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[karynnj]

132. The Washington post is wrong

I watched the debates and assume many others did too. I suspect that it might be a typo and they should have said 2000.

The fact is that there were 16 debates in 2004 and many were before Iowa. I remember them. I remember in one pre Iowa debate, Edwards twisting a Dean comment that we had to compete everywhere including winning some people with Confederate flags on their license plates. I remember the last debate before Iowa, where Dean reacting to the normal piling on the front runner, declared that he did not want to be a pin cushion. I remember Sharpton's humor - and the fact that he went after Dean for not having a single black in any of his VT administrations (ignoring that VT is about 1% black). I remember Kerry's excellent answers on many questions and his good humor - even when attacked. I remember Kerry "defending" Edwards when a moderator questioned why he did not serve by saying that he was in diapers in the Vietnam era. (Then apologizing a day later when Edwards was offended because he was a child, not a baby.) I remember a few Clark gaffes in the debates that he was in.