Reply #93: OK , we are making some progress here.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

So you are saying that you accurately quoted this Henderson newspaper from 3/09/94.

And now we will have something verifiable with which to judge your credibility.

Because you are either telling the truth, or you are not.

Only Dean can do both at once.

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"picking a word here, another one there and adding a whole lot of ellipsis" ??

here's from the webpage your fellow traveller dsc referenced:

On the day the charge was made, Stephanopoulos was riding around with Dean for the This Week segment.

And before Dean had any chance to prepare responses in advance, George hit him hard, throwing documents at him while the cameras were rolling.

Unlike the NAFTA bickering, Dean didn’t complain at all (despite this being true “gotcha politics”).

He took the questions in stride and answered forthrightly:

DEAN: Of course I support Medicare. That's ridiculous. I certainly have been very angry at Medicare over their bureaucratic stuff.

They're really difficult bureaucratically to deal with.

(Note: This is backed up in what Gephardt quotes from.

In the 8/3/93 AP story with the ominous title “Liberal Doctor Is Conservative on Health Care Reform,” Dean followed his “worst things” comment with:

“My father was in the hospital last year and he still can't get his bills straightened out because nobody who knows anything will talk to him at Medicare. It's just a pathetic bureaucracy.”)

STEPHANOPOULOS: (Gephardt) also says that in 1995, you specifically supported the 270 billion dollars or so in tax cuts that were called for by Newt Gingrich --

DEAN: I think that's very unlikely.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Here's the document…And it's pretty clear that you said you would accept a seven- to ten-percent cut in the rate of growth of Medicare, which is --

DEAN: Oh, a cutting the rate of growth is much different --

STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, except that the cut in growth rate in 1995 came to 270 billion dollars.

DEAN: I've got to find out…but I fully subscribe to the notion which is to reduce the Medicare growth rate to ten percent or less, I'm sure I said that.

STEPHANOPOULOS: That's what Newt Gingrich was calling for in 1995.

MR. DEAN: Well, then, Newt Gingrich probably also called for a strong America and I believe in that, too.
http://www.liberaloasis.com/archives/091403.htm#091603

So here is Dean again confirming that that was indeed his position - not a creative case of selective editing. Well, I suppose you will accus e me of making this up...