Howard Dean speaks of voter suppression on CNN today..anchor squirms.

[madfloridian]

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[babylonsister]

1. Rec'd! Howard Dean is such a great spokesman for us! nt

[Warpy]

7. He'll be out on his bum if Clinton gets in

which is the main reason I can't support her candidacy.

Dr. Dean is the first good thing to happen to our party since 1969.

[babylonsister]

8. I'm sure you're right; we can't let that happen! nt

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[iamthebandfanman]

63. yeah, id imagine he doesnt

they kinda forced him into it since that was the only route he had to try to make change in the party since people LIKE CLINTON made such a big deal about his scream...

you gotta remember, when dean ran in 2004 he was the anti-dlc anti-establishment democrat...

or as he called it

the democratic wing of the democratic party

[catalinacat]

69. ain't it the truth

They are blaming Hillary for everything, the barack worshipers are just like the repugs, blaming Bill Clinton for everything..when bush screwed up.

[Cant trust em]

2. Dean is great. Just look at his facial expressions. Very forceful.

We need more dems like that.

[roguevalley]

16. I think Howard Dean has never looked better, young and healthy.

Go, DEAN!

[xxqqqzme]

17. I noticed that myself.

He looks great on camera! I noticed it when he was on w/ Jon Stewart last week.

[DrZeeLit]

46. Wow... I noticed, too. Think he's lost weight or lifted weight or...

maybe he's so fired up he's burning calories like crazy?!

He's my former governor and he often used to "hang out" at our campus because the President of the college is a personal friend. But I don't think he's been in VT much...so if he's lost weight and toned up while being on the road -- all the more impressive!

Go Howard!

[catalinacat]

70. he is

fit, but I always thought he looked fit, he certainly never looked fat. I like his energy!

[DrZeeLit]

74. Oh, well... up close and personal (he was here visiting the campus) he did

look a little pudgy ----- BUT BUT BUT... I'm qualifying....
this WAS in the time of his constant "chicken dinner" stump speeches.

He's so great for the country and VT. Here, he is AWESOME with the students!
He encourages them to get into the process. It's a joy to hear him speak!

[Plucketeer]

3. Tell 'em Howard!

Air out the dirty laundry so ALL can get a whiff of it. :grr:

[slipslidingaway]

4. Great job, Dean just kept on talking...

and thanks madfloridian for all of your Florida updates, they are appreciated.

:)

:applause:

[mopinko]

5. tell it howard.

dean and obama- a match made in heaven. i can't wait for november.

[MissMarple]

6. The anchor lost control of the interview, the poor guy.

He was in way over his head. :rofl:

Go Howard!!!

[Quantess]

10. The newscaster was probably worried his bosses would yell at him

for letting Dean go on and on like that.

Lousy video and audio quality, unfortunately. Otherwise I would recommend it.

[MissMarple]

22. Hummm...not an anchor, newscaster is better. Thanks. n/t

[madfloridian]

23. I posted the full interview below.

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[Indenturedebtor]

12. Yeah Howie! Enjoy this pwnage pic

You've earned it my friend :applause:

[pedo]

9. i love how the interviewer kept trying to interrupt him

because dean was talking about stuff that matters. we can't have that!

[BEZERKO]

62. More like because isn't following the standard plot line.

Way to go Howie! This is the man we named you after Carter Dean.

[Muttocracy]

11. go Dean go! :)

[madfloridian]

13. I hope someone puts up the whole interview.

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[ToughLuck]

14. Ha Ha..that reporter going to get to keep his job?? LOL

Go Dean!!!!!

[madfloridian]

15. Full interview on CNN

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2008/05/06/intv.dean.voters.speak.cnn

And here is the link to a partial transcript.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/06/dnc-chair-on-resolving-florida-michigan-stalemate/

"(CNN) – Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, set forth three principles that he thinks should govern any effort to reach a compromise regarding seating the Michigan and Florida delegations to his party’s nominating convention.

First, “we want to respect the voters who went to the polls,” Dean said. “It was politicians that made a mess of this — not the voters,” he told CNN’s Don Lemon Tuesday.
“Secondly, you have got to respect these two candidates,” Dean said of Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. “You cannot change the rules at the end of the game and change the outcome.”

“Thirdly, you’ve got to respect the 48 states that followed the rules they way they were supposed to,” the former presidential candidate said.

“So there will be some sort of compromise in the Rules Committee on the 31 of May, I hope,” the DNC chair said. “But we don’t know what that compromise is going to look like right now.”

[democracy1st]

18. thanks mad great job as usual

[Ned_Devine]

19. He's still the reason I started to care about politics...

...in the first place. What a bulldog! If the candidates won't attack McCain, let the good doctor do it

[madfloridian]

21. I agree.

He loves this stuff.

[Hulk]

20. I think Howard Dean is going to be on fire when the general election fires up....

Thank God for Dean. Obama is too "nice", and Hillary isn't going to get the nomination...or we'd have a mud flinging party.

Dean is the MAN!!

[GaVetRay]

24. I don't understand...

Why does everyone oppose voter ID being required to vote? Since there is no constitutional right to vote in federal elections I don't understand why everyone is opposed to the requirement of someone simply being required to show a simple FREE ID.

[madfloridian]

25. Not free, not that simple.

It must be government issued. Some elderly and shut ins don't drive, thus no driver's license.

I don't know how hard IN pushed the issue and told people what to do...but it is most definitely a way to keep the disabled, the poor, and low income from voting.

An example. I had to renew my driver's licence recently. The only instructions on the teeny card that came gave a website. Then it said if you don't have internet access...call this number.

The website was confusing even to someone good on computers like me. Setting up an appt was a pain in the neck.

So I called the number. They gave me the run around, even though they did answer promptly. First question, do you have internet access.

To older people and disabled, things like this are very hard to do. We have helped neighbors who get confused over such things, though they seem simple.

[PassingFair]

26. If my 83 year old aunt, who hasn't renewed her driver's license in

15 years, decided to vote on the spur of the moment, she
would be turned away.

She as always been able to have someone drive her to the
polls when she felt a stirring in her civic duty centers...

she would be screwed in this election.

Her signature should be enough.

It is enough for a contract to be entered into.

Driver's license is over-kill.

[madfloridian]

27. We have voter ID cards, but no photos....They would not work either.

If a person's driver's license is not renewed for age or vision or hearing...then they have to know how to get more ID.

[raystorm7]

28. Only a matter of time before they ask for BLOOD to make sure you are no cylon :p

[SmokingJacket]

32. Because it's designed to prevent Democrats from voting.

The people who have trouble getting picture ID are disproportionately Democratic.

Since there's no evidence that fraudulent voting is a problem, it's clear the motivation is to suppress these voters.

[GaVetRay]

40. Voter ID

In Georgia, which also passed a photo ID law, there were
numerous instances where "Uncle Joe" and "Aunt
Sue" voted for years after their death. I guess it would
be difficult for them to get photo IDs. Georgia offers the IDs
free of charge. If you know someone who needs an ID and
doesn't have transportation, drive them.

[Jackpine Radical]

44. First, my bet is that you can't actually come up with any examples

of the Graveyard Vote--it's a myth. If you can, you can't find 10 of them.

On the other hand, in your own state you have the example of Saxby Shameless and his outright theft of a seat away from Max Cleland. Are you aware of the "rob-georgia" file? If not, Google it for some interesting reading.

For the most part, "voter fraud" is a distraction from the real problem, which is election fraud (crooked voting machines, felons lists, etc.), which is almost exclusively a Republican endeavor.

[electropop]

48. The numbers simply don't justify the approach

There are massive problems with election fraud and voter suppression (to the tune of MILLIONS of voters being disenfranchised). There are virtually NO genuine cases of "voter fraud" (i.e. fraud committed by voters) but there are hundreds of thousands of cases of GOP operatives like you, fraudulently blocking voters because, for example, they weren't home the day that a registered letter sent in a caging operation arrived.

[CottonBear]

55. Provide proof. There is no "voter fraud." There is, however, ELECTION FRAUD by t he GOP n/t

[Debi]

59. IDs are free of charge?

But what 'proof of identity' is necessary to get the 'free' ID? Certified Birth Certificate? Costs $15.00 to get one of those (has to be ordered by the person who's certificate is being requested at the County Courthouse).

What else is necessary to get the 'free' ID card?

How does the person get to the site to procure their 'free' ID card?

[IronLionZion]

37. nuns got turned away by their own sister who knew them

because the new Indiana law requires the IDs. It disenfranchises those who don't drive. You have to pay for the ID, so it is a poll tax. Is it any wonder why Republicans support the ID requirement and Democrats do not? It mostly disenfranchises Democrats. We usually have strong support from the urban and elderly and minorities and poor.

[sybylla]

41. You know, it's people like you that some of our founding fathers were talking about

when they protested passing the bill of rights because they feared some idiot would come along and assume those are the only rights we have.

Secondly, in what state of denial do you live in where ID is free?

And lastly, where is all this supposed voter fraud? Howard Dean affirmed yesterday that there is not one case in Indiana in recorded history of someone being charged with fraud for voting when they should not.

It's a sham issue trumped up by Pukes to get uninformed voters to go along with their voter suppression tactics. And you fell for it.

[SharonAnn]

42. Those who don't have an ID are usually elderly, poor, or disabled.

Unless someone comes to their door and provides them with a "free" Voter ID, it's not free to them.

No car? No public transportation that you can use? You can't go to where the voter ID's are provided.

Need paperwork to prove you're disabled, elderly or poor? How do you get that since you can't get to anywhere it's provided.

And, why should it expire every six years? Or over? Once you register to vote, if you keep voting regularly, it should stay in effect.

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[L0oniX]

49. Wait until you are homeless with no drivers license and let me know how that works for ya.

[wryter2000]

52. Why do you feel the need to correct a problem that doesn't exist?

I'd be with you if there was any evidence the voter fraud occurs regularly. The only example I've ever heard of was Ann Coulter.

In the meantime, there's plenty of evidence that this would be a major inconvenience for poor and older people. The rightwingers are doing this deliberately to eliminate Democractic voters. It's vote suppression, just as Dr. Dean told that interviewer.

[ljm2002]

53. Hmmm, did you hear the part...

...where Dr. Dean mentioned that never, not once in the history of Indiana elections has there ever been a prosecution for voter fraud.

Yet they still passed one of the most restrictive voter ID laws in the nation, to combat a nonexistent problem.

Now, given that all legislative bodies have limited time and resources, why oh why do you think they spent their time on this particular law???

The question answers itself.

[CottonBear]

54. Because only 1/3 of GA counties have Drivers License offices and they are in mostly rural areas

(Georgia State Patrol stations) not accessible by foot, bicycle or public transportation.

As a fellow Georgian, I am surprised that you do not know this. I live in Athens-Clarke County and there is no drivers license office here. There USED TO BE one in the in town Kroger store BEFORE Perdue and the Rethuglicans came into office.
Can't have those old people, poor people, minorities and students voting, ya know? :sarcasm:

[DFW]

29. Howard was on firm familiar territory here

Republican voter fraud/supression has been a MAJOR interest to him
for years now. They got away with it 3 times: 2000, 2002 and 2004.
Since Howard has been DNC chair, it has been like an antibiotic
suddenly introduced to fight Republican infection. The MSM doesn't
want to hear about it. They just want to be first with numbers and
projections, and it's a lot easier when, as Republican Rep. Peter King
said on election day 2004, "we'll take care of the counting." Never again!

The poor anchor wanted to cut him off, but Howard knows that game, and
gets his point across even when they don't want him to, and they NEVER
want him to--which is why I do!

[disndat]

33. don't forget, 2006 too

The repugs or rw made sure we got a non-veto proof Congress.

[DFW]

34. I didn't think we could have gotten that anyway

There weren't enough races in play in 2006. We won most of those that were.
This time, we have a chance at a lot more of them without giving up any of
the ground we gained in 2006. It would still be a miracle if we got a veto-proof
Senate this time, or even a filibuster-proof Senate, but even a 55-45 majority
would be a powerful base for a Democratic President to work with, and that is a
goal that we can call realistic this time. That is one of the reasons I can't
agree with those who say "if it isn't Hillary/Obama (take yer pick), I'm not voting
Democratic this time."

If not this time, then when?

[disndat]

35. Thank god for Dr. Dean

Those big bad Diebold type machines are still in place. We need Dean to organize strategies to monitor areas where those machines are deployed. Let's not have another Ohio, '04. Bush's FEC is a non-functioning agency.

[DFW]

38. Howard is VERY much aware of the danger posed by Republican-programmed voting machines

He is totally on top of this to the extent that he can be.

[disndat]

39. Next to Obama winning last night

Dean has allayed my worst fears. How about, Dean for V.P.? That would not only make Obama assassin-proof,(as opposed to HC, as VP!) but I will think I have died and went to heaven.

[DFW]

50. That would raise an interesting possibility

Me having guitar jam sessions with the VP late into the night in DC.

YEAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!

[bbgrunt]

72. I like the way you think--And I loves me some Dr. Dean..

[madfloridian]

68. Hi DFW....

You are right. The media does NOT want to hear it. They want to play their stupid little mind games with us.

:hi:

[DFW]

73. But now, ALL the major Democrats are having none of it

Dean started it, and Bill Clinton continued it with his outburst at Chris Wallace,
but when the other Democrats saw that not only was Howard Dean not struck by lightning,
but neither was Bill Clinton, they suddenly figured out that they could speak their
mind in public, and right back at the very media that is paid to shut them up, and they
can still live to tell the tale. But Howard was THE first to start to do that. Only
because of him did the others figure out that mincing your words and being polite just
didn't have the same impact on progressives that National Hate Radio does on the radical
right. Speaking up forcefully and truthfully does NOT get you hit by lightning, after
all. It took Howard Dean to show that, but at least he was around to do it. Otherwise,
we might still be pulling out our hair at polite Democrats getting slaughtered at the polls
because they were somehow convinced it would be wrong to be anything but timid on TV.

Howard deserves the thanks of the whole party for having the guts to show us that there
is, too, life in politics after speaking your mind. The only thing that still makes me
want to scream is that it took so long for others in the party to follow his lead.

[barbtries]

30. i love the way he just keeps talking

the fucking anchors usually shut up the democrats post-haste. yeah.

[Senator]

31. Anchor Squirms At Suppression -- But Shuts It Down At "Torture"

Dr. Dean may yet cure DC-Impeachophobic Syndrome (intentionally or otherwise).

---

[poppysgal]

36. That is awesome

Dean was in complete control and despite it being on MSM the truth literally poured out of his mouth-seemingly unedited. I loved it.:toast:

[JNelson6563]

43. Howard Dean will fuck your shit up.

So the Rude One has always rightly proclaimed: http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2005/06/howard-dean-will-fuck-your-shit-up.html

Julie

[BlueJac]

45. Get it done Dean, great job!

[wryter2000]

51. Time to revisit this classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qP-ODj6Z1A

In which Dr. Dean hands Blitzer's privates to him.

[underpants]

56. LOL I love the sigh from Wolf at the end

:rofl:

None not one Democrat took money from Abramoff

[TBF]

66. Now THAT is good teevee.

[ooglymoogly]

58. More than the Best

Happy Howard go gittums day. Kick over the goal Post.

[defendandprotect]

60. I'd love to see him running the DOJ --- !!!

Or anything and everything else in DC --- !!!

[katty]

61. Go Dean!!!

[pacalo]

64. The anchor didn't squirm; he's the one who openly said "voter suppression".

My impression was that the anchor seemed totally interested in what Dean was saying; it was the voice in the anchor's earpiece that wanted him to rein in Dr. Dean.

Too bad that Dr. Dean had to agree not to run for the '08 presidency in order to get the DNC job. He speaks for all of us.

[TBF]

67. Yeah, Lemon is one of the good ones on CNN. I think he's with us on Obama too.

[blondeatlast]

65. Dean makes a great surrgate! He OWNED that segment. Excellent--and I was NOT a

fan of him as a candidate b6y any means.

:applause:, Doctor! YES!

[Bensthename]

71. truthfully I did not care for him in '04. But over the last few years Ive learned

to really like this guy.

[Kurovski]

75. K&R

The giggling airheads on cable news are intolerable by any standard. They get worse every year.

Thank you Dean.