Howard Dean's best quotes from his speech today:

[The Witch]

"Republicans cut and run in New Orleans."

"These are the moral values of America: Honesty, Hard Work, Brotherhood, and Courage."

"This is a President who cannot find a single 6 foot 4 Saudi(?) and he wants to find and deport 11 million undocumented workers? No, he does not - this is SCAPEGOATING."

"It's not fair for the President to leave his mess in Iraq to someone else: He got us into this mess and he owes it to the American people to get us out."

[tridim]

1. I am now

Kick kick kick!

[Jim Sagle]

9. Me too. K&R.

[frustrated_lefty]

2. People powered Howard!!!!!!

Thanks for the heads up! :)

[Zenlitened]

12. Yeah, baby! Dr. Dean speaks for me!

[azurnoir]

3. I have to disagree

The repukes didn't "cut and run" they "sat back and watched" maybe along with some "urban redevelopment people"

[BattyDem]

23. You're absolutely right! In order to cut and run ...

you have to show up in the first place - which the Repugs never did! :grr:

[acmavm]

4. This guy is a case of a maybe not so physically attractive guy being

one of the most powerfully attractive men on earth simply by virtue of his integrity, decency, and guts.

[frustrated_lefty]

7. Yes.

[TheDebbieDee]

15. Whadayamean "not-so-attractive guy"?

Howard's a nerdy kind of hottie!

[wryter2000]

18. I think he's cute

But then, I'm his age. Someone has a picture of him from when he was in his twenties, and he was a hottie.

[acmavm]

29. Yeah, when I was the age he was in that photo, I was a hottie too. But

very few of us, unless we have lots of money to spend on the process, take it with us into late middle age.

[wryter2000]

35. He's aged better than I have eom

eom

[BattyDem]

24. Are you kidding?

Dr. Dean's a hottie! :loveya:

[Rose Siding]

27. Those qualities show too, but have you seen this photo?

http://img.photobucket.com.nyud.net:8090/albums/v189/plastic_turkeys/young_howard_dean.jpg

[blue neen]

33. Oh, I looooove that picture.

Looks and brains. Howard's got it all.

[wryter2000]

36. That's the one

Be still, my heart. :evilgrin:

[napi21]

40. WHERE was this pic published? It looks like a magazine!

I've NEVER seen that before!

Thanks for posting it!

[NYCGirl]

41. Here's another version of it —

and another one I like:

[NYCGirl]

42. Here's a fairly recent pic from Vogue Magazine. He looks pretty great!

[Cha]

44. Oh, Dean is Freakin'

ADORABLE!

Edited~ to say ..Thanks for the recent pic :D

[Cha]

43. I don't know where you

get that "maybe not so physically attractive guy"..? Some people think he's a real cutie, inside and OUT! :)

[acmavm]

45. I don't know, outside I see it as so-so. Inside I see it as gorgeous,

absolutely gorgeous. And that's the part that matters most.

[Coastie for Truth]

5. Agrees with my observation

Repubs cut, ran, and tried to cover up -- at a massive human cost.

[babylonsister]

6. Dr. Dean is doing a terrific job of connecting the ugly repug dots! nt

[Beetwasher]

8. That's A BRILLIANT Frame!!!

Absolutely brilliant.

[Rose Siding]

10. I liked: Americans are tired of being lectured about moralty by

people who brought a culture of corruption and cronyism to govt

Americans are tired of being lectured to about patriotism by people who always choose party over country.


He's really cooking now

[Rose Siding]

11. Bush owes it to the American people to GET US OUT OF IRAQ

[frustrated_lefty]

13. This man could have been our president.

I wish that had happened. But, it didn't. This man, following the integrity of his beliefs, speaks for us to the best of his ability. And he speaks to that which is best within us, calling upon us to do better. He's on the short list of people I consider to be genuine heros.

Thank you Howard, and thank you for the inspiration.

[LSK]

16. i share your sentiments completely.

[Rose Siding]

25. Joe Klein's newest says Dean is "prohibitively cold and arrogant"

I couldn't believe it. And he calls Kerry a coward.

snip>
Klein describes himself as a liberal who has drifted toward the moderate center. Liberals might find his book especially tough on their heroes. (He writes off Howard Dean as "prohibitively cold and arrogant.") Indeed, Klein says the Republicans package their campaigns more tidily, and he can't help saluting Ronald Reagan as an effective politician.

As for Kerry: "he was all dignity and no details. ... the man was a hero under fire and a coward when he wasn't."

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/reviews.nsf/book/story/F0BAEC73D470A2E986257158004E9ED5?OpenDocument

[LSK]

26. could Klein be part of the Washington Dem establishment??

Those people who fought against his DNC chairmanship and those people who are jealous of the outrageous success that hes having with the 50 state plan and democracy bonds???

[Pirate Smile]

30. Klein seems to have turned on all Dems. It is pathetic that Time Mag.

has him as their token liberal. What a joke.

[sandnsea]

34. bwahahaha

Can we finally agree to stop calling our candidates boring, stiff, wooden, aloof; and now "cold and arrogant". This is what they do, to anybody. Howard Dean, cold and arrogant, now that is really a stretch. Klein is a turd.

[wryter2000]

37. Of all the idiotic things to say

What is Klein smoking? If he'd said Howard is a coward and Kerry's aloof and arrogant, he would have been lying, but at least, it would have made some sense.

Aloof and arrogant was out with a wheel barrow yesterday helping to clean up someone's house. Look at the picture someone posted earlier in the thread of Dean laughing. Is that aloof and arrogant?

Klein needs to take his meds.

[Cha]

46. Cause Dean didn't kiss

klein's ass? Lucky, no one gives a rat's ass what klein thinks.

[janx]

48. Cold and arrogant?

[Rose Siding]

14. Now he's blasting the press in NH for working for repubs

The NH Union Register :rofl:

[wryter2000]

17. I love that man!

Give 'em hell, Howard. :loveya:

[young_at_heart]

19. Bush plans to return and rock on Trent Lott's new porch...such empathy!!

Ask yourself this: If Bush's response in NOLA was pathetic, would you trust him in your city with a major disaster? Michael Moore showed us his slow response on 9/11...how on earth did Rove spin that into "leadership"?

[LSK]

20. i liked his line on Social Security

"We are going to preserve Social Security as FDR intended it and not as George Bush and wall street want it."

He got a standing ovation for that.

[JohnnyRingo]

21. I really like that last one

"It's not fair for the President to leave his mess in Iraq to someone else: He got us into this mess and he owes it to the American people to get us out."


It's true, NeoCon claims that "we're in it for the long run" is just the rhetoric of perpetual war.
So is "everyone thought they had WMDs"

Buxh was ready to use the "liberation" to define his legacy until it all went to hell. Now he wants to hand it off to his successor and proclaim it "America's war" as if he was an unwitting bystander. ....FUGW, This will always be your war.

[mapatriot]

22. The real deal.....

That's Howard!! We should be looking at him or Ted Kennedy for president in '08.

[itzamirakul]

28. Hmmmm...transparent as a pane of glass

And what makes you think Dr. Dean or Ted Kennedy should run for the Presidency?

[mapatriot]

39. Cause.....

The nation needs committed, reasoned and honest leadership. We need a president with integrity who can inspire us to be proactive in addressing the health care, economic and social challanges facing us at home and the terror, enviornmental and social challanges facing the world. We need a leader whose agenda will be inclusive for all americans, not just a limited group of theocrats and big business. In other words, just the opposite of Bush and his cabal. Kennedy and Dean best represent that for the nation.

[Gregorian]

31. Touche!

You douchebags!

Use their own little phrase to stab them in the place that once was their heart.


Thanks for posting that. You made an otherwise beautiful spring day, with cats in the sun, and a breeze, and no migraine, an even better day. We shall overcome, again.

[0007]

32. What a breath of fresh air to watch Howard Dean and others

this morning.

[BrklynLiberal]

38. Kicked and recommended !

[nicknameless]

47. Did the rethugs really "cut and run" in NOLA? That isn't what I saw.

I saw them use the tragedy to bilk more people and manipulate public opinion:

-> Big money contracts to Halliburton for rebuilding.
-> Used it as an excuse to move Democratic residents out of the area so that their land could be seized.
-> With Dem residents gone, elections held anyway.
-> Used it as an excuse to send gas prices soaring.
-> Used it as an excuse to suspend Davis-Bacon Act.
-> Neglected levees, prevented rescue & relief -- then blamed resulting problems on the Dem Governor.