Posted on 01/13/2004 8:04:27 AM PST by Nonstatist
BRLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 12 — Eddie Kasperowicz, 74 and retired from the Seabrook, N.H., auto plant that Howard Dean was touring the other day, had a question unrelated to his union's hot-button issues of trade and health care. "When," he wondered, "will America have a chance to meet your bride?"
No time soon, Dr. Dean told him, "unless you get sick in Shelburne, Vt., in which case she'll probably see you."
In 23 years of marriage, 18 of which Dr. Dean has spent running for, or serving in, office, his wife, Judith Steinberg Dean, has developed an unusual role for the political spouse: invisible.
During Dr. Dean's two years of relentless campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, Dr. Steinberg has stood by her husband's side at a political event exactly once, at his official announcement speech here in June. A country doctor who still makes the occasional house call and attends PTA meetings, Dr. Steinberg has given about a dozen interviews — none televised — two fund-raising letters and a cameo on a half-hour advertisement.
She has never been to Iowa.
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It appears that way with me. All's fair in politics; she can do what she likes, but if Dean is proposing "solutions" to family problems, cant we look at his own family for information on what "informs" him? If he was a bachelor, wouldnt that be relevant? And if him and his wife live separate lives, wouldnt that also be relevant? It always has been in the past.
Exactly. So her excuse that she's too busy to campaign seems "incomplete" to me. If he wins her career will likely be aborted, unless of course she is really "against" his running, in which case this is interesting news indeed . A split forthcoming? In any event, its all relevant; politicians dont live in test tubes, and what they do and how they live outside the office is relevant to how they approach their duties..
She can say whatever she wants. But to think that round the clock, just feet away SS protection isn't going to have a negative impact on her ability to practice medicine is to be wishing for the impossible.
Daughter's at Yale. Son's probably doing community service for the country club incident.
One has to wonder why he bothered getting an M.D. if his plan was to be a politician. Why take a competitive slot in a med school that someone who actually planned to use the education to help the sick might have been able to fill? Was it just for show? Was he that crass? I heard a remark on the radio where someone complimented his commitment to medicine. Anyone ever see it? What a waste!!
At least Bill Frist is a REAL M.D., donating his time and skills to help the sick and needy.
Can you imagine the uproar from the demo base if she decided to practice medicine in DC? Her first instinct might be a nice K Street office, catering to those with health insurance. Meanwhile, she'd be criticized for not offering her services at a free clinic/AIDS clinic in the rundown parts of DC. What a dilemma.
Perhaps she doesn't respect him.
The couple met at Albert Einstein Medical School in the Bronx, doing crosswords in neuroanatomy class ("She got a 99, I got a 35," he said. "34 was passing.")
She followed him to Burlington after he failed to get a residency in New York, ...
"Vermont won't be so bad, Sweetie, you didn't really want a prestigious practice in New York did you?"
He's a Democrat. For the most part they will, unless the kids do something really newsworthy. (And even that will be downplayed, if negative.) At some point, his wife will have to step up though. Even Bill needed Hillary, as transparent as that was.
She didn't when he was Governer and she makes it pretty plain in this article that she doesn't plan to now. How will that play in the press Democrat or not?
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