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A lot of what you say is true, we, an impassioned group of people who've felt the Democrats have ignored the left, did find support in Dean. I don't know about the middle-everything part.
I do agree about the whole campaign being portrayed as some youthful folly by the media. It serves as another way of trashing Dean, like saying "Ah, there just abunch of kids on their computers, what do they know." In truth, my meet up group in Mobile, AL is composed of mostly people from 35-60, and we have very few young folks. For that matter, the youngsters we did have didn't show up this last week. Gone to Kerry? I don't know, but I suspect the old-folks everywhere are the ones who stuck by him, as the young have been more influenced by this one-sided media than any of us, who've had media-experience before the "fairness doctrine" was repealed by Reagan.
I don't think Dean is as liberal as Kucinich either, nor are his supporters. We realize it is his honesty about the issues that appeals to us, not this idea of him being liberal. That being said, Dennis's most similar candidate is Dean, and if he were to withdraw, most likely his voters would go straight to Dean. He should think about doing so, but I stand by his right to stay, and I like the fact that he brings the message of the truly left-most to the stage.
I've thought for some time that Clark entering the race, and totally adopting Dean's message to the "T" was a ploy of sorts to split the anti-war vote. It worked, another small portion of votes sipped away from Dean. On the upside there, he took a lot of Lieberman's votes too, which I could never quite figure out. If Clark had just bided his time, and waited for the VP slot, that would have been just another small impediment out of Dean's way. Of course, the media would still be attacking him with unfair fury.
It is a myth that Dean is angry, or that he was angry in that supposed scream speech. Once again, the media understanding the sheeple nature of our country's population, and how easily they can take it from empassioned, to angry, wild-man on the nuclear-button. We all owe it to our country to realize the corporate media doesn't just report the news, but they are trying to influence the minds of America to the candidate they will find most malleable.
Our ministry of propaganda would put Hitler's to shame. One has only to watch the media from Europe, or Canada to find many issues discussed that don't find the light of day on the America's corporate mouthpieces, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, FOX, and any I might have missed.
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