Dean interview with Wolf Blitzer - transcript

[ProfessorPlum]

Sorry if this has already been linked, I didn't see it. It is a great interview. Wolf has all of the ready-made spin points at hand, Dean deflects them easily.

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/24/le.00.html

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DEAN: The problem is that he managed to insult most of the countries whose help we now need in Iraq and in Afghanistan, and that's what happens when you have a foreign policy that's based on petulance. . .

DEAN: I balanced budgets; Tom DeLay has never done that.

I made sure every child in my state had health insurance. In Tom DeLay's state, they just cut 230,000 children off health care because they couldn't balance their budget.

I delivered jobs. The Republicans haven't delivered any jobs for a long time. And the Republicans haven't balanced the budget for 34 years in this country.

Let's let the American people decide who's the centrist, who's the mainstream political force here. I think Congressman DeLay and the president are way out there on the extremes.

And I just might add one more thing: We're not going to let them take our flag anymore. That flag belongs to everybody in the country; it doesn't belong to Tom DeLay. . . .

DEAN: And I have every intention of winning the nomination. I have every intention of sending George Bush back to Crawford, Texas. This is the most inept regime in America that we've had in a long, long time. Enormous job losses, 3 million jobs gone; adventures abroad which have resulted in enormous amount of loss of face. You know, we've lost our most powerful weapon in our struggle to democratize the world, and that's the respect of every nation around the world.

And I'll tell you one thing, if I become president of the United States, I'm going to make sure that I restore the dignity and respect that America deserves around the rest of the world.
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I love what this guy has to say.

[cjbuchanan]

1. Great to see Bush and Tom DeLay tied together

I like the line about us taking our flag back. Very strong.

I also like what most of the other nine are saying about Bush. I think all the truth the candidates are talking about is starting to sink into America. Bush's numbers down on just about every topic.

Keep whacking away and come 2004, we can show Bush and Co. the exit door.