A good speech
Posted on:: September 23rd, 2003
Dean in Boston. (It helps to imagine a crowd roaring as you read it.)
If you haven’t yet contributed to the Dean campaign – or even if you have – this would be a good time to. Closing the quarter with a bang would make a huge difference to the dynamics of the race.
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For as much as he sells himself as not Washington politician his language is sure starting to sound like it. In particular his quote in today’s New York Times “This democracy and the flag of the United States,” he then said, “do not belong to Rush Limbaugh and Jerry Falwell and Tom DeLay and John Ashcroft and Dick Cheney.” seems to practice the politics of exclusion that is so popular in Washington today. I can understand not agreeing with a political vision, but to deny another’s patriotism is unfortunately all common place in the two party mentality lately (on both sides). From Dean’s past and what you have blogged I keep hoping for more out of him, but from I what I hear him say it’s not encouraging.
In context, it’s part of the “taking back our country” rhetoric: The Limbaugh’s et al. have been claiming they’re the only ones who are patriotic. Dean’s claim is that it belongs to all of us, including the Rushman.
Too bad it didn’t come across that way.
As a leftist democrat who had the gumption to dare to ask real questions on the Dean blog for america, and was repeatedly harassed, sent hate mails, two containing viruses, and then this morning get a call from a company that does background checks claiming that they were conducting one for a company that claimed I was seeking employment from them.. all I have to say is that if this is indicative of the type of people who support Howard Dean,I would be just as terrified by a Dean presidency as I am by a Bush presidency. Don’t any of you ever research a candidates history, or do you just use lip service to base important decisions on. Dean is not the panacea to the real problems facing us. What I’m learning fast about the Gen Y’ers who make up Dean’s base is that that they are as blind as their republican parents who voted in Reagan, Bush’s I & II.
Alice, what makes you think that your being called by the employment agency has anything to do with the Dean campaign? Do you have any idea how easy it is to get on a spammer’s list? All you have to do is visit a site that installs spyware or fill out a form if you buy something online or join a site (privacy policies are BS, because they find a way around them. For example, if you order something online the store will give you a privacy assurance but fail to mention that the shopping cart is administered by another company with no such guarantee). So I don’t see how you can logically assume that being called by an employment agency was the result of posting on the Dean blog. Besides, did you ever give your phone number on the blog? If not, you most definitely cannot blame the campaign for having a solicitor call.
Furthermore, Alice, as a Dean supporter from Gen Y, I really do not appreciate being called blind…if you don’t like Dean, fine, but don’t think for one second that those of us supporting him don’t know what he stands for…ask me anything, anything at all about him and I will probably be able to tell you, as would most of the “Gen-Y’ers” (g-d is that a condescending term the way you use it!) I know who are supporting him. We know he is not ultra-left, and I for one would not want him to be…if we were looking for a far-left candidate we’d be supporting Kucinich.
Anyways, I am sorry if people were rude to you on the Dean blog, but please don’t assume that they are my age. If you want some “real” answers about Dean e-mail [email protected] and I will try to answer them.