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Gephardt, Lieberman hit bumps on the trail (Glen Johnson, 7/21/2003, Boston Globe)

Both candidates announced last week that they were altering their fund-raising practices -- and in Lieberman's case, his fund-raising staff -- over their money-raising performance during the past three months.

Both candidates had to change their schedules and deliver mea culpas to the NAACP after its president, Kweisi Mfume, chastised them last Monday for planning to skip appearances at the minority group's convention in Miami. And both candidates engaged in a fresh round of backbiting that is on a pace to surpass that which has been occurring between two of their rivals, Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts and Howard Dean, a former governor of Vermont.

Voters who hear Gephardt and Lieberman speak are sometimes not overwhelmed with the emotion that usually accompanies meeting and listening to a political celebrity.

If the rationale of his candidacy is that he's the pro-business, somewhat moderate one, what does it say about Mr. Lieberman that he's having trouble raising money and he kowtowed to the Mau-Mau? Posted by Orrin Judd at July 21, 2003 10:03 AM