,
Mrs. Clinton, appearing re-energized, used new language
to criticize the health care plan offered by her chief
rival, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.
In a hushed voice, she mentioned some of the women and
men she had met in Iowa who did not have health insurance
or were struggling financially and said she did not want
to leave any of them without health care.
"Who gets to choose who's left out?" she said. "Who should
I leave out? I don't want to leave anybody out. I'm not
running for president to put Band-Aids on this problem.
I'm running for president to solve it."
Meanwhile, Mr. Obama continued on the third day of his bus
tour, moving west across Iowa. He began his day by attend-
ing services at the First Congregational United Church of
Christ in Mason City.
While it is not uncommon for Mr. Obama to attend church
while campaigning, seldom is the stop on his public
schedule. But this time - as his campaign worked to dispel
false rumors spread on the Internet that he was a Muslim
and had ulterior motives for running for president - he
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In brief remarks to the congregation, Mr. Obama talked
about his faith, saying that "Scripture and the words of
God fit into the values I was raised in."
Former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, who stumped
across Iowa this weekend with the actor and singer Kevin
Bacon (who brought his guitar), managed to hold events on
the ground and appear on three talk shows, via satellite.
He has worked the state almost constantly since losing the
2004 election and is locked in a three-way race against
Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama, but his tone has become an
issue.
The Register, which endorsed him in 2004, said this time
that it did not see much of the "positive, optimistic"
campaign he had run before. "His harsh, anticorporate
rhetoric would make it difficult to work with the business
community to forge change," the paper said.
Asked about it on the CBS program "Face the Nation," Mr.
Edwards said that corporate resistance had blocked universal
health care, foiled efforts to address global warming,
resulted in a tax policy for the rich and produced a trade
policy that destroyed jobs.
"I think if we don't have a president, you know, a Teddy
Roosevelt kind of president or a Harry Truman kind of
president who is ready to take those entrenched, well-
financed interests on, it's going to be impossible to bring
about change," Mr. Edwards said. "And it's exactly what I
am going to do as president. I'm going to fight for that
change."
As for the Republicans, two of them - former Gov. Mitt
Romney of Massachusetts and former Senator Fred D. Thompson
of Tennessee - turned their fire on Mike Huckabee, who has
shot up in the polls. Mr. Romney demanded on "Meet the
Press" on NBC that Mr. Huckabee, the former Arkansas
governor, apologize to President Bush for what Mr. Huckabee
described last week in an article in Foreign Affairs as
"the Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality" at
home and abroad.
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Mr. Thompson, on "Face the Nation," said of Mr. Huckabee,
"Liberal is the only word that comes to mind."
In response, Mr. Huckabee said on CNN that he had not said
the president was arrogant. "I have said that the policies
have been arrogant," he said.
In his interview, Mr. Romney said he had been endorsed by
the National Rifle Association in 2002 when he ran for
governor of Massachusetts. He had been given a grade of B
by the group, but his Democratic opponent got an A and the
group did not endorse anyone in that race.
In addition, he was grilled about his Mormon faith. Asked
whether he had struggled with the fact that his church
excluded blacks from its priesthood until 1978, Mr. Romney
said that he supported civil rights and remembered hearing
about the change in policy on the radio while he was
driving. "I pulled over, and literally wept," he said.
"Even to this day it's emotional," he said, tearing up.
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Jeff Zeleny and Patrick D. Healy contributed reporting
from Iowa, and Marc Santora from New Hampshire.
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