Dean coming up on Hardball replay now!

[dkf]

I heard wonderful things about this interview.

Can't WAIT to see him kick Repub butt!

[Cascadian]

1. Man. I don't care what all of you think.

This man rocks and I wish to the Creator HE was the candidate instead of Kerry. Dean would clean Bush's clock in a debate.


John

[VolcanoJen]

2. Tuned in!!!

Thanks for the heads-up, dkf!!

[0rganism]

3. Dean was solid -- blinked a bit too often, tho

Do they have 1000W halogens beating down on him or something? He blinked like twice a second for a while. Kind of distracting.

But what he had to say was direct, insightful, and damning. I don't think there's even much controversy over the substance of what he said, he's mainly putting forth the facts that have been so badly miscovered by the whore press.

Tweety let him talk this time. I was surprised.

[dkf]

4. Wowee!

Nobody tells it like Howard Dean.

[MrSlayer]

5. I thought he did a great job.

He was squirming a bit when asked about his own show but on the political topics he was flawless.

[Maccagirl]

6. I really grew to like him

as a person and a policymaker during the campaign. I haven't seen the interview. A part of me thinks he's simply too good a person to be fed to the lions, as it were. I know he could take care of himself, but the attacks by Bush.Inc would have been overwhelming.

[UnityDem]

7. Yep, he's way too

honest, forthright, and unmeasured. No way he would have survived Bushco attacks. For his sake, glad he's not the nominee.
Kerry is more of a hardened veteran and can take what's coming...at least, I hope he can.

[dkf]

8. He could have survived Bushco attacks because he is RIGHT!

The strongest part of his message was the basic morality behind everything he said. That is what gave him the strength to take Bush on and affect public opinion early on.

Notice that when Dean was on the offense Bush's numbers fell. When Dean was out of the race and out of the news, Bush's numbers start rising again, even though Bush's own news is pretty terrible.

Bush is trying to push his view as moral also, but as Dean says, his argument is based on a flawed interpretation of choices. For instance, Bush portrays his decision to invade as either believing Saddam Hussein tells the truth, or going to war. As Dean says, you can still believe that Hussein is lying AND not go to war...Bush is presenting a FALSE CHOICE.

Dean is the only person I have ever heard who examines the illogic behind Bush's arguments. But once Dean makes his point, it becomes clear and Bush's argument falls apart.

What makes me sad about Kerry is that Kerry has NEVER said anything that amazed me with his insight or perception. Dean did this all the time when he was running. I really found it a turn on.

[seabeyond]

9. when did tweety get pissy with dean

when dean wanted to talk about the washington yak yaks.........didnt you see how he changed tweety. lol lol was funny. and then comes back to dean, you are an angry man, huh says dean, what,......

[madfloridian]

10. Chris then referred to the yak yaks again, asked will you be one of us?

That was funny. Dean said not a Washington one....from Burlington. Chris laughed about Burlington being the big "entertainment center".

I thought it was a great interview, and I miss the way he speaks the truth so clearly.

[madfloridian]

11. Hardball transcript from last night.

Leaves out a lot of the laughing and joking, though, especially near the end.
Transcript from Hardball last night:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4899307/

SNIP:...."But the president doesn‘t lie outright. What he does is let people think things that aren‘t so, for example, talking about the connection between defending the United States and attacking Saddam Hussein. The truth is there is no connection and there never has been.

And if you pressed him on it and had the opportunity to ask him that question in different ways, he would have to admit it, just as he admitted there was never any Iraqi purchase of uranium from Niger, just as he ultimately admitted there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. But, you know, 80 percent of the people who watch Fox television think there is a connection. Even 24 percent of the people who watch—or who listen to NPR think there is a connection, because this administration has been trying to hint there was a connection for lo these many months....."

SNIP..."HOWARD DEAN (D), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Oh, it‘s just more nonsense, the kind he‘s been talking about the past year and a half.

Defending the United States of America had nothing to do with getting rid of Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein is a dreadful person, but he was never a danger to the United States. The president has admitted there was no connection between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. So what the president does and the Republicans are so good at doing is they make an assumption that‘s not true and then they defend it.

The president didn‘t have a choice between defending the United States of America and taking the word of a madman. We know Saddam Hussein‘s word was no good. We also now know after Richard Clarke‘s testimony and his book, off Paul O‘Neill‘s testimony and his book, that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the threat in the United States and the president was going to go to war with Saddam Hussein long before 9/11. ...."