Did Howard Dean Clarify/Apologize Today?

:shrug:

Guess DU has been a bit busy with other issues also...

I've been moving.

this is about as close as I can get to "research" tonight.

I have not heard of an apology. I'd like to hear one though.

I'm sorry, so sorry
That I was such a fool
I didn't know
Love could be so cruel
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Uh-oh
Oh, yes

You tell me mistakes
Are part of being young
But that don't right
The wrong that's been done


(I'm sorry) I'm sorry
(So sorry) So sorry
Please accept my apology
But love is blind
And I was to blind to see
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Uh-oh
Oh, yes

You tell me mistakes
Are part of being young
But that don't right
The wrong that's been done
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Uh-oh
Oh, yes

I'm sorry, so sorry
Please accept my apology
But love was blind
And I was too blind to see
(Sorry)

as sung by Brenda Lee

Seriously though, a simple ---

"I'm sorry if my statement to CBN offended anyone in the GLBT community. I meant only to build bridges not to malign friends. I apologize if what I said hurt our brothers and sisters."

Is that so difficult? Too much to ask?

Thats my answer.

Part one, the screwup bonehead thing is in italics. Part two, the thing we would want 700 clubber's to here is in bold.

I have seen endless quoting of the first part, which was boneheaded and dean apologized for. The second part, nobody in these overheated posts or blogs writes about.

But quite frankly, The bolded parts trumps the italicized mistake, IMHO.



"The Democratic Party platform from 2004 says that marriage is between a man and a woman," Dean told Robertson. "That's what it says. I think where we may take exception with some religious leaders is that we believe in inclusion, that everybody deserves to live with dignity and respect, and that equal rights under the law are important."

http://365gay.com/Newscon06/05/051106dean.htm

This is his statement from today.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=221&topic_id=34343&mesg_id=34343

Either he doesn't know his job or he is trying to rewrite party platform. Either way it makes him look the idiot that he is.

How DARE he.

I wonder.
He didn't explain what he was doing on the religious
network of the kkk.

He went on 700 club for the same reason he goes on fox IMHO. Read the second part of what he said.

Part one, the screwup bonehead thing is in italics - he shouldn't have said it, it was erroneous, and plain dumb. Part two, the thing we would want 700 clubber's to hear is in bold. The bold trumps the italic, IMHO.



"The Democratic Party platform from 2004 says that marriage is between a man and a woman," Dean told Robertson. "That's what it says. I think where we may take exception with some religious leaders is that we believe in inclusion, that everybody deserves to live with dignity and respect, and that equal rights under the law are important."

http://365gay.com/Newscon06/05/051106dean.htm

Let the record speak for itself.

Dean misstates Democratic platform on gays

Party chairman’s pitch to religious conservatives angers gay advocacy group

Updated: 5:44 p.m. ET May 11, 2006

WASHINGTON - Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean mischaracterized his party's platform on gay rights in an interview courting evangelicals, then set the record straight Thursday when an advocacy group called him on it.

Dean told Christian Broadcasting Network News that the 2004 Democratic platform declares "marriage is between a man and a woman" — just one of the points he made in reaching out to religious conservatives who are largely hostile to the party.

But the platform does not define marriage that way, and his remarks prompted the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to return a $5,000 donation from the Democratic National Committee.

<snip>

Foreman said Dean should be persuading Democrats to fight against ballot initiatives seeking to ban gay marriage but instead has misrepresented the party's "important and affirming plank" several times.

"There has been a disturbing lack of clarity from Governor Dean about where we fit into the party and the country," he said after Dean corrected himself.

Foreman said the $5,000 was for sponsorship of the group's leadership awards dinner in Washington last week and will be missed.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12743945/