Dean, Buchanan call for new approaches

[Mandate My Ass]

Dean, Buchanan call for new approaches

By Sarah Breger
October 20, 2004


With two failed presidential candidates from different parties debating so close to the election, one would expect some degree of animosity or tension between the two.

However, in a sold-out Irvine Auditorium event last night, former Democratic Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and former Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan turned a potentially contentious debate into a friendly discussion.

Dean and Buchanan expressed surprisingly similar views on many prominent issues in the upcoming election.

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"It was the most intellectual discussion I've heard in the campaign, and they have nothing to do with the campaign," College junior Daniel Mims said. "I almost wish these were the presidential candidates."

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"We can be on totally opposite sides of an issue and still be patriotic," Buchanan said.

http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/10/20/417608dba24e2

[WI_DEM]

1. Good

I would love to see this on C-SPAN.

[delete_bush]

2. Too bad that real, substantive discussion

of issues such as this has been replaced by the crappy entertainment that the majority of our citizenry consider debate.

[Shadow30]

3. I know its sad....

...that so many just want it all wrapped into a neat little package,the soundbites and slogans.