Reply #1: Where was the "I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK" ??

[Eloriel]

Wasn't that in that same speech? I'm confused.

BUT, look at this -- I've been telling people that Dean had been making that Confederate Flag remark for many months before Sharpton and Edwards ganged up on him in that debate and made it a racist problem:

I intend to talk about race during this election in the South, because the Republicans have been talking about it since 1968 in order to divide us, and I'm going to bring us together, because you know what, you know what? White folks in the South who drive pick ups with Confederate flag decals on the back ought to be voting with us and not them because their kids don't have health insurance and their kids need better schools too. .

CHEERS, APPLAUSE. People understood what he meant, and believe me, there were plenty of African Americans in that audience cheering and applauding.

And btw, when he DID come South -- I saw him in August of 2003 in Atlanta, and he'd been to AL before that and who knows where before that -- he most certainly DID talk about race. He spoke about it in such a way that brought tears to my eyes. It was very moving, and very profound. I wish I could hear him give that part of his speech again. Perhaps I will some day.