Do you want Howard Dean for president? Found from Jaws Blog, a Matt Drudge report on Howard Dean appearing in Hardball with Chris Matthews:
“The essence of capitalism, which the right-wing never understands — it always baffles me — is, you got to have some rules,” Dean explained to Matthews and students at Harvard.
MATTHEWS: Well, would you break up GE?
(APPLAUSE)
DEAN: I can’t — you…
MATTHEWS: GE just buys Universal. Would you do something there about that? Would you stop that from happening?
DEAN: You can’t say — you can’t ask me right now and get an answer, would I break up X corp…
MATTHEWS: We’ve got to do it now, because now is the only chance we can ask you, because, once you are in, we have got to live with you.
(LAUGHTER)
DEAN: No. [Emphasis added - ed.]
The concept of a state-run economy can be so… novel, ya think?
In more de-feathering of Dean, Matt Stinson maturely goes beyond the mention of the Soviet Union and actually analyzes his foreign policy towards Iran. In the immortal words of those who have nothing more to add, I say: Thanks for sharing!
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No, I don’t want Howard Dean for President.
Comment by mog — Dec 2, 2003 @ 5:12 pm
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No. There are some of us in Vermont who already know too well that one’s being a big fish in the small political pond is one thing, but being that it does not mean that particular fish can cut it in the much bigger ocean of International or even national politics.
Howard Dean may want the Presidency, but it does not mean he deserves it. This is not to say that he is a bad person or anything like that sort, as he is not in my opinion. However not all of us in Vermont thought much of him as our Governor and his record is not as good as he tries to say it is either. There is of course a whole another side to what he trys to sell to the nation as his great achievements. And it not only Republicans, disenfranchised liberals or other groups that feel and think so either for that matter.
Some of us are just plain old citizens, who only ask people out there to recognise that there certainly are some tough questions that need to be asked, and then answered, of him and all of the other candidates.
The fact is that there are other Independent voters out there like myself who will not vote for either Howard Dean or George Bush if that is whom their respective Party’s nominate as their candidate for the 2004 Presidential race. Some of us will end up staying home, not a prospect some of us like, but it is not much of a choice.
Not all of us will just go lock step with Dean, solely because we are expected to by certain Democratics whom seem to think we have no other choice. It would be the Democrat’s fault, not ours, it is their Party and candidate, not ours.
Some of us will not just accept the lessor evil with the mindset of anything is better than Bush, because we can and must do better than that.
Speaking for myself anyway, this is the last remaining option I will have available to me, and if it comes down to it, the only one I will consider.
Comment by Sean E. Charcot — Dec 4, 2003 @ 2:29 pm