******** Thank you Howard Dean and Thank you Madfloridian ********

[Catherina]

There are enough returning independents who were disgusted with where the party went and former republicans with good hearts who are sick enough of the new world order to make up for the loss of dixiecrats and warmongers.

THANK YOU for your vision!

We're taking our party back. Just like you promised!

Even when we gave up, you persisted.
You turned your back on a lucrative medical practice and a million "lattes" to turn this country around.

THANK YOU DR. DEAN!

The party, under Dean's direction, didn't allow this festering sore to explode like this for no reason.

THANK YOU HOWARD DEAN! WE TOOK OUR PARTY BACK AFTER ALL!

WE STUDIED QUICK, PLAYED THEIR GAME AND WHOOPED THEIR ASS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcUU41zjreM



I dare any morons to read this again and laugh. He/she who laughs last, laughs the BEST!

"Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York!
And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan.
And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House.
Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!"

Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!

[Va Lefty]

1. K & R!

The good Dr. speaks for me!!

[Catherina]

9. I think he speaks for all decent-hearted Americans

This country owes him a damn stamp- at the VERY least.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. Thank YOU, Catherina.

For joining DU at this crucial time. I've enjoyed your posts thus far.

[Catherina]

10. I blush. But thank Dr Dean instead

I was a Kucinich fan in 2000 but after they railroaded his movement, I realized something big was up.

This place if fucking awesome. The Administrators should be proud for their part in changing the political landscape of America because I really believe they have by giving people like us an place where

YES WE CAN!

can't be buried on page F-54.

[Swamp Rat]

3. k&r

[Catherina]

12. Thanks. I'm honored by a K&R from such an influential political artist

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. K&R!

[Catherina]

13. I KNEW California wouldn't let us down!

Thank you! And I KNOW that if the Califoria Primary had been held today, Obama would have won and the ass-kicking would have been even more brutal.

I was in SF last week and ALL you see anywhere are OBAMA 2008 signs.

Thanks California for being such true Dems!

[eridani]

5. 2004 was the beta test of the new melding of the internet and traditional personal contact politics

On to version 1.0!

[Catherina]

14. It's a drastic intersection!

Obama's not our "Savior" but damn it, WE'RE ON A DIFFERENT PATH NOW! Here's to Version 1.0+ and kicking!

[eridani]

18. My favorite quote from the Rolling Stone article

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/obamamachin...

No group represents the campaign machine that Obama has built better than AlamObama. A year ago, the group was nothing more than eight people who attended an informal get-together at a Borders bookstore. Today, it's a 600-member grass-roots outfit — an all-volunteer field operation that hums with the energy and efficiency of a fully staffed campaign office. "In Iowa, the campaign was on the ground for six months," says Judy Hall, a college professor who co-founded the group. "They come here, and it's like they've already been on the ground for six months. Those of us in the grass roots, we simply minded the store.

"Well," she says, reconsidering her words, "I guess we actually built the store — but that's what this campaign is all about."

As Hall's well-honed operation makes clear, the Obama campaign has succeeded not by attracting starry-eyed followers who place their faith in hope but by motivating committed activists who are answering a call to national service. They're pouring their lifeblood into this campaign, not because they are in thrall to a cult of personality but because they're invested in the idea that politics matter, and that their participation can turn the current political system on its ear.

In reality, it already has. "We're seeing the last time a top-down campaign has a chance to win it," says Trippi. "There won't be another campaign that makes the same mistake the Clintons made of being dependent on big donors and insiders. It's not going to work ever again."

[Catherina]

29. Obama is amazing

I can't believe how he pulled all this together and is beating the machine.

Here's to building the store

[Cha]

6. Dean was being prescient as always..

it's just taking awhile longer. A Huge thanks to Dean and madfloridian for keeping us posted. Thanks, Catherina..this is a thread I can get hehind.

[Catherina]

15. Thanks Zidzi

It took a little while longer than I though too but now that I'm weighing pros and cons and looking at historical timelines closely, this is nothing. 4 years? Omg, Dr Dean will go down in history books as a great American. No footnotes as just head of the DNC for him.




Time Magazine once wanted to know who the real Howard Dean was



I think all of America just got its answer

[Cha]

37. America got it's real answer all right..

not the one the m$$$m was always trying to push..that Dean was angry or "osama" cause he didn't want to bomb Iraq like Obama did not want to bomb Iraq.

It's the US m$$$m that needs to extinct.

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!.......... this time his supporters

will win!!!!

[Catherina]

16. This time his supporters win!

Along with all the good Clark, Kucinich, Kerry supporters etc who had a real vision, who had no hate in their hearts...

It's moment!

[XemaSab]

8. K&R

[Catherina]

17. Peace..... Faster than expected ;)

Thank you XemaSab!

[SunsetDreams]

11. K&R

Thank you Howard Dean

[Catherina]

22. Ain't that the truth!

I'm so ashamed to think I distrusted him at first.

I 'bow my head with great respect
And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect'

[boppers]

50. Kicked for an unexpected Lehrer quote! nt

[Scurrilous]

19. K & R

[Catherina]

25. Oh ye luck of the Irish!

Tiny Irish Village Is Latest Place to Claim Obama as Its Own

By Mary Jordan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, May 13, 2007; Page A14

MONEYGALL, Ireland -- Here they call him O'Bama.

Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, Democratic candidate for president, is the talk of this village because recently unearthed records indicate that he is a son of Moneygall.

Stephen Neill, a local Anglican rector, said church documents he has found, along with census, immigration and other records tracked down by U.S. genealogists, appear to show that Obama's great-great-great-grandfather, Fulmuth Kearney, was reared in Moneygall, then left for America in 1850, when he was 19.

...

Kearney sailed to New York aboard the S.S. Marmion at a time when legions of Irish were leaving their famine-stricken island. The shoemaker's son made a life in America, and his family line eventually produced Ann Durham, who was born in Kansas, according to Ancestry.com. The Web site has posted some of Obama's records online.

...

"Sure, it's great!" said Henry Healy, 22, a villager who said family records indicate he is distantly related to Obama. Like many Moneygall residents, he is suddenly following the U.S. presidential race more closely and rooting for his kinsman. "It would be brilliant if he won because for one thing, he is related to me, and also it would be good for the village."

...

In one of the village's two pubs -- which face each other and are owned by different members of the Hayes family -- Julia Hayes offered ham sandwiches and tea to a visitor as the smell of a turf fire filled the cool spring air.

"It's very exciting," she said, noting that local and foreign journalists have started to arrive. "I was hoping Hillary would get in, but now this has come up and I'd love to see him win."

Neill, the rector, said he had found baptismal and other church records related to the Kearney family in old, handwritten books that had been kept in a parishioner's home. Kyle Betit, a U.S. genealogist also involved in the Obama research, said that "many pieces of evidence on both sides of the water" link Obama to Moneygall.

Obama, the only African American in the U.S. Senate, has said about his diverse roots, "I've got pieces of everybody in me." Obama spokesman Bill Burton declined to comment on questions about a Moneygall connection.

...

So many Irish people left their homeland in dire times, Neill said, that it is uplifting to see an emigrant's family faring well. "We like to see people working their way to the top," he said.

...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...




OK, I want to talk about Ireland
Specifically I want to talk about the "famine"
About the fact that there never really was one
There was no "famine"
See Irish people were only allowed to eat potatoes
All of the other food
Meat fish vegetables
Were shipped out of the country under armed guard
To England while the Irish people starved
And then on the middle of all this
They gave us money not to teach our children Irish
And so we lost our history
And this is what I think is still hurting me
See we're like a child that's been battered
Has to drive itself out of it's head because it's frightened
Still feels all the painful feelings
But they lose contact with the memory
And this leads to massive self-destruction
alcoholism, drug adiction
All desperate attempts at running
And in it's worst form
Becomes actual killing
And if there ever is gonna be healing
There has to be remembering
And then grieving
So that there then can be forgiving
There has to be knowledge and understanding
All the lonely people
where do they all come from
An American army regulation Says you mustn't kill more than 10% of a nation
'Cos to do so causes permanent "psychological damage"
It's not permanent but they didn't know that
Anyway during the supposed "famine"
We lost a lot more than 10% of our nation
Through deaths on land or on ships of emigration
But what finally broke us was not starvation
but it's use in the controlling of our education
Schools go on about "Black 47"
On and on about "The terrible famine"
But what they don't say is in truth
There really never was one
(Excuse me)
All the lonely people
(I'm sorry, excuse me)
Where do they all come from
(that I can tell you in one word)
All the lonely people
where do they all belong
So let's take a look shall we
The highest statistics of child abuse in the EEC
And we say we're a Christian country
But we've lost contact with our history
See we used to worship God as a mother
We're sufferin from post traumatic stress disorder
Look at all our old men in the pubs
Look at all our young people on drugs
We used to worship God as a mother
Now look at what we're doing to each other
We've even made killers of ourselves
The most child-like trusting people in the Universe
And this is what's wrong with us
Our history books the parent figures lied to us
I see the Irish
As a race like a child
That got itself basned in the face
And if there ever is gonna be healing
There has to be remembering
And then grieving
So that there then can be forgiving
There has to be knowledge and understanding
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from


Famine - Sinead O'Connor

[WilliamPitt]

20. K&R

[Catherina]

26. Thank you! This one's for you from a strong antiwar feminst

[EFerrari]

21. Howard Dean is the very best thing that has happened to this party

in the last fifty years.

I'd follow him off a cliff.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

24. Fuckin eh!

I don't care how many people bitch about the caucuses. I can tell you from personal experience that people in Red caucus states are excited, for the first time in their lives, about being Democrats.

Thank you Howard Dean!

[Catherina]

27. I'm going to be tacky here ;)

1. First, thank you for the K& R

2. A reality check for the Sour Grapes Brigade (not you of course ) adjusted from a former rant

Caucuses have a specific purpose

The whole point of the primaries is so the party can select the most electable candidate. This is where the rich guys in power give the people a choice in the illusion that we the people have a say in who's running this country by letting us weigh in on who we think is the least objectionable.

With a few caucuses sprinkled here and there, activists who really give a shit about the issues get a strong voice so the party isn't soley relying on people who can be swayed by a gimmicky commercial or two because the other team can write better gimmicky commercials than you think. Is is so unfair to allow the DNC a chance to get a clear picture of what's really happening on the ground by getting input from both passionate activists who'll drop everything to go to caucus and the rest of us 'normal' voters so they can adjust things in time for November?

By combining primaries and caucuses, the DNC gets a pretty balanced picture of how far they can go on which candidate will give US more bang for the buck in the General Election.

[JDPriestly]

23. Dean is doing a great job.

And he is right on Michigan and Florida. Play by the rules or you can't play at all.

[Catherina]

28. Howard Dean fucking rocks right now!

He was good before but right now, HOT DAMN!

[Window]

30. K/R.

[midnight]

31. The Doctor knew that this country needed some help......

Thank you Howard Dean...And thank you to your family for letting you spend so much time trying to bring this country back together, and in the hands of a Demoratic President. I just hope that all the fighing between the last two candidates would just be over.... I wish instead BO would talk about why under his watch and hopefulness we have hundreds of thousands of homeless vets. He sit on the committe for veterans affairs.....He needs to find funds from those allocated for this war, and alocate them to our homeless or he needs to stop voting to fund this war!!!!!

[KaryninMiami]

32. Applause - and thanks, Howard Dean and MadFloridian too! K&R NT

[DinahMoeHum]

33. Three cheers / donkey kicks for Howard Dean !!!

If it were not for Howard Dean and his brother Jim, I would not be giving my hard-earned $$$
on a monthly basis with his "Democracy-Bond" Program to help fund his "50-State Strategy".

Nor, for that matter, to his brother's Democracy For America "DFA Trust"

http://www.democrats.org/democracybonds.html

https://contribute.democracyforamerica.com /

[Blue_Roses]

34. Dean is doing an awesome job!

[madfloridian]

35. Thanks for the link...how did I miss this? Love it.

[Cha]

40. I was looking for you on here...

Thanks, mad..we really do appreciate everything you've done.

[crispini]

36. Yeeeeeaaaaaargh! indeed!

[sonias]

38. Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!

50 State Strategy!!

Thank you Dr. Dean - From the bottom of our hearts in Texas!



Sonia

[mod mom]

39. THANK YOU BOTH! rec'd

[VolcanoJen]

41. YeeeeaaaaaaaaarrrRRGGGHHH!!!!!

Dr. Dean!!

[eissa]

42. As a former Deanie

Three cheers for my guy!! WOO-HOO!!!

Before the attacks start, let me be clear -- MI and FL should definitely be heard. It is a shame if they aren't. BUT changing the rules now is almost like giving in to a kid during a tantrum. They knew the rules, they gave the DNC the finger, and now they want the DNC and the campaigns to pay for their screw up.

[MelissaB]

43. Oh, hell yeah!

& R

[Thurston Howell III]

44. YYYYYYEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

K&R

[sudopod]

45. If I were Howard Dean

it would be hard not to crow about being right after all in January 2009. ^_^

[JNelson6563]

46. Howard Dean will fuck your shit up

6/09/2005 Howard Dean Will Fuck Your Shit Up (Redux):

The Rude Pundit's said it before and he'll say it again: Howard Dean will fuck your shit up. Stand that motherfucker up at the gates of hell. Let that son of a bitch loose in the dainty Democratic china shop and let's break some fuckin' dishes. Howard Dean knows the score, man; he knows that the faithful, those who actually believe that the fight is not the path to surrender, want a spokesperson who's willing to pick up the unpinned grenade that just landed near him and shove it up the ass of the enemy who tossed it. Goddamn, it would have been magnificent to have seen him debate the President. On stage, Bush would have been begging for the privilege to lick the sweat off Dean's balls.

Listen to the crowd at the Take Back America conference last week, who are almost orgasmically gasping in joy at the viciousness with which Dean attacked the Republicans, calling them the party of people "who never made an honest living in their lives," with a "dark, difficult, dishonest vision" of America. Then, in an effort to clarify his remarks this past Monday in a talk with minority journalists, Dean said the Republicans are "not very friendly to different kinds of people. They're a pretty monolithic party. They pretty much--they all behave the same and they all look the same, and they all--you know, it's pretty much a white, Christian party. And the Democrats here adopt everybody you can think of in our party."

Challenged on the Today show yesterday by Matt "Behold My Stubbly Mane That Indicates I Am a Grown-Up" Lauer, Dean picked up Lauer, slammed him on the faux coffee table and whispered, calmly, in Lauer's ear that Democrats are tired of being the bottoms of the political fuck machine. He said, "They have the agenda of the conservative Christians...the Republicans don't include people. Look, they are outside the mainstream." And Dean wasn't afraid to invoke truly inclusive Democratic ideas: "They have used words like quota to try to separate black from white Americans. They did scapegoat gay Americans by putting an anti-gay amendment on it--in 11 states where gay marriage is already against the law. And they are attacking immigrants. Two--two Republican congressmen, Jim Sensenbrenner and Tom Tancredo, have incredible anti-immigrant legislation. This is not the way America needs to be." Calling out motherfuckers for fucking their mothers is as brutally truthful as politics gets.

< snip >

This manufactured uproar over Dean all started in earnest (this time) with his appearance on Meet the Press on May 22, where, in so many words, Dean said, "Republicans are vile cocksuckers who deserve nothing less than to be shit on by legions of diarrhea-ridden cows. They have fucked up the Congress, the Presidency, the judiciary, and the world. Now why should I play nice with those goddamn evil powermad assholes like Tom DeLay?" And then the fun started, with Bill O'Reilly, who really ought to be sodomized with a microphone, vomiting out that Howard Dean was "a bitter and increasingly incoherent man." Last night, O'Reilly attacked Dean again, saying he was "nonsensical." But, of course, O'Reilly also was begging Dean to come on his show. Because, you see, Bill O'Reilly is a five-buck-a-blow whore.

Methinks the rude one loves Dean too.

Julie

[boppers]

51. Dear sir/madam, I find the excessive swearing and angry invective in your post...

...relevant to my interests.

[progressoid]

47. I'll drink to that.

[IamyourTVandIownyou]

48. Error: You've already recommended that thread.

yyr!

[Lugnut]

49. Yeeeaaarrrggghhh!

K&R for Dr Dean!