Reply #40: This is priceless

[beaconess]

You insist that Dean is doing so much about affirmative action, yet can't name a single thing. So then you change your tack to demanding that I tell you what Dean should have done.

And yes, I think that Dean DOES have an affirmative action problem in Vermont. His complete failure to do anything to diversify his cabinet (other than, as far as I can tell, offer a job to one minority in 12 years) shows that either he wasn't interested in affirmative action or didn't understand its importance and how to make it work. The lame excuse that it was too hard to find any qualified minorities doesn't fly since that's precisely the kind of excuse that everybody uses to justify failure to diversify their workplaces.

I'll let you in on a little secret. Creating diversity is not easy. Like baseball, it's hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it and there'd be no need for affirmative action. Affirmative action takes some effort. And anyone who had the chance to actually put it into effect, but didn't do it because it would have been too hard certainly does not have the credibility to hold himself up as a great leader on affirmative action.