For the Deanies

[Ramsey]

This is the cover photo on this week's Philadelphia Weekly paper. Sweet, isn't it??? Sorry, the size of the paper is larger than my scanner. But I thought you'd all enjoy it!

And for anyone in the Philly area, there's a Dean rally Monday August 11 at 6th and Market Street, in front of the Liberty Bell at 4 pm!! Dean will be speaking. Go to www.philly4dean.com for details

[keek]

1. this was an excellent article!!!

http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/cover/

Look over here: A perfectly harmless Dick Gephardt is buckling his chin strap. Let's give him the ball. How about that John Kerry, eh? He's got the hair to be president. You want youth? Try John Edwards. If you squint, he kinda looks Bobby Kennedy. Or what about Joe Lieberman? He's Jewish, you know. That's pretty neat.

The Democratic National Committee trotted out these guys, and to a man, the public's reaction was the same: yawn.

Howard Dean is generating something no Democrat in recent memory has: excitement. Not just partisan cheerleading, but real honest-to-goodness shake-shit-up excitement.

In the last six months he's gone from nobody to the Guy to Beat. It started in February when the Bush administration was beating the war drum to a deafening crescendo, striking fear in the heart of any Democrat who dared withhold support.

Then a largely unknown former governor from a small New England state, Dean stood up before a meeting of the Democratic National Committee and questioned why the Dems on the Hill were cowardly acquiescing to the president's war aims. This, followed by, "I'm Howard Dean, and I'm here to represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party!" The crowd went ballistic. At long last, a Democratic presidential candidate with a pair of balls. Hallelujah!

[w4rma]

2. Great article!

What do you stand for and what are you fighting against?

"I want jobs again, which means you need a president who manages the economy. I want to get the universal health insurance into America that other industrialized countries have. But mostly I want a restoration of our sense of community, that we're all in this together. And what I'm fighting against: this president--what I would call the borrow-and-spend credit card presidency of a radical, a person who squandered our respect around the world, wasted our economic assets and has an agenda that is consistent not with American values, but some narrow-minded conservative agenda that doesn't fit America."
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/cover/

[Ramsey]

3. Thanks for the article links

I picked up the paper at the vets this morning. Thought the phot and the article were great!!