Two bloggers are posting about it at Kos, will link to both.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/10/111857/408"Simon Rosenberg is introducing Howard Dean with what he sees are the three most important things Dean has introduced to politics: getting past tarmac hits and tv spots to build a grassroots national campaign, the 50 State Strategy, and teaching people not to be satisfied.
The Bush impersonator beforehand was great -- Rosenberg gets to tell his children he spoke between Bush and Dean.
Our challenge and opportunity: new media landscape, new agenda, new demographics. The Democratic Party built the New Deal on this, we can do it again. We need to united the entire progressive movement.
Dean gets an extended standing ovation. "What Simon said (ha ha) this is not an individual effort; this is a collective effort."
And another diary blogging the speech, with most of the transcript:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/10/112214/777When I lost the primary in 2004, a lot of young people were disappointed. The advantage of being 50 is that you cdan look backward as well as forward; and I understood that in order to take back America for American values, it’s a daily fight. That’s what the right wing did. They did it for 30 years.
I love the Democratic Party. But this isn’t about the Democratic Party; it’s about the United States of America. And the Democratic Party is merely a vehicle.
But this is a tough fight. Those guys win elections by scapegoating. We won’t do that, because it’s not in the interests of America. And that’s the difference between us: they will put their interests before the interests of the United States of America, and we will not do that. HUGE APPLAUSE
This is the new town meeting—except this is the town meeting where everyone gets to speak, not just the people that the President wants to let in. And we have an entire department at the DNC who sits there reading you and what you have to say. This is how to take back America—working to support the people who work everyday to take back this country: by encouraging community participation—and by throwing out the trolls on your blogs who aren’t helping.
This is an important statement:
"The people in this room have the responsibility for leading this revolution. But the perspective I want to leave you with is this: there will be things within the tent that we disagree with. We’re not a healthy movement if we don’t have those disagreement. But healthy movements managed to maintain their effectiveness in spite of disagreements; the unhealthy ones succumbed to personal disagreements and backbiting."