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| My problem with the Democratic party, and their lack of support of Howard Dean. |
| 01.29.04 (1:26 pm) [edit] |
Let me start simply;
I've, from the beginning and still do currently support Howard Dean. His views, I feel are most representative of my own. However, from the onset of his surge, he has been the whipping boy of everyone. From the media, the Republicans and sadly, no one more than his own party.
Here's my quandary;
Take the now famous post Iowa speech, that has been slung through the mud even to this day. People have forever, including myself, been wishing for a candidate that would exude passion, shoot from the hip, and have you believe that he believed in exactly what he was saying, rather than being the blatant pandering robotic Presidential carbon copy you see every single election.
And that's what I saw when Howard Dean gave that speech to thousands of supporters, and personally, I couldn't have been more excited to be behind him. The first reaction, that eventually became rule over exception, came from right wing pundit jackoff Sean Hannity.
Now, Sean's doctrine of high school meat headed no content bullying would, as it always does, resonate in the 'minds' of his ' have to wear velcro, because laces are far too complicated' contingent of fans, but what had me completely agape, was that this sentiment was echoed across the political board.
Howard Dean, the frontrunner through Iowa, never has the backing of his own party. DNC officials made it no secret that they had no interest in giving the nomination to him.
To me, this is one of centrifugal problems, or cancers of the Democratic Party, and an area where we could learn a thing or two from our sinister friends across the aisle. There's always talk of W. being a divider rather than a uniter, which the State of the Union made very axiomatic, but it's just lip service, as the most division comes from within the Democratic Party itself. Especially in this election year, which may be the most important election we ever have the opportunity to effect.
I've heard their reasoning, and am not satisfied that Dean is not electable. Dean, I feel is electable, and furthermore, would certainly be more electable if he had the entire backing of his party, or christ, some backing from some of the party.
Dean, to me, is the only candidate that has any genuine directon for this country. You needn't look any further than Howard's universal health care initiative that the rest of the field, mainly Kerry and Edwards have piggybacked on Dean's idea in regards to health care, the only difference is that Dean created it, and has the best chance to take this country in a new and bright direction.
Get on board and behind dean.
www.deanforamerica.com
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| Iraq was a what? gathering threat? |
| 01.29.04 (8:34 am) [edit] |
Coming directly from the mouth of the horse of the administration of absurdity, Resident Bush said on Wednesday to Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewsk, that Iraq was a "gathering threat" to America and the world. Now, as I was watching this live, I have to tell you, I just sat there frozen for a minute or two. And then the only reaction possible came out;
"What in the name of god does that mean?"
After some digression, I can still tell you I have little to no idea what this means, at least to anywhere that would be satisfactory to this cynic.
I can tell you one thing for certain though;
This is a far cry from W's stern speech on Jan. 22, 2003, when Bush told an audience in St. Louis, "The dictator of Iraq has got weapons of mass destruction.
how is it feasible to go from the adjective imminent to gathering? Let's give it a shot.
Imminent-expediently-oste nsibly-maybe-dubious-no threat-gathering.
The part that mystifies me here is the fact that the American population is not as incredulous as I, and calling daily for independent inquiries and the removal of shrub from office. But alas, the passivity and ignorance in this country leads me to believe that if Bush told any one of these louts that they themselves were terrorists, they'd be more than happy to lead themselves to the gallows.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" title="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" target="_blank"http://www.foxnews.com/story/...,2933,109599,00.html
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