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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 08:23 PM
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Can I just take a moment to say how much I LOVE Howard Dean?
The guy will go down as the best DNC chair in history. And I'm still holding out hope for a HowardIs45 campaign in 2016.



fuckin' HEEYAAAAAH!!!!
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w13rd0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 08:27 PM
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1. Absof*kinlutely...
...n/t
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elizfeelinggreat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 08:29 PM
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2. Me, too!
Yeeeaaaarrrrgh! He's a true hero!
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 08:31 PM
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3. Dean is one of those "shoulders" that Obama "stands on".
Dean paved the way. He lost the nomination, but his example got him the DNC Chair...and that got us a new way of doing politics.

Obama is very cognizant of the people who have strived and lost, that our while perception of the way things are done might change. Dean is one of those people.

..and those are the highest accolades that can be bestowed, in my opinion.
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Kixel Donating Member (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 09:48 PM
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13. It's not just Obama
It's all of the party members. My district had tools to elect the first state House Rep in over 20 years in place because of what he did. Granted, we may have done a little, but he did a lot of leg work to insure that we could have a plan in place to move forward.

Though he may have been a great president, he is a awesome chair. Much legislation that touches our lives locally is due to local politicians. A shift in power was greatly influenced by what he's doing.

I love that Obama seems to recognize that.
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DrDan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 08:31 PM
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4. yep - he is quite the leader
Handled the Florida and Michigan debacle with grace and intelligence. Restored confidence in the Democratic Party.
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 08:33 PM
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5. Who picked him as leader? I can't believe it would be the DLC folks.
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mopinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 09:36 PM
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12. iirc, it was us.
can't say i recall in all that detail, but there was a grass roots near riot demanding that he get the chair.
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 10:06 PM
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15. Huh.. I was out of the loop on that.
I'll admit to having mixed feelings on hiring him, since I wanted him to run in 08.
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eridani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:04 AM
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23. DFA started pushing it, and they were joined by PDA and other grassroots groups
I think it must have been the first time in the history of the party that regular footsoldiers even knew or cared who was chair. People focused on lobbying their state DNC members. That was the first time that I knew who they were.

The fifty state strategy has been wildly popular among state party people.
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bbgrunt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 12:13 PM
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28. yes! and kudos to all those who took up that fight to make him chair!
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 08:35 PM
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6. I HEART the good Doctor : - )))))) . . . nt
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 08:37 PM
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7. The obvious VP choice.
I'm groovin on Howard.

-Hoot
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 10:07 PM
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16. He's MUCH better in the DNC chair. The guy is a freakin genius.
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 10:45 PM
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20. Yep
:hi:
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Dr. Mullion Blasto Donating Member (67 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 08:49 PM
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8. Ditto!
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Happyhippychick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 09:24 PM
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9. I admit that I was not a fan until this election. Now I'm a diehard Deaniac.
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 09:31 PM
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10. Hell yeah!
:kick:
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 09:32 PM
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11. HEEYAAAAAH!!!!
The man deserves mad props for his mostly thankless job.
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 09:58 PM
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14. Go Dean. nm
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 10:10 PM
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17. You may say it
but I'll scream it!

I :loveya: Dr. Dean!
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 10:17 PM
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18. I love Dr Dean.
:loveya:
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Laelth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 10:28 PM
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19. K&R for the Good Doctor. n/t
:patriot:

-Laelth
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blonndee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 10:58 PM
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21. Love you, Howie!
YEAARRRGGH!
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 10:59 PM
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22. love dean too.... n/t
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:08 AM
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24. It's his dogged determination that I appreciate so much
even though it occasionally drove me nuts when he was guv.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:17 AM
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25. "Don't talk of Love.... SHOW ME"
Edited on Fri Jun-06-08 06:25 AM by annabanana
http://www.democrats.org
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 06:45 AM
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26. It'd be great if Obama picked him for VP
His leaving the DNC would be made up for by his presidential run in 2016.
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bbgrunt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 12:11 PM
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27. i'll eighteenth that! k and r
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 12:16 PM
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29. I believe Howard Deans rocks and he's been an excellent leader!
Edited on Fri Jun-06-08 12:17 PM by Uncle Joe
:yourock:

Thanks for the thread, jgraz.
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LucyParsons Donating Member (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 12:21 PM
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30. I met him walking down the street in 2006:


I ran into Howard Dean in front of Scholz's in Austin in 2006. He's really short. Clearly, not as short as me, but - surprisingly short.

I LOVE him. He's so... populist, and... CRAZY.

AAAAAOOOOOOOWWWW!!!!!!!
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krkaufman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 01:45 AM
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31. I was a comment somewhere in my reading in the last day ...
... where someone said, something like, "There is a direct line from Howard Dean to Ned Lamont to Barack Obama." (google is my friend... Carter Eskew, Gore's 2000 chief strategist)

The 50-State Strategy and other tactics successfully used by Obama's campaign definitely started with Dean.
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 06:20 AM
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32. I'm right here with ya!
Go Howard! :toast: :patriot:
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 06:35 AM
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33. Isecond that emotion.....
... Dean is the real deal.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-08-08 06:35 AM
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34. I cry a little when I see or hear him cause I had so much hope for the US
with Howard Dean as the commander in chief. I love the man and will always love the man.
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