Interview: 'I'm Feeling Like Job'

Newsweek, January, 2004 by Howard Fineman

It's rough at the top, or so insurgent turned front runner Howard Dean is finding out. Dean addressed the incoming fire, his latest thoughts on Osama bin Laden and his favorite Biblical passages in a conversation with NEWSWEEK's Howard Fineman last week. Excerpts:

FINEMAN: In this campaign so far, what's been--from your point of view--the most unfair or below-the-belt attack leveled against you?

DEAN: It's not so much that it's an unfair below-the-belt attack or anything like that. It's that what we really ought to be doing is focusing on a positive message. We're not going to beat each other and we're not going to beat George Bush if our only message is negative.

But out there in Iowa in that mailing, didn't you call both Gephardt and Kerry "Bush lite"?...

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