Video of Howard Dean's great interview in studio with Tavis Smiley.

[madfloridian]

Trancript and Audio are there as well. Good interview.

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200706/20070614.html

"Dean: This president is more dishonest than Richard Nixon. He is using the Justice Department to suppress the vote. Those attorneys were fired because they didn't do a good enough job suppressing the vote. It is outrageous. In fact, one of them actually did his job well enough that he was investigating complaints about the Republicans suppressing the vote

The Justice Department is becoming a laughingstock, and George Bush makes Richard Nixon look like an honest man, he really does. What's going on is a disgrace. To use the Justice Department, which is supposed to be an independent force in the enforcement of justice in America to suppress the vote of your opponents is a disgrace, and Alberto Gonzalez should not be in office."

More from the interview about all the Democrats catching heat for the Iraq funding vote. In another statement later in another interview Dean said a couple more chances should be given. He acknowledged they are catcing a lot of flak and anger over it.

Dean: The key is - look, we don't have the votes to get the president out of Iraq. We start off with 49 votes in the Senate. The House has the votes; the Senate does not. But we need to make sure that the blame goes to where it's supposed to be. If you look at all six or seven - however many there are - Republican candidates, every single one of them says we ought to support the president on Iraq.

Turn Iraq into Korea, be there for 50 years. The Democrats say, “Get out of Iraq.” We don't have the votes to get us out of Iraq in the Senate. What we do have the votes to do is, I think in this country, is to elect a Democratic president. The only way to get us out of Iraq is to elect a Democrat president of the United States in 2008, and we will be out of Iraq.

But the one thing we made the mistake in the last one is we did not make it clear where the blame belonged.

[NastyRiffraff]

1. That's my man!

Dean has always told it like it is (and has taken heat for it from both Republicans and some Democrats). I still believe that had he won the nomination, he would have won the presidency and we wouldn't be in the godawful mess we're in now. But, no sense in brooding on what might have been. At least we have him as DNC chairman and he's doing a great job.

[madfloridian]

2. In addition to this great video:

Linda from the DFA blog has a great summary up of the Take Back America conference with videos and pictures.

http://www.blogforamerica.com:80/view/21297

Thanks to her for that summary.