Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., tried to distinguish himself from the Democratic field by touting his commitment to education during last night’s forum hosted by Tavis Smiley at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
“There’s nothing that will be a higher priority for me as the president of the United States than to see to it that America’s children from the earliest days of their arrival, certainly through the upper education branches of our educational system, have the equal opportunity,” Dodd said in the debate.
Dodd also tried to set himself apart by criticizing his fellow Democrats’ usage of the online video sharing site YouTube.
“They say they talk about haircuts instead of troop cuts, sound choices instead of energy choices, Paris instead of Baghdad because they say that’s what you want to talk about,” Dodd explains in his video spot.
Instead of using his YouTube time for gimmicks, Dodd proposed a challenge to his supporters. He called for viewers to champion his new bill for troop withdrawal, the Dodd Amendment to Defense Authorization bill, which would remove military personnel from Iraq within 30 days from the time of passage.
In his video, Dodd invites viewers to record conversations with their senators and congressmen asking them to support his amendment and then post the video on YouTube. Dodd subsequently promises to link his campaign’s Web site to the citizen-produced videos.
When the Dodd campaign returns to Iowa next week, they will be met by Paul Simon, half of the former folk rock duo Simon and Garfunkel, the Associated Press reported. According to the article, Dodd and Simon are longtime friends.
Simon will join Dodd for a two day bus tour across the state, hoping to cure the troubled waters of Dodd’s low Iowa polling numbers.
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