Reply #117: The thing that concerns me about this...

[DirtyDawg]

...is that Obama, in an effort to pacify Billary, will allow them to throw Howard Dean under the bus (I really have grown to hate that term). If Barack does that I will lose a hellofalot of respect for him. Howard has done a great job in re-building the DNC following the 'surge' of the DLC which basically had abandoned what the Party had stood for (except for the South of course) since FDR.

And of course this is really the story here, just as it was in '76 when an upstart Jimmy Carter and the Georgia Mafia came riding into town with what they/we thought was an mandate to make changes....but nooooo. The irony is that Teddy Kennedy fought him, Carter, tooth and nail...wouldn't shake hands with him at his Inauguration and ran against him for the '80 nomination. Sadly, and indeed yet an even larger irony, just two days ago the architect of the Carter winning campaign, Hamilton Jordan, passed away from cancer. Sure if Jimmy had brought a few more of the 'old guard' into his administration he may have survived the battle of 'Inside The Beltway' - face it, he was against Repugs and Washington Dems for the entire four years and in the end, succumbed.

Obama, I know you've got to make some compromises to keep the Clintons from detonating their 'Doomsday Device', but don't let 'em lynch Howard, we'll never forgive you for that.