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Kerry wins Maine,
criticizes president
I he front-runner focuses
on attacking Bush and his
motives for the Iraq war
By Jeff Zeleny and Rick Pearson
Chicago Tribune (KRT)
RICHMOND, Va. — Sen. John Ker
ry of Massachusetts, who won the
Maine caucuses Sunday to bolster his
Democratic front-runner status, ac
cused President Bush of "telling the
American people stories" when first
explaining why the U.S. should go to
war with Iraq.
The Democratic presidential race
seemed to pause, at least for an
hour, as candidates and party lead
ers watched Bush submit to a rare,
televised interview from the Oval
Office. The hourlong broadcast
Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press,"
Bush's first since taking office, was
yet another sign that Republicans
are poised to fully engage in the
2004 campaign.
"Now, the president is giving us a
new reason for sending people to
war," said Kerry, whose own candi
dacy has been complicated by his
support for the Iraq war resolution
in Congress. "The problem is not
just that he is changing his story
now. It is that he appears he was
telling the American people stories
in 2002."
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark also
criticized Bush, telling CNN, "To
me, the problem is less about the in
telligence community and more
about how the president made his
decision to take us into this war in
Iraq. We still don't know why we
went to war in Iraq."
Meanwhile, Maine became the
12th state to weigh in on the presi
dential race. With 40 percent of
precincts reporting, Kerry was on the
verge of claiming his 10th victory.
Kerry had 46 percent, Former Ver
mont Gov. Howard Dean 26 percent
and Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio
13 percent. Sen. John Edwards of
North Carolina and Clark, who had
focused on other states, had 9 per
cent and 4 percent.
Dean was the only candidate to
campaign in Maine as Democrats pre
pared to vote. Prior to a campaign
swing across the state on Sunday,
Dean said in a television interview
that despite his winless record so far,
he was remaining in the race because
"I don't think Democrats are ready to
choose just yet."
"I think it's a mistake to choose
somebody that most people in this
country don't know, * Dean said from
Bangor, Maine, in an interview on
CBS' "Face the Nation."
"To me, that with 15 percent of
the delegates selected, that is not ex
actly a mandate to choose anybody
for president."
Edwards and Clark, campaigning
aggressively for Tuesday's Virginia and
Tennessee primaries, also pledged to
stay in the race through at least the
March 2 "Super Tuesday" primaries in
California, New York and a string of
other states.
"I view this very much as a long
term process," Edwards told Fox
News, "and we're in this for the
long term."
On CNN, Clark said: "We've got a
lot of support across this county. We
do expect to go on."
Still, campaign strategists concede
that Kerry's drive to the nomination
will be difficult to block. He collected
another endorsement Sunday, from
Gov. Mark Warner of Virginia, and
started to practically ignore his rivals
as he campaigned.
Arriving at a late-aftemoon rally in
Chesapeake, Va., Kerry aimed his criti
cism solely at the Bush administra
tion, leaving the impression that the
nomination is all but certain.
Never before in the 2004 campaign
have Democrats felt as though their
criticisms of Bush were being heard as
loudly as in recent days.
A Newsweek poll indicated that
48 percent of Americans approve of
the president's performance, his
lowest mark in three years. Of those
responding to the survey, 50 percent
said they did not want to see Bush
win re-election, compared to 45 per
cent who do.
(c) 2004, Chicago Tribune. Distributed
by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information
Services. Pearson reported from Bangor,
Maine. Chicago Tribune correspondent
Kirsten Schamberg in Nashville, Tenn.,
contributed to this report
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