Great New Article in AlterNet

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about the attacks on Dean

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17470

If only the democrats would remember Ronald Regan's 11th Commandment.
I think it was the only sensible thing he said.

"Do shall not talk ill of your fellow republicans."

All we are doing is providing sound bites for the George the Idiot to use in his ads against the eventual nominee.

[Fleshdancer]

1. You beat me to it!

I just finished reading it...great article. Here's the attack that suprised me:

The Democratic establishment attacked him even more fiercely in September, when he had the temerity to call on the United States to take a more "even-handed role" as the chief mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His comments prompted House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and dozens of other top Congressional Democrats to write an open letter criticizing Dean for his statements. As Stephen Zunes wrote in a recent AlterNet article, "To have virtually the entire Democratic House leadership openly criticize a policy statement made by their own frontrunner appears unprecedented."

[NNN0LHI]

2. Was Regan a Dem or a Repig when he said that if you know?

I have searched Google for the quote you provided and I can't find nothing about it. Thanks in advance.

Don

[NNN0LHI]

3. Here is another great article from Slate

http://slate.msn.com/id/2093303/

Expensive Fun
Howard Dean needs to grow up.

By William Saletan
Posted Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2003, at 9:52 AM PT

"We're going to have a little fun at the president's expense."

That's what Howard Dean often says with a smile as he tears into President Bush. It's one of Dean's favorite themes. The van he campaigned in last summer bore the license plate "McFun." Now Dean is having fun again, this time at the expense of his own party.

The latest fun started on Dec. 18. In a speech that day, Dean said, "While Bill Clinton said that the era of big government is over, I believe we must enter a new era for the Democratic Party—not one where we join Republicans and aim simply to limit the damage they inflict on working families." Was Dean belittling Clinton? Dean's aides said no. But on Dec. 22, Dean was at it again. He told an audience that to win the White House, he would need support from all Democrats, "even the Democratic Leadership Council, which is sort of the Republican part of the Democratic Party … the Republican wing of the Democratic Party. We're going to need them too."

Republican wing? The Democratic Leadership Council is the organization Bill Clinton co-founded in 1985 to represent moderate and conservative Democrats. Clinton called this constituency "us." Dean calls it "them."

When Dean was asked the next day about his jab at the DLC, he explained, "I was having a little fun at their expense. They've had eight months of fun at my expense. I figured I owed them a day of fun at their expense."

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