Howard Dean is a physician cum politician from the state of Vermont in U.S.A. He is the chairman of Democratic National Committee, which is the central organization of Democratic Party working at the national level. Dean got his medical degree from the Albert Einstein Institute of Medicine in the year 1978 and became a Democrat in the Vermont House of Representatives in the year 1982.

He chose medicine to be his main profession and interfered in State politics on a part time basis. After of Richard A. Snelling, he became the governor of Vermont in the year 1991. He served as a governor from 1991 to 2003. He was the second governor in the history of Vermont who served Vermont for more than 10 years.

From 1994-1995, Dean was the chairman of National Governors Associations. Dean was the main opposition leader in the 2004 Democratic Presidential election nomination. He also opposed Bush administration for invasion on Iraq in the year 2003. But he did not emerge as strong as expected against the Bush administration. He formed the organization called Democracy of America and in Feb 2005 he was elected the chairman of National Democratic Committee. In a way you can say that Dean is a doctor who treats politics.

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Who is Hillary Clinton? Born Hillary Diane Rodham in Chicago, Illinois, on October 26, 1947, this Scorpio is the junior senator for New York and a Democratic candidate in the 2008 presidential election.

Due to her marriage to Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady from 1993 until 2001.

A graduate from Yale Law, she was the first woman partner at Rose Law Firm in Arkansas in 1979. Hillary Clinton was voted one of the most powerful lawyers in the United States.

She has been active in many organizations for children’s well fare. Congress failed to approve her Clinton Health Care Plan in 1994. She has been a part of other organizations such as the Foster Care Independence Act, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program as well as the Adoption and Safe Families Act.

Clinton was not charged with anything in the Whitewater Controversy or any other investigation that took place during her husband’s reign as President of the United States, including the famous Lewinsky Scandal of 1998.

In Senate she was on the side of George Bush and the Iraq War Resolution, now as a presidential candidate, she is opposed to Bush’s administration and the war efforts. Clinton has been quoted saying she did not regret supporting military action in Iraq, but only “the way the president used the authority.”

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Who is Barack Hussein Obama? Obama is the junior US Senator from Illinois, and is currently in the lead for the nomination of the Democratic party for the 2008 election. His opponent is Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Obama’s mother is from America and his father is from Kenya. Barack Obama, however spent his early childhood in Honolulu, Hawaii. His parents sent him to Hawaii to live with his grandparents for the educational opportunities available to him. He also lived in Jakarta, Indonesia for four years.

Barack Obama announced he would be running for president of the United States of America in February of 2007 in Springfield Illinois. Comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln, he said “That is why, in the shadow of the Old State Capitol, where Lincoln once called on a house divided to stand together, where common hopes and common dreams still live, I stand before you today to announce my candidacy for President of the United States of America.“ Obama would be the first African-American in this office, so naturally his campaign emphasizes “a change“.

From the beginning of his campaign, Barack Obama has made it a major point that one of the first things he plans to do if elected is put an end to the war in Iraq. He also has plans to boost energy independence. Another of his priorities is health care.

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