The American Spectator

Washington Prowler

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p> GREAT TIMING br> Another Democrat grasping at just about anything is Rep. Dick Gephardt . While polling numbers in Iowa reflect that he remains the leading candidate there, just about everywhere else he's tanking. Which may be why he showed up in California on Tuesday for a speech at the San Francisco Bar Association, where he gave a scathing anti-Bush and anti-Iraq war speech to an enthusiastic audience. He especially decried Bush's foreign policy "machismo." /p>

"Unfortunately, while he was making that speech we were hearing that Hussein's kids were dead, or maybe had been arrested," said a lawyer attending the speech. "But he never mentioned that."

Gephardt finds himself running far behind front-runners Howie Dean and John Kerry, and even Joe Lieberman. Lieberman must be breathing a sigh of relief after seeing numbers in California that show him running third. Never mind that three months ago he was leading the pack out west.

"We're just glad he's in the top tier," says a Washington-based Lieberman adviser. "We've had so much bad news lately, anything like this is welcome."

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Foreign Policy, Law, Iraq