Acknowledging the obsession is the first stage to recovery.
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Agreed, Pogue.
Unfortunately, those most in need of recovery (the national party) are still in total denial. That the state parties are distancing themselves should be a 15 MT wakeup call to the national committee. Still, nobody home. |
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Howard Dean has a lot to say about his recent tour right here.
I wish he would shut up. |
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Alexander Alt
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Alexander Alt: That is NOT Howard Dean’s BLOG! It’s a phony blog written by the rightwing. Geez! |
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The material you cited above came from the only negative print of Dean at the Durham State of the Union Event. The column was published on Thursday, February 2, 2006, by Scott Sexton in the Winston Salem Journal. He certainly did not talk to the host of the Durham State of the Union Watch Party which you would think he wold do if he cared to print facts.
The facts are the party in Durham was a local event hosted by this writer and cosponsored by the 8th and 9th democratic precincts in Durham. We did not learn that Dean was coming to our event until midday Friday. The event was only printed in the Herald Sun newspaper the morning of the event with this writer’s comments reflected as follows “Local activists are discouraging drop-ins by the general public because the number of advance sign-ups for an event that’s doubling as a fundraiser and "watch party" for the State of the
Union address was already close to the combined capacity of the two restaurants, Durham Precinct 9 Chairman Troy McLean said.” The RSVP list was closed early Monday as this writer was starting to get a RSVP about every three minutes. The web site early Monday was also posted that the event was full. The bottom line is this event filled by word of mouth and email. This State of the Union Watch Party with Dean’s appearance filled four eating establishments on Main St in Durham to capacity. We were active in attempting to slow the growth of the number of people who were coming to the event and still some people were turn away. If we had a venue that could have handled 10,000 people there would have been 10,000 enthusiastic Dean Supporters in Durham.
For your information ABC, CNN where at the event. Dean was also scheduled to be interviewed by Brian Williams with NBC at a separate house party in Durham following the State of the Union Address and the democratic response but instead was moved to MSNBC for NBC scheduling reasons. Dean I believe came to Durham, North Carolina (A Red State) in an effort to demonstrate a commitment to the grassroots to win in every precinct in every state.
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I wish that people (Republicans and Democrats) stopped talking about politics as if it were a Hollywood party, focusing on personalities and old clichés. Enough already! Howard Dean energized a party that was close to rigor mortis, period. Let’s see what we Democrats can do this time.
And let’s hope that serious talk about issues starts replacing the chatter about Hillary and Condi and Dean and on and on. The country is sinking, the Middle East and New Orleans are still disaster areas, and the future is not rosy. We need to be united and get to work.
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Let me get this straight. Howard Dean should have been in DC with the crooks and liars instead of party building out with the troops? I live in Durham, the place he was visiting on SOTU night. And this town couldn’t have been happier, no matter what some Republican curmudgeon from Winston-Salem thinks. I’m from Winston-Salem originally. I grew up with that paper, The Journal. And it’s a miserable fish wrapper.
The whole street was blocked off for Dean’s appearance in Durham and there was a mob trying to get in to see Dean. Sheesh. We’re also very happy that he is spending our DNC contributions in a way that makes sense: building local party organizations. He’s the first DNC chair to pay attention to the local organizations the party is founded on. And yeah, true belieivers and new believers love him for it.
Keep blowing your nose about Howard Dean. It makes everyone wonder what it is you are so afraid of that you have to slam a guy who takes his time to come out to little old Durham and make a bunch of people happy. Bush gives a speech that his handlers have to backtrack on within twenty-four hours, but all you’ve got his how the DNC chair was out giving support to the rank and file Democrats watching that speech. Lordy. I guess it’s true. *Anybody* can have a blog. |
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