Howard Dean on The Situation Room

[mojogeorgo]

I've got the text of Howard Dean on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer here for anyone who is interested.


http://shadowbfa.blogspot.com/

Wolf asked about Howard's comments that race, age and income played a role in who survived the hurricane.

[bliss_eternal]

1. Thank you for the link--and Welcome to DU, mojogeorgo!

...very interesting reading thus far!

:hi:

[thoughtanarchist]

2. Go DEAN!

tell. it. like. it. is.


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Wolf: Asks if Howard believes there were racist or racial overtones in the response of the federal government to this disaster.

Howard: No, I don't think so. What I do think, however, is that the way our society has worked in the last 20 years--well, actually a lot longer than that--but in the last 20 years when nobody's been talking about it, is in fact that those below the top 20% in America, White, Black, and Brown, have been significantly disadvantaged. The average income in this country went down $1700 since George Bush has been president, for everybody under the top 20%. There is something the matter with a country that doesn't want to talk about what's good for 80% of the people and focusses on what's great for 20% of the people.

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