Mean, Mean Howard Dean He's Regressive, Not Progressive

[Nicholas_J]

Media pundits have been rattling their cages over Howard Dean's so-called progressive agenda, but how wrong they've been. Dean's back seat criticism of the Bush Administration's case for war should enlighten us to the fact that this ex-Vermont Governor's leadership skills are lacking. Prior to the dubious war on Iraq, Dean exclaimed he supported a multi-lateral invasion, but hardly questioned the disinformation spewed from the White House about Iraq's threat to our national security. And to top it off, Dean may well be a Zionist. His unwavering support for the Sharon regime in Israel calls into question his quest for peace in the Middle East. Dean's alignment with the pro-Sharon lobbying firm, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), is a stark indicator that this Presidential hopeful's vision for the Arab world is glaringly similar to that of team Bush.

Some Democrats have even been comparing Dean to George McGovern--who back in 1972 lost the Presidential race by a landslide to incumbent Richard Nixon. McGovern was a true liberal Democrat, and many claim that his progressive policies cost him the election.

But what progressive policies could cost Dean the 2004 election? Could it be his support for the death penalty? Maybe it will be his praise of the outlandish Welfare Reform program Clinton and Gore mustered through Congress. Or perhaps it'll have to do with his recent remarks that Iraq simply needs more troops for the ongoing occupation. He sounds a lot like some prominent Republican spinsters on that one. Someone should ask Howard Dean if he remembers a little country called Vietnam.

How in the heck did he get labeled a progressive anyway? What radical changes is he proposing? His rhetoric is simplistic, and his populist mantra is reminiscent of Gore in 2000--passionate, but toothless. For example, he'll say he's for 'grassroots democracy,' but won't support campaign finance reform. He will also beat his chest over 'universal healthcare,' but he won't back any 'sweeping reforms.' How can we have universal healthcare without drastically changing our for-profit medical industry? Who is he kidding?

http://www.counterpunch.org/frank08092003.html

[ThorsteinVeblen]

1. When are you going to grow up and stop bashing Dean dude?

[Nicholas_J]

9. NEVER OR

When you stop calling people ASS in their threads. Or DUDE...

I havn;t heard that term used since, well I was an adult already when children were using it,

but then...

[Ediacara]

14. something tells me...

....you're not yet an adult dude.

HEY BTW, have you got anything CONSTRUCTIVE about kerry? Or more troll-like Dean-bashing behavior?

[Name removed]

31. Deleted message

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[genius]

37. You've got to be kidding. Dean people are doing most of the bashing

I've noticed that most supporters of other candidates know how to go out and look up information. They don't swear and demand that the Dean people repost items already posted. In general, I think that the non-Dean people are very respectful in their postings.

[MercutioATC]

45. Oh, PLEASE....

Are you trying to tell me that there aren't a select few here who post more anti-Dean posts than posts that support their chosen candidate?

[blm]

2. But, but, Dean IS a progressive Democrat....

since January 2003.

[caledesi]

3. Howard Dean is a winner! 'nuff said.

[George_Bonanza]

7. Dean's a winner? So is Bush.

No snide remarks about how Bush didn't really win the 2000 election. The fact is is that he became president.

[dorktv]

27. I like that picture!

[DemBones DemBones]

34. George Bush* is a winner*, too, and the research I've done on

Howard Dean suggests that, just like George Bush*, Dean will make a hard right turn if elected. He went far right enough in Vermont that people left the Democratic Party because of him and formed a Preogressive Party.

It would bother me a lot if a Democrat got in the White House and continued governing from the right. I think everyone deserves to know the truth about what Howard Dean did as governor of Vermont, not just what he puts on his resume.

We didn't get the truth about Bush* so we should demand it about all our candidates.

[ThorsteinVeblen]

4. Howard Dean is a moderate

Always has been. Always will be.

[MercutioATC]

46. Dean is a CENTRIST

As much as the DLC tries to make him a liberal, he's a moderate. He's always stated that. What don't you understand about that?

[liberalhistorian]

5. "He's a regressive, not a progressive."

Hmm, you sure you didn't mean Lieberman instead, because that's a perfect description for him, other than repuke-lite!

[George_Bonanza]

8. C'mon now

Lieberman's not perfect, and he's a very moderate liberal, but he's a liberal. He has always been good on stuff like the environment. He has just recently blasted Bush on it. Nobody's a regressive in the Democratic 9, that's a hyperbole.

[tsipple]

6. Nicholas_J, Your Posts Are Getting Annoying

In my opinion.

[Nicholas_J]

12. Good

It is my intention to being annoying. So are all of the Dean is Great posts with no content I have to look at every three minutes.

If you want to argue the positive aspects of Deans candidacy without using posts from his mindless, sycophantic Dean for America Website or his Stepford blog, fine.

But since you cant, dont bother me.

[Name removed]

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[Ediacara]

this guy's posts stay

but mine are deleted? Come on....

[acerbic]

24. If you meant my post that you replied to,

don't fret, I bet it'll be gone soon and only the rightwing/extreme leftwing slander against Democrats will remain...

[dsc]

35. I am virtually certain

he means Nick.

[Ediacara]

41. I meant N_J's

not yours

[Nicholas_J]

43. Nope

Just as annoying as the Dean who post, "My best friends pet parrot said Howard Dean is Great Today".

Sorry, that Garbage is REALLY annoying.

[VoteClark]

26. Exacty, they are not even addressing the issues

[MercutioATC]

47. Issues? Show me Clark's position on the issues...

...and I don't mean somebody ELSE'S statements with an occasional Clark quote. I mean explanations directly from Clark that state where he stands and how he plans to make his agenda work.

[Kanola]

39. I like Kerry but he is not perfect

He waffles like hell on the Iraq war vote. Plus, his advisers need to advise him to please stop answering questions with "well when Clinton and Gore were in the White House" blah blah. He needs to start answering questions directly when asked, and stop the stories about Vietnam, the Clinton years, etc. My question for him is can he answer direct questions from the American people without sounding so much like a inside the beltway politician?

I think Kerry is a likeable candidate, but he drives me crazy with his answer first Clinton history lessons than answering any questions directly from voters.

[bluedeminredstate]

10. I'm neutral on Howard Dean

but c'mon... this is the third thread you've started on Dean in the last hour or so that depicts him as a big ole meanie - jailing moms, etc.
If you're trying to convince DU Dean fans that he's really an unexposed raging asshole, fooling the masses, you're going about it the wrong way.

If you really hate him so much vote for someone else in the primary.

:shrug:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

11. Uncle!

I'm convinced!

[killbotfactory]

13. Did Dean piss in this guy's cheerios?

Dean called said that all there was was innuendo during the lead up to war, and said Powell's presentation did not justify a unilateral attack.

Dean is not aligned with AIPAC.

Dean wants to get the UN involved and have less US troops in Iraq, he just doesn't think it would be wise to abandon the place since we have a responsibility to rebuild it, thanks to Bush.

How can we have sweeping healthcare reforms if they'll get killed by special interests?

What the hell is the innuendo of Dean not supporting environmental or workers rights? That's nonsense.

Dean said he would pull out of the WTO if they are unwilling to pass labor or environmental standards.

And of course, anyone who supports Dean is a fool. :eyes:

This is a bunch of tripe.

[Nicholas_J]

15. Nope

he just trickled on my party.

Dean has been know to say one thing before geeting elected, and then do another afterwards...

Just like his statements on Social Security, he has been saying he woould raise the age since 1995, and now apologizes because he realized he may have cost himself 90 percent of the baby boomer vote.

Then magically, one can expenctv Howie to return to his budget slashing self, and do exactly what he has been saying most often if he gets into office.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

16. That's why we love him!

Say this. Do that. Gotta love it.

[killbotfactory]

21. That's why he was elected five times..

Every new term was a surprise!

[acerbic]

22. Well who the heck would like everything to always be boring

...and predictable? :-)

[DemBones DemBones]

32. Who would vote for someone who had a pattern of

not living up to his campaign promises? Are you saying that you LIKE Dean because he waffles and misrepresents?

[acerbic]

38. I dunno... maybe somebody who is so clueless that can't recognize

...several posts chain of sarcasm? :-)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

23. lol

[dorktv]

28. I am in favor of raising the age of social security...

People are living longer now then they were when the age limit was set. Nothing wrong with having people work a little longer...I plan on working until I am 70 at least.

[Mairead]

51. Gee, I planned to do that too-but I can't find work in any of my 5 fields

As the Poet said, the best laid plans....

[MercutioATC]

48. Another misleading post by Nick

"he has been saying he woould raise the age since 1995"

He said that IN 1995, not SINCE 1995. There is a distinct difference. Being 50, I'd bet that you wore diapers IN 1954. Are you telling me that it's the same thing to say that you've worn diapers SINCE 1954?

Using the word "since" implies that raising the SS age is still his position. Gov. Dean has stated clearly that it's not.

[tedoll78]

50. lol..

:nopity:

Your attacks are a dime a dozen. They've lost their effectiveness, if they ever had any to begin with. Do you have anything new in your arsenal? Anything at all?

Actually, you claim to be a kerry supporter. I dare you to put-up a post telling us why you support Kerry. So far, we've pretty much only heard hit-pieces from you. Do you have anything positive?

[Classical_Liberal]

18. Kind of pathetic to post this with a Kerry Icon

being that Kerry voted for it, where as Dean is on the record saying he wouldn't have voted for it if in that position. If counter punch doesn't like Dean for this reason, than clearly Kerry is much worse.

[DrFunkenstein]

42. As A Kerry Supporter, I Wondered About This

I thought the welfare reform law was one of the cheapest panders to the Contract With America gang while pissing on the people that are most vulnerable in society. I like Kerry for many reasons, but I'm not so enamored that I would let this trashy vote pass. I realize that every voting record has blemishes, but this happens to be a big fat pimple in my book. I have less problems with his Patriot Act vote, given its historical context (although I have MUCH bigger problems with the Act itself).

I do understand that it gives him "centrist" credentials, and almost everyone in my family agrees wholeheartedly with the vote, but it still makes me sick.

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[T Roosevelt]

19. How much have you posted about your man Kerry?

Doesn't seem like nearly as much as Dean...what's wrong - can't find enough good things to say about Kerry?

[dsc]

25. Do you believe what these people say

about Gore and Clark? Yes or no. No document dumps. No crap. A straight yes or no answer.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

29. May I be presumptious and stand in for Nic_?

FAR FROM SETTLED
Although former Vermont governor Howard Dean leads Gephardt as the frontrunner in the latest Iowa opinion poll, political veterans here say many of the state’s Democrats are far from having settled on a candidate.
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, North Carolina Sen. John Edwards or Florida Sen. Bob Graham could grow as threats to Dean and Gephardt.
Dean has made himself the favorite in Iowa, by the force of his personality and by the amount of time he has lavished on the state — spending 62 days here so far, more than any of his rivals.
“That’s why the early polls show Dean doing well — because people know who is and they’ve heard him,” said Rob Tully, the former head of the Iowa Democratic Party and co-chairman of the Edwards campaign in the state. Tully added that 75 percent of those polled in the summer change their minds by the time the caucuses take place in January. “I think that’s absolutely true,” said David Barnhart, the western Iowa regional director for Kerry’s campaign. “Most everyone we talked to is very undecided. And the people that have decided, it’s soft support.”A contender can’t close the sale merely by running television ads on the 6 p.m. news, although Edwards is now doing that in the Des Moines media market.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/950661.asp?0sl=-23#BODY Perhaps Dean being ahead in Iowa SO early is a GOOD thing for everyone else Vermont dropped from being the 2nd best place in the nation to raise a child to 10th.Vermont (VT) 10th 1998 2nd 19972nd 19964th 1995
http://www.sover.net/~auc/beststat.htm BIG drop in 4 yearsAugust 7, 2003 -- SURPRISE! Democratic 2004 front-runner Howard Dean is starting to sound like Bill Clinton in a very un-good way: playing word games and waltzing with the truth.
Which doesn't quite suit his claim that his honesty sets him apart from rivals. Dean's Democratic foes have privately grumped about this for months, but it came into high relief when he got challenged at yesterday's AFL-CIO debate on whether he'd ever backed raising the retirement age to 68 or 70 - a big no-no for a union crowd.
"I have never favored Social Security at age of 70, nor do I favor one of 68," Dean insisted. The problem is, just six weeks ago, Dean told NBC, "I would also entertain taking the retirement age up to 68." So Dean wasn't telling the truth to the unionists, unless you split hairs about the meaning of the word "favor." Now that Dean is the front-runner, he can expect to be held to a higher standard of truthfulness. http://nypost.com/commentary/2642.htm I know its from the Post, but sometimes even these guys can descern the obvious.The former Vermont governor has a slick and informative Weblog, but if you hope to glean some insight about the man, you might be better off shaking hands with him in person.Anyone who has visited a magazine newsrack in America this week knows the mug of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. The centrist-turned-populist candidate for U.S. president had pulled off the triple threat in campaign PR: Dean is featured on the cover of Time, Newsweek and above the banner on U.S. News this week. If you wanted to read every recent media piece on Dean, you might as well put away anything left on your summer reading list. A Google News search for "Howard Dean" brings up an eye-popping 4,340 stories.Let me save you some time. A recurrent theme is that Dean's staff has unleashed the power of the Internet, raising millions of dollars through online drives, organizing real-world meetings of thousands of supporters through MeetUp.com, and keeping everyone updated through the "official blog." But wait, there's more. There's a photo gallery, a video repository called Dean TV, and even a wireless news update service. Not too shabby for a guy who admitted to CNN that "I kind of missed the Internet boom." http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1060119435.phpThe former Vermont governor has a slick and informative Weblog, but if you hope to glean some insight about the man, you might be better off shaking hands with him in person.Anyone who has visited a magazine newsrack in America this week knows the mug of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. The centrist-turned-populist candidate for U.S. president had pulled off the triple threat in campaign PR: Dean is featured on the cover of Time, Newsweek and above the banner on U.S. News this week. If you wanted to read every recent media piece on Dean, you might as well put away anything left on your summer reading list. A Google News search for "Howard Dean" brings up an eye-popping 4,340 stories.
Let me save you some time. A recurrent theme is that Dean's staff has unleashed the power of the Internet, raising millions of dollars through online drives, organizing real-world meetings of thousands of supporters through MeetUp.com, and keeping everyone updated through the "official blog." But wait, there's more. There's a photo gallery, a video repository called Dean TV, and even a wireless news update service. Not too shabby for a guy who admitted to CNN that "I kind of missed the Internet boom." http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1060119435.phpThe former Vermont governor has a slick and informative Weblog, but if you hope to glean some insight about the man, you might be better off shaking hands with him in person.Anyone who has visited a magazine newsrack in America this week knows the mug of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. The centrist-turned-populist candidate for U.S. president had pulled off the triple threat in campaign PR: Dean is featured on the cover of Time, Newsweek and above the banner on U.S. News this week. If you wanted to read every recent media piece on Dean, you might as well put away anything left on your summer reading list. A Google News search for "Howard Dean" brings up an eye-popping 4,340 stories.Let me save you some time. A recurrent theme is that Dean's staff has unleashed the power of the Internet, raising millions of dollars through online drives, organizing real-world meetings of thousands of supporters through MeetUp.com, and keeping everyone updated through the "official blog." But wait, there's more. There's a photo gallery, a video repository called Dean TV, and even a wireless news update service. Not too shabby for a guy who admitted to CNN that "I kind of missed the Internet boom.http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1060119435.php I doubt I could name the senators on 3/4 of the states. MOST people do not know who the senatrors of states outside of their own regions are, unless they are reminded at election times. SORRY, this one just wont spin the way you want.DSean was campaigning in Iowa on Vermont time. He was doing so during his last six months as governor and WOULDNT give his schedule out.
Dean has been in Ioww campaigning more times than ALL OF THE OTHER CANDIDATES put together.Now the wisdom of the other candidates is becoming very apparant to me.Dean's message will be old news, when the other candidates start heavily campaigning after labor day, and the fact that 75 percent of all Iowans will switch their choiice VERY, VERY likely to hurt Dean rather than help him.I doubt I could name the senators on 3/4 of the states. MOST people do not know who the senatrors of states outside of their own regions are, unless they are reminded at election times. SORRY, this one just wont spin the way you want.DSean was campaigning in Iowa on Vermont time. He was doing so during his last six months as governor and WOULDNT give his schedule out.
Dean has been in Ioww campaigning more times than ALL OF THE OTHER CANDIDATES put together.Now the wisdom of the other candidates is becoming very apparant to me.Dean's message will be old news, when the other candidates start heavily campaigning after labor day, and the fact that 75 percent of all Iowans will switch their choiice VERY, VERY likely to hurt Dean rather than help him.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

30. Did I mention...

FAR FROM SETTLED
Although former Vermont governor Howard Dean leads Gephardt as the frontrunner in the latest Iowa opinion poll, political veterans here say many of the state’s Democrats are far from having settled on a candidate.
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, North Carolina Sen. John Edwards or Florida Sen. Bob Graham could grow as threats to Dean and Gephardt.
Dean has made himself the favorite in Iowa, by the force of his personality and by the amount of time he has lavished on the state — spending 62 days here so far, more than any of his rivals.
“That’s why the early polls show Dean doing well — because people know who is and they’ve heard him,” said Rob Tully, the former head of the Iowa Democratic Party and co-chairman of the Edwards campaign in the state. Tully added that 75 percent of those polled in the summer change their minds by the time the caucuses take place in January. “I think that’s absolutely true,” said David Barnhart, the western Iowa regional director for Kerry’s campaign. “Most everyone we talked to is very undecided. And the people that have decided, it’s soft support.”A contender can’t close the sale merely by running television ads on the 6 p.m. news, although Edwards is now doing that in the Des Moines media market.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/950661.asp?0sl=-23#BODY Perhaps Dean being ahead in Iowa SO early is a GOOD thing for everyone else Vermont dropped from being the 2nd best place in the nation to raise a child to 10th.Vermont (VT) 10th 1998 2nd 19972nd 19964th 1995
http://www.sover.net/~auc/beststat.htm BIG drop in 4 yearsAugust 7, 2003 -- SURPRISE! Democratic 2004 front-runner Howard Dean is starting to sound like Bill Clinton in a very un-good way: playing word games and waltzing with the truth.
Which doesn't quite suit his claim that his honesty sets him apart from rivals. Dean's Democratic foes have privately grumped about this for months, but it came into high relief when he got challenged at yesterday's AFL-CIO debate on whether he'd ever backed raising the retirement age to 68 or 70 - a big no-no for a union crowd.
"I have never favored Social Security at age of 70, nor do I favor one of 68," Dean insisted. The problem is, just six weeks ago, Dean told NBC, "I would also entertain taking the retirement age up to 68." So Dean wasn't telling the truth to the unionists, unless you split hairs about the meaning of the word "favor." Now that Dean is the front-runner, he can expect to be held to a higher standard of truthfulness. http://nypost.com/commentary/2642.htm I know its from the Post, but sometimes even these guys can descern the obvious.The former Vermont governor has a slick and informative Weblog, but if you hope to glean some insight about the man, you might be better off shaking hands with him in person.Anyone who has visited a magazine newsrack in America this week knows the mug of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. The centrist-turned-populist candidate for U.S. president had pulled off the triple threat in campaign PR: Dean is featured on the cover of Time, Newsweek and above the banner on U.S. News this week. If you wanted to read every recent media piece on Dean, you might as well put away anything left on your summer reading list. A Google News search for "Howard Dean" brings up an eye-popping 4,340 stories.Let me save you some time. A recurrent theme is that Dean's staff has unleashed the power of the Internet, raising millions of dollars through online drives, organizing real-world meetings of thousands of supporters through MeetUp.com, and keeping everyone updated through the "official blog." But wait, there's more. There's a photo gallery, a video repository called Dean TV, and even a wireless news update service. Not too shabby for a guy who admitted to CNN that "I kind of missed the Internet boom." http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1060119435.phpThe former Vermont governor has a slick and informative Weblog, but if you hope to glean some insight about the man, you might be better off shaking hands with him in person.Anyone who has visited a magazine newsrack in America this week knows the mug of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. The centrist-turned-populist candidate for U.S. president had pulled off the triple threat in campaign PR: Dean is featured on the cover of Time, Newsweek and above the banner on U.S. News this week. If you wanted to read every recent media piece on Dean, you might as well put away anything left on your summer reading list. A Google News search for "Howard Dean" brings up an eye-popping 4,340 stories.
Let me save you some time. A recurrent theme is that Dean's staff has unleashed the power of the Internet, raising millions of dollars through online drives, organizing real-world meetings of thousands of supporters through MeetUp.com, and keeping everyone updated through the "official blog." But wait, there's more. There's a photo gallery, a video repository called Dean TV, and even a wireless news update service. Not too shabby for a guy who admitted to CNN that "I kind of missed the Internet boom." http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1060119435.phpThe former Vermont governor has a slick and informative Weblog, but if you hope to glean some insight about the man, you might be better off shaking hands with him in person.Anyone who has visited a magazine newsrack in America this week knows the mug of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. The centrist-turned-populist candidate for U.S. president had pulled off the triple threat in campaign PR: Dean is featured on the cover of Time, Newsweek and above the banner on U.S. News this week. If you wanted to read every recent media piece on Dean, you might as well put away anything left on your summer reading list. A Google News search for "Howard Dean" brings up an eye-popping 4,340 stories.Let me save you some time. A recurrent theme is that Dean's staff has unleashed the power of the Internet, raising millions of dollars through online drives, organizing real-world meetings of thousands of supporters through MeetUp.com, and keeping everyone updated through the "official blog." But wait, there's more. There's a photo gallery, a video repository called Dean TV, and even a wireless news update service. Not too shabby for a guy who admitted to CNN that "I kind of missed the Internet boom.http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1060119435.php I doubt I could name the senators on 3/4 of the states. MOST people do not know who the senatrors of states outside of their own regions are, unless they are reminded at election times. SORRY, this one just wont spin the way you want.DSean was campaigning in Iowa on Vermont time. He was doing so during his last six months as governor and WOULDNT give his schedule out.
Dean has been in Ioww campaigning more times than ALL OF THE OTHER CANDIDATES put together.Now the wisdom of the other candidates is becoming very apparant to me.Dean's message will be old news, when the other candidates start heavily campaigning after labor day, and the fact that 75 percent of all Iowans will switch their choiice VERY, VERY likely to hurt Dean rather than help him.I doubt I could name the senators on 3/4 of the states. MOST people do not know who the senatrors of states outside of their own regions are, unless they are reminded at election times. SORRY, this one just wont spin the way you want.DSean was campaigning in Iowa on Vermont time. He was doing so during his last six months as governor and WOULDNT give his schedule out.
Dean has been in Ioww campaigning more times than ALL OF THE OTHER CANDIDATES put together.Now the wisdom of the other candidates is becoming very apparant to me.Dean's message will be old news, when the other candidates start heavily campaigning after labor day, and the fact that 75 percent of all Iowans will switch their choiice VERY, VERY likely to hurt Dean rather than help him.FAR FROM SETTLED
Although former Vermont governor Howard Dean leads Gephardt as the frontrunner in the latest Iowa opinion poll, political veterans here say many of the state’s Democrats are far from having settled on a candidate.
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, North Carolina Sen. John Edwards or Florida Sen. Bob Graham could grow as threats to Dean and Gephardt.
Dean has made himself the favorite in Iowa, by the force of his personality and by the amount of time he has lavished on the state — spending 62 days here so far, more than any of his rivals.
“That’s why the early polls show Dean doing well — because people know who is and they’ve heard him,” said Rob Tully, the former head of the Iowa Democratic Party and co-chairman of the Edwards campaign in the state. Tully added that 75 percent of those polled in the summer change their minds by the time the caucuses take place in January. “I think that’s absolutely true,” said David Barnhart, the western Iowa regional director for Kerry’s campaign. “Most everyone we talked to is very undecided. And the people that have decided, it’s soft support.”A contender can’t close the sale merely by running television ads on the 6 p.m. news, although Edwards is now doing that in the Des Moines media market.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/950661.asp?0sl=-23#BODY Perhaps Dean being ahead in Iowa SO early is a GOOD thing for everyone else Vermont dropped from being the 2nd best place in the nation to raise a child to 10th.Vermont (VT) 10th 1998 2nd 19972nd 19964th 1995
http://www.sover.net/~auc/beststat.htm BIG drop in 4 yearsAugust 7, 2003 -- SURPRISE! Democratic 2004 front-runner Howard Dean is starting to sound like Bill Clinton in a very un-good way: playing word games and waltzing with the truth.
Which doesn't quite suit his claim that his honesty sets him apart from rivals. Dean's Democratic foes have privately grumped about this for months, but it came into high relief when he got challenged at yesterday's AFL-CIO debate on whether he'd ever backed raising the retirement age to 68 or 70 - a big no-no for a union crowd.
"I have never favored Social Security at age of 70, nor do I favor one of 68," Dean insisted. The problem is, just six weeks ago, Dean told NBC, "I would also entertain taking the retirement age up to 68." So Dean wasn't telling the truth to the unionists, unless you split hairs about the meaning of the word "favor." Now that Dean is the front-runner, he can expect to be held to a higher standard of truthfulness. http://nypost.com/commentary/2642.htm I know its from the Post, but sometimes even these guys can descern the obvious.The former Vermont governor has a slick and informative Weblog, but if you hope to glean some insight about the man, you might be better off shaking hands with him in person.Anyone who has visited a magazine newsrack in America this week knows the mug of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. The centrist-turned-populist candidate for U.S. president had pulled off the triple threat in campaign PR: Dean is featured on the cover of Time, Newsweek and above the banner on U.S. News this week. If you wanted to read every recent media piece on Dean, you might as well put away anything left on your summer reading list. A Google News search for "Howard Dean" brings up an eye-popping 4,340 stories.Let me save you some time. A recurrent theme is that Dean's staff has unleashed the power of the Internet, raising millions of dollars through online drives, organizing real-world meetings of thousands of supporters through MeetUp.com, and keeping everyone updated through the "official blog." But wait, there's more. There's a photo gallery, a video repository called Dean TV, and even a wireless news update service. Not too shabby for a guy who admitted to CNN that "I kind of missed the Internet boom." http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1060119435.phpThe former Vermont governor has a slick and informative Weblog, but if you hope to glean some insight about the man, you might be better off shaking hands with him in person.Anyone who has visited a magazine newsrack in America this week knows the mug of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. The centrist-turned-populist candidate for U.S. president had pulled off the triple threat in campaign PR: Dean is featured on the cover of Time, Newsweek and above the banner on U.S. News this week. If you wanted to read every recent media piece on Dean, you might as well put away anything left on your summer reading list. A Google News search for "Howard Dean" brings up an eye-popping 4,340 stories.
Let me save you some time. A recurrent theme is that Dean's staff has unleashed the power of the Internet, raising millions of dollars through online drives, organizing real-world meetings of thousands of supporters through MeetUp.com, and keeping everyone updated through the "official blog." But wait, there's more. There's a photo gallery, a video repository called Dean TV, and even a wireless news update service. Not too shabby for a guy who admitted to CNN that "I kind of missed the Internet boom." http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1060119435.phpThe former Vermont governor has a slick and informative Weblog, but if you hope to glean some insight about the man, you might be better off shaking hands with him in person.Anyone who has visited a magazine newsrack in America this week knows the mug of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. The centrist-turned-populist candidate for U.S. president had pulled off the triple threat in campaign PR: Dean is featured on the cover of Time, Newsweek and above the banner on U.S. News this week. If you wanted to read every recent media piece on Dean, you might as well put away anything left on your summer reading list. A Google News search for "Howard Dean" brings up an eye-popping 4,340 stories.Let me save you some time. A recurrent theme is that Dean's staff has unleashed the power of the Internet, raising millions of dollars through online drives, organizing real-world meetings of thousands of supporters through MeetUp.com, and keeping everyone updated through the "official blog." But wait, there's more. There's a photo gallery, a video repository called Dean TV, and even a wireless news update service. Not too shabby for a guy who admitted to CNN that "I kind of missed the Internet boom.http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1060119435.php I doubt I could name the senators on 3/4 of the states. MOST people do not know who the senatrors of states outside of their own regions are, unless they are reminded at election times. SORRY, this one just wont spin the way you want.DSean was campaigning in Iowa on Vermont time. He was doing so during his last six months as governor and WOULDNT give his schedule out.
Dean has been in Ioww campaigning more times than ALL OF THE OTHER CANDIDATES put together.Now the wisdom of the other candidates is becoming very apparant to me.Dean's message will be old news, when the other candidates start heavily campaigning after labor day, and the fact that 75 percent of all Iowans will switch their choiice VERY, VERY likely to hurt Dean rather than help him.I doubt I could name the senators on 3/4 of the states. MOST people do not know who the senatrors of states outside of their own regions are, unless they are reminded at election times. SORRY, this one just wont spin the way you want.DSean was campaigning in Iowa on Vermont time. He was doing so during his last six months as governor and WOULDNT give his schedule out.
Dean has been in Ioww campaigning more times than ALL OF THE OTHER CANDIDATES put together.Now the wisdom of the other candidates is becoming very apparant to me.Dean's message will be old news, when the other candidates start heavily campaigning after labor day, and the fact that 75 percent of all Iowans will switch their choiice VERY, VERY likely to hurt Dean rather than help him.FAR FROM SETTLED
Although former Vermont governor Howard Dean leads Gephardt as the frontrunner in the latest Iowa opinion poll, political veterans here say many of the state’s Democrats are far from having settled on a candidate.
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, North Carolina Sen. John Edwards or Florida Sen. Bob Graham could grow as threats to Dean and Gephardt.
Dean has made himself the favorite in Iowa, by the force of his personality and by the amount of time he has lavished on the state — spending 62 days here so far, more than any of his rivals.
“That’s why the early polls show Dean doing well — because people know who is and they’ve heard him,” said Rob Tully, the former head of the Iowa Democratic Party and co-chairman of the Edwards campaign in the state. Tully added that 75 percent of those polled in the summer change their minds by the time the caucuses take place in January. “I think that’s absolutely true,” said David Barnhart, the western Iowa regional director for Kerry’s campaign. “Most everyone we talked to is very undecided. And the people that have decided, it’s soft support.”A contender can’t close the sale merely by running television ads on the 6 p.m. news, although Edwards is now doing that in the Des Moines media market.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/950661.asp?0sl=-23#BODY Perhaps Dean being ahead in Iowa SO early is a GOOD thing for everyone else Vermont dropped from being the 2nd best place in the nation to raise a child to 10th.Vermont (VT) 10th 1998 2nd 19972nd 19964th 1995
http://www.sover.net/~auc/beststat.htm BIG drop in 4 yearsAugust 7, 2003 -- SURPRISE! Democratic 2004 front-runner Howard Dean is starting to sound like Bill Clinton in a very un-good way: playing word games and waltzing with the truth.
Which doesn't quite suit his claim that his honesty sets him apart from rivals. Dean's Democratic foes have privately grumped about this for months, but it came into high relief when he got challenged at yesterday's AFL-CIO debate on whether he'd ever backed raising the retirement age to 68 or 70 - a big no-no for a union crowd.
"I have never favored Social Security at age of 70, nor do I favor one of 68," Dean insisted. The problem is, just six weeks ago, Dean told NBC, "I would also entertain taking the retirement age up to 68." So Dean wasn't telling the truth to the unionists, unless you split hairs about the meaning of the word "favor." Now that Dean is the front-runner, he can expect to be held to a higher standard of truthfulness. http://nypost.com/commentary/2642.htm I know its from the Post, but sometimes even these guys can descern the obvious.The former Vermont governor has a slick and informative Weblog, but if you hope to glean some insight about the man, you might be better off shaking hands with him in person.Anyone who has visited a magazine newsrack in America this week knows the mug of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. The centrist-turned-populist candidate for U.S. president had pulled off the triple threat in campaign PR: Dean is featured on the cover of Time, Newsweek and above the banner on U.S. News this week. If you wanted to read every recent media piece on Dean, you might as well put away anything left on your summer reading list. A Google News search for "Howard Dean" brings up an eye-popping 4,340 stories.Let me save you some time. A recurrent theme is that Dean's staff has unleashed the power of the Internet, raising millions of dollars through online drives, organizing real-world meetings of thousands of supporters through MeetUp.com, and keeping everyone updated through the "official blog." But wait, there's more. There's a photo gallery, a video repository called Dean TV, and even a wireless news update service. Not too shabby for a guy who admitted to CNN that "I kind of missed the Internet boom." http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1060119435.phpThe former Vermont governor has a slick and informative Weblog, but if you hope to glean some insight about the man, you might be better off shaking hands with him in person.Anyone who has visited a magazine newsrack in America this week knows the mug of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. The centrist-turned-populist candidate for U.S. president had pulled off the triple threat in campaign PR: Dean is featured on the cover of Time, Newsweek and above the banner on U.S. News this week. If you wanted to read every recent media piece on Dean, you might as well put away anything left on your summer reading list. A Google News search for "Howard Dean" brings up an eye-popping 4,340 stories.
Let me save you some time. A recurrent theme is that Dean's staff has unleashed the power of the Internet, raising millions of dollars through online drives, organizing real-world meetings of thousands of supporters through MeetUp.com, and keeping everyone updated through the "official blog." But wait, there's more. There's a photo gallery, a video repository called Dean TV, and even a wireless news update service. Not too shabby for a guy who admitted to CNN that "I kind of missed the Internet boom." http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1060119435.phpThe former Vermont governor has a slick and informative Weblog, but if you hope to glean some insight about the man, you might be better off shaking hands with him in person.Anyone who has visited a magazine newsrack in America this week knows the mug of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. The centrist-turned-populist candidate for U.S. president had pulled off the triple threat in campaign PR: Dean is featured on the cover of Time, Newsweek and above the banner on U.S. News this week. If you wanted to read every recent media piece on Dean, you might as well put away anything left on your summer reading list. A Google News search for "Howard Dean" brings up an eye-popping 4,340 stories.Let me save you some time. A recurrent theme is that Dean's staff has unleashed the power of the Internet, raising millions of dollars through online drives, organizing real-world meetings of thousands of supporters through MeetUp.com, and keeping everyone updated through the "official blog." But wait, there's more. There's a photo gallery, a video repository called Dean TV, and even a wireless news update service. Not too shabby for a guy who admitted to CNN that "I kind of missed the Internet boom.http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1060119435.php I doubt I could name the senators on 3/4 of the states. MOST people do not know who the senatrors of states outside of their own regions are, unless they are reminded at election times. SORRY, this one just wont spin the way you want.DSean was campaigning in Iowa on Vermont time. He was doing so during his last six months as governor and WOULDNT give his schedule out.
Dean has been in Ioww campaigning more times than ALL OF THE OTHER CANDIDATES put together.Now the wisdom of the other candidates is becoming very apparant to me.Dean's message will be old news, when the other candidates start heavily campaigning after labor day, and the fact that 75 percent of all Iowans will switch their choiice VERY, VERY likely to hurt Dean rather than help him.I doubt I could name the senators on 3/4 of the states. MOST people do not know who the senatrors of states outside of their own regions are, unless they are reminded at election times. SORRY, this one just wont spin the way you want.DSean was campaigning in Iowa on Vermont time. He was doing so during his last six months as governor and WOULDNT give his schedule out.
Dean has been in Ioww campaigning more times than ALL OF THE OTHER CANDIDATES put together.Now the wisdom of the other candidates is becoming very apparant to me.Dean's message will be old news, when the other candidates start heavily campaigning after labor day, and the fact that 75 percent of all Iowans will switch their choiice VERY, VERY likely to hurt Dean rather than help him.FAR FROM SETTLED
Although former Vermont governor Howard Dean leads Gephardt as the frontrunner in the latest Iowa opinion poll, political veterans here say many of the state’s Democrats are far from having settled on a candidate.
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, North Carolina Sen. John Edwards or Florida Sen. Bob Graham could grow as threats to Dean and Gephardt.
Dean has made himself the favorite in Iowa, by the force of his personality and by the amount of time he has lavished on the state — spending 62 days here so far, more than any of his rivals.
“That’s why the early polls show Dean doing well — because people know who is and they’ve heard him,” said Rob Tully, the former head of the Iowa Democratic Party and co-chairman of the Edwards campaign in the state. Tully added that 75 percent of those polled in the summer change their minds by the time the caucuses take place in January. “I think that’s absolutely true,” said David Barnhart, the western Iowa regional director for Kerry’s campaign. “Most everyone we talked to is very undecided. And the people that have decided, it’s soft support.”A contender can’t close the sale merely by running television ads on the 6 p.m. news, although Edwards is now doing that in the Des Moines media market.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/950661.asp?0sl=-23#BODY Perhaps Dean being ahead in Iowa SO early is a GOOD thing for everyone else Vermont dropped from being the 2nd best place in the nation to raise a child to 10th.Vermont (VT) 10th 1998 2nd 19972nd 19964th 1995
http://www.sover.net/~auc/beststat.htm BIG drop in 4 yearsAugust 7, 2003 -- SURPRISE! Democratic 2004 front-runner Howard Dean is starting to sound like Bill Clinton in a very un-good way: playing word games and waltzing with the truth.
Which doesn't quite suit his claim that his honesty sets him apart from rivals. Dean's Democratic foes have privately grumped about this for months, but it came into high relief when he got challenged at yesterday's AFL-CIO debate on whether he'd ever backed raising the retirement age to 68 or 70 - a big no-no for a union crowd.
"I have never favored Social Security at age of 70, nor do I favor one of 68," Dean insisted. The problem is, just six weeks ago, Dean told NBC, "I would also entertain taking the retirement age up to 68." So Dean wasn't telling the truth to the unionists, unless you split hairs about the meaning of the word "favor." Now that Dean is the front-runner, he can expect to be held to a higher standard of truthfulness. http://nypost.com/commentary/2642.htm I know its from the Post, but sometimes even these guys can descern the obvious.The former Vermont governor has a slick and informative Weblog, but if you hope to glean some insight about the man, you might be better off shaking hands with him in person.Anyone who has visited a magazine newsrack in America this week knows the mug of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. The centrist-turned-populist candidate for U.S. president had pulled off the triple threat in campaign PR: Dean is featured on the cover of Time, Newsweek and above the banner on U.S. News this week. If you wanted to read every recent media piece on Dean, you might as well put away anything left on your summer reading list. A Google News search for "Howard Dean" brings up an eye-popping 4,340 stories.Let me save you some time. A recurrent theme is that Dean's staff has unleashed the power of the Internet, raising millions of dollars through online drives, organizing real-world meetings of thousands of supporters through MeetUp.com, and keeping everyone updated through the "official blog." But wait, there's more. There's a photo gallery, a video repository called Dean TV, and even a wireless news update service. Not too shabby for a guy who admitted to CNN that "I kind of missed the Internet boom." http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1060119435.phpThe former Vermont governor has a slick and informative Weblog, but if you hope to glean some insight about the man, you might be better off shaking hands with him in person.Anyone who has visited a magazine newsrack in America this week knows the mug of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. The centrist-turned-populist candidate for U.S. president had pulled off the triple threat in campaign PR: Dean is featured on the cover of Time, Newsweek and above the banner on U.S. News this week. If you wanted to read every recent media piece on Dean, you might as well put away anything left on your summer reading list. A Google News search for "Howard Dean" brings up an eye-popping 4,340 stories.
Let me save you some time. A recurrent theme is that Dean's staff has unleashed the power of the Internet, raising millions of dollars through online drives, organizing real-world meetings of thousands of supporters through MeetUp.com, and keeping everyone updated through the "official blog." But wait, there's more. There's a photo gallery, a video repository called Dean TV, and even a wireless news update service. Not too shabby for a guy who admitted to CNN that "I kind of missed the Internet boom." http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1060119435.phpThe former Vermont governor has a slick and informative Weblog, but if you hope to glean some insight about the man, you might be better off shaking hands with him in person.Anyone who has visited a magazine newsrack in America this week knows the mug of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. The centrist-turned-populist candidate for U.S. president had pulled off the triple threat in campaign PR: Dean is featured on the cover of Time, Newsweek and above the banner on U.S. News this week. If you wanted to read every recent media piece on Dean, you might as well put away anything left on your summer reading list. A Google News search for "Howard Dean" brings up an eye-popping 4,340 stories.Let me save you some time. A recurrent theme is that Dean's staff has unleashed the power of the Internet, raising millions of dollars through online drives, organizing real-world meetings of thousands of supporters through MeetUp.com, and keeping everyone updated through the "official blog." But wait, there's more. There's a photo gallery, a video repository called Dean TV, and even a wireless news update service. Not too shabby for a guy who admitted to CNN that "I kind of missed the Internet boom.http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1060119435.php I doubt I could name the senators on 3/4 of the states. MOST people do not know who the senatrors of states outside of their own regions are, unless they are reminded at election times. SORRY, this one just wont spin the way you want.DSean was campaigning in Iowa on Vermont time. He was doing so during his last six months as governor and WOULDNT give his schedule out.
Dean has been in Ioww campaigning more times than ALL OF THE OTHER CANDIDATES put together.Now the wisdom of the other candidates is becoming very apparant to me.Dean's message will be old news, when the other candidates start heavily campaigning after labor day, and the fact that 75 percent of all Iowans will switch their choiice VERY, VERY likely to hurt Dean rather than help him.I doubt I could name the senators on 3/4 of the states. MOST people do not know who the senatrors of states outside of their own regions are, unless they are reminded at election times. SORRY, this one just wont spin the way you want.DSean was campaigning in Iowa on Vermont time. He was doing so during his last six months as governor and WOULDNT give his schedule out.
Dean has been in Ioww campaigning more times than ALL OF THE OTHER CANDIDATES put together.Now the wisdom of the other candidates is becoming very apparant to me.Dean's message will be old news, when the other candidates start heavily campaigning after labor day, and the fact that 75 percent of all Iowans will switch their choiice VERY, VERY likely to hurt Dean rather than help him.

[whirlygigspin]

33. Bad bad Leroy Brown

sing along...

[Kanola]

36. IMHO no one has a handle on Dean

He is gaining unprecedented grassroots appeal. You cannot minimize that no matter how much you may disagree with his policies. Plus, your Dean bashing is getting old and I going to have to give more money to his campaign to compensate. Thanks!

[eileen from OH]

40. Geesh. . .

Get a life, dude. If you put 1/2 the energy into supporting whoeverthehell you like as you do coming up with anti-Dean stuff, you might actually convince someone.

eileeeeen from OH

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[tedoll78]

49. Wow.. we really have some bitter people around here.

*yawn*

[LuminousX]

52. All the More Reason to Put this Guy on Ignore

Redundancy and dogmatic hatred are not signs of good intellectual discourse. It is possible to discuss an article, an article that wasn't vitriolic at all, without the juvenile name calling.

Be that as it may, the poster is making the same mistake he has made over and over: assuming Dean supporters don't already know Dean's positions on things.

I'm not sure if there is an Ultimate Authority on Progressiveness, but Dean is certainly more progressive that Bush, just pragmatically progressive.

[lastliberalintexas]

53. In honor of you, Nick

I have upped my Drinking Game/Eats Puppies contributions to Dean to $5 for every thread or post from you. It remains at only $1 for others. I hope you appreciate the amount of (monetary) support you will be generating for Dean. Thank you for your support.

[Northwind]

54. heehee

I hope you have lots of cash stashed away!

Think you could add all of VoteForTheGuyWhosNotRunning's threads as well?

[lastliberalintexas]

56. Doubt I could afford that

It'll probably cost me an arm and a leg to just honor one of them. :-) Maybe someone else could take up the other guy's posts?

[CWebster]

55. "The Progressive Case for Dean"

"I passionately supported the Greens in 2000 and 2002. I traveled 125 miles to see Dennis Kucinich speak when he came to Los Angeles in May, and had the pleasure of introducing him to a crowd of several hundred when he visited Santa Barbara recently. Kucinich is a guiding light in Congress and, of the nine Democratic presidential contenders, his views most closely mirror my own.Yet I won't be voting for Kucinich in the Democratic primaries, nor will I vote Green in the general elections. My support will go to Howard Dean.

Yes, I've read the unfavorable commentaries on Howard Dean by writers whose opinions I greatly respect, like Norman Solomon and Alexander Cockburn. And yes, I know that I disagree with some critical components of Dean's platform. Progressives should be well aware that they're going to disagree on a range of issues with every individual who has a chance at being in the White House two years from now. Our choice is not between Howard Dean and the-even-better-candidate-who-has-a-shot-at-winning-the-Democratic-nomination-and-defeating-George-Bush; that other candidate doesn't exist. Neither Kucinich nor Al Sharpton nor Carol Moseley Braun nor any Green will be President. Progressives should incorporate these realities into their electoral strategy, however disappointing they may be...

..."Patience and fortitude conquer all things," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. In pressing times, progressives have demonstrated great fortitude by committing themselves to institutions and social movements that addressed injustices theretofore neglected. Howard Dean is no holy grail, but amidst a trend in our country toward widespread political ignorance and a sort of corporatized proto-fascist nationalism, perhaps it is our patience that is needed now. What we have in Dean is a man who can articulate liberal positions intelligently, passionately, and commandingly, and who has the grassroots/netroots support and an appeal to diverse constituencies that will allow him to defeat George Bush. Let's join Dean's campaign, get on his e-mail lists, and spread the word. "


http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0811-09.htm

[Cassandra]

57. Being attacked as a Zionist...

(Oooo! how dreadful, a Zionist! ) by the anti-Semitic Counterpunch, is not something Dean should be worrying about. When you prefer to let us know what you like about Kerry's positions, please feel free to comment.

[CWebster]

58. Actually, they all support Israel

++ Israel/Palestine: As Mid East analysts Ahmed Nassef and Stephen Zunes have pointed out, Dean's positions regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are very disappointing for those who seek a just and sustainable peace in the region. Unfortunately, they're also standard amongst the Democratic presidential hopefuls. All nine candidates essentially tow the same line: they support a vague "two-state solution," the removal of settlements (without details as to how many or when), and the cessation of terrorism, and they concede that further details will have to be worked out by the relevant parties. JTA, a Jewish news service, recently had a piece focusing on a hawkish Democratic fundraiser named Peter Buttenwieser, who notes that the "litmus test for me is a candidate has to be good on Israel. ... But all of these candidates are good on Israel." This pattern is hardly new. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair wrote that Paul Wellstone, "in common with ninety-eight other senators, craven on Israel." Even Kucinich chose not to join nearly two dozen fellow representatives in voting against a strongly worded May 2003 House resolution that "supported Israel's incursions into Palestinian territories, and apparently endorsed as justifiable the brutality and bloodshed the Israeli Army inflicted on the unarmed civilians there," according to prominent English-language daily Arab News.


http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0811-09.htm