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Howard's moment

by Jerome Armstrong, Tue Jul 27, 2004 at 09:29:51 PM EST

Thursday night instead of Tuesday night.... no doubt about that one. The Democratic wing of the Democratic party is here. Telling the truth to the American people brought back the voice to the Democratic Party. He's Howard Dean, and he's voting for John Kerry, so will I, and hopefully so will over 50% of the people in Ohio, New Hampshire, Florida, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. The other day, I was in the suite with the Governor as he looked over his speech, and what he wanted most, was to not give the speech that everyone else was giving--vintage Howard Dean. We will take it back, because we have the power.... in Utah, Wyoming, and Texas! Man, I wish.

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Dean Speech (none / 0)

All I can say is "Yeeeeaah"! The Democratic Party owes more to Dean than it can ever repay. He gave them back their backbone. Besides that, Dean continues to amaze me with his humble devotion to the "good fight".

When Kerry takes office, if he does not offer Dean a cabinet postition, shame on him!

by Anonymous Citizen on Tue Jul 27, 2004 at 10:08:46 PM EST

NO NO NO (none / 0)

We need Dean to be on the outside of the administration, keeping Kerry honest or challenging him if he backslides, and building the Democratic wing of the Democratic party, helping us build the grassroots power so that dream does not die.

by Anonymous Citizen on Tue Jul 27, 2004 at 10:17:30 PM EST

just so you know, jerome... (none / 0)

...it looked amazing on tv. here is what i wrote on my own blog. i'd paste it here but some of the language is, um, off color.

Visit us at TexasKAOS, where we're taking Texas back!

by annatopia on Tue Jul 27, 2004 at 11:24:30 PM EST

Re: Howard's moment (none / 0)

The Democrats could never repay what Howard Dean did for them and I hope history captures this man's enormous contribution. I think Howard Dean will ultimately be responsible for a revolution in politics with perhaps an emerging viable new party.

by Anonymous Citizen on Wed Jul 28, 2004 at 01:25:28 AM EST

Re: Howard's moment (none / 0)

I hope they do find a way to show him respect. Writing his speech for him was not the way. Its Kerry's party and we're just along for the ride -- but . . .

Dean's recent speeches have been about getting new people involved in the political process, not just in terms of voting but in campaigning, fundraising, and in running for local offices. That is not a negative Bush bashing diatribe that needs to get filtered of the convention because of fear that Fox News will get 5 minutes of negative spin on the democrats. Treating Dean with kid gloves just tells me that they don't get it and they buy some sort of premise that he is a crazy loose cannon who might make some wild statement like "child prostitution in cuba wouldn't be a problem if we supported the dispersal of condoms by international aid organisations" or "We're no safer today than before Saddam was captured" if they didn't hold him in check.

I know Kerry doesn't plan on following this "safe" strategy through his Presidency -- but what we are seeing now doesn't give us a great glimpse of what he will do.

by Anonymous Citizen on Wed Jul 28, 2004 at 04:24:13 AM EST

Dean (none / 0)

I was so heartened by the ovation that the Delegates gave for Dean.

I am just frustrated that the DNC just doesn't get it. Richardson on Jon Stewart was bragging about slanting their whole program towards the young, squishy, undecideds. In otherwords "to Hell with the base".

by Anonymous Citizen on Wed Jul 28, 2004 at 09:59:21 PM EST

I wish he had gone off-script (none / 0)

what he wanted most, was to not give the speech that everyone else was giving

I really wish he had tossed aside the script, said screw it, and spoke from the heart. After all he's done for Kerry, what were they going to do to him if he didn't follow the script?

All that talk about giving Dean credit it is just that, lip service. DNC doesn't get it at all.

And I do not want him to end up in a Kerry cabinet. He needs to stay on the outside so he can be a pain in Kerry's ass when the time comes. Which, I figure, will be about 6 months after Kerry takes office.

by KimPossible on Thu Jul 29, 2004 at 11:36:31 AM EST

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