Interview with Dean in the June Progressive magazine. Election concerns.

[madfloridian]

http://www.progressive.org/june04/intv0604.html

SNIP..."Q: Can any candidate tell the truth on a controversial topic like the capture of Saddam Hussein and not get burned?

Dean: I don't really think that hurt me all that much. Most people in America knew it was true. I think the media is very much like the inside-the-Beltway crowd. They're not average Americans themselves. They're under a lot of pressure from editors and publishers. And I don't think they relate to most ordinary people. When I said that I didn't think the capture of Saddam Hussein made us any safer, though I congratulated the troops for doing it, average Americans thought to themselves, yeah, that's probably right. And certainly two weeks later they certainly thought that was right since we had just lost an additional thirty troops."

SNIP..."Q: Or they've got to think it's right now.

Dean: Yeah, I think they do."

SNIP..."Q: People often ask me, "Will Bush give up power if he loses?" Do you have any fear that he would not go quietly?

Dean: My biggest fear is that the election will be stolen again as it was in Florida by the elimination of large numbers of the African American community from the voter rolls by a private company contracting with the state. The election was clearly not won by George Bush in Florida, and then the Supreme Court put politics above loyalty to the country. So that's my greatest fear: not that George Bush won't go quietly according to the law, but that before the law gets enforced there will be a great deal of fiddling with it."

[physioex]

1. Glad to see a Progressive fan...

Yea I listen to Matt Rothschild two minute op-ed everyday and I really enjoy.

[denverbill]

2. I've never heard another national Democratic leader talk so boldly.

Keep it up Howard!

[madfloridian]

4. That needed to be said about the elections, I think. LIke an alert.

:hi:

[Lugnut]

3. I hope Dr. Dean never shuts up.

snip....

"Q: What do you make of the way the press treated you?

Dean: I think the press in general is a failed institution in this country. For two reasons. This has nothing to do with the race. I'm not sure it would have made any difference. But the biggest problem with the media is first that 90 percent of Americans get their news from eleven corporations so that the loyalty in the editorial staff and higher up is principally to the shareholders rather than to the public. And the second problem is that entertainment has supplanted news value."

[w13rd0]

5. THAT is why my Dean sticker stays unaccompanied on my bumper...

...until the convention. Then I'll put a Kerry one on beside it.

[bitchkitty]

6. Perfectly illustrates

why I love Howard Dean so very much!

[nomaco-10]

7. I don't know when in this nation's history....

we have been more in need of a Howard Dean at the helm.

I'm over the primaries, but I'll never get over this country turning their back on such a brilliant man made to order for these troubled times, possessing the keen skills of a problem solver and the great intellect and reason that could have restored sanity and rationality to this country and the rest of the globe. What a pity.

[KittyWampus]

8. Really Good Interview... How About Posting In GD Forum Also?

though it might interfere with the "White Chair" threads. :)

More people gravitate towards GD.

[LizW]

9. God, I love Howard Dean!

Every time I think of what could have been I want to go off on a crying jag like Diane Keaton in "Something's Gotta Give"! :cry:

10. Dean is my President, even as I vote for Kerry

Dean is the man. I hereby implore whatever higher power runs this show: "Please! Send us more like Dean! We'll listen to them, REALLY!"

[madfloridian]

11. Here is more on what Florida is doing now. Purging without reinstating.

Howard Dean and others need to keep this right up in the news.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0510-10.htm
SNIP..."WASHINGTON - May 10 - In the wake of the Florida Secretary of State’s order to evaluate as many as 40,000 “potential felon matches” to determine if they should be removed from the voting rolls, People For the American Way Foundation (PFAWF) announced plans to contact county election officials to head off the massive voter disenfranchisement caused by a similar voter purge during the 2000 election fiasco.

“Here we go again. Why the rush to take more people off of the voting rolls when people who should not have been removed in 1999 and 2000 haven’t yet been reinstated?” asked Ralph G. Neas, President of the People For the American Way Foundation. “We want to make every effort to independently reach out to these voters, and do all we can to make sure that if they have the right to vote, they can vote in 2004.”

SNIP..."“Even before they have corrected the mistakes of four years ago, before they have restored the rights to the people who were wronged in 2000, they’re starting this process yet again,” Neas said. “It’s mind-boggling.”END SNIP