posted on January 4, 2004 10:36:22 AM new
Dear Mr. Dean
If you morph into a TV preacher instead of a reserved New Englander to appeal to the Southern vote how can we be sure any of your masks are the real Dean?
posted on January 4, 2004 10:57:34 AM new
I hate it when people aren't comfortable enough to be who they really are and have to re-invent themselves because they think it will make other people like them more. It only serves to make you look ridiculous and unbelievable. In the end, the real you tends to shine through.
posted on January 4, 2004 06:27:12 PM new
Rather like the way the President's twang gets a bit twangier when he's talking to GI's and southerners. Clinton did it too as I recall. They're all actors of one sort or another.
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The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then gets elected and proves it.
-- P. J. ORourke (Holidays in hell, 1989)
posted on January 4, 2004 07:35:12 PM new
profe - At least clinton actually *attended* church....unlike dean. Just another Dean 'farce'. Another mask.
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Dean's been caught in so may 'mistatements' it's becoming funny reading.
He's not just wearing a mask...he's a liar too.
The Southerners aren't going to be fooled by this 'I'm finding religion' when I start stumping in the South. They know a sham when they see one.
Here's a little of a recent 'lie' for those who don't want to register with the NYT.
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Dean Rebuked for Statement Implying Brother Served in Military
By JODI WILGOREN
Published: December 23, 2003
Presidential Elections (US)
Democratic Party
Iowa
EMBROKE, N.H., Dec. 22 — Howard Dean came under criticism from an Iowa newspaper last weekend for an answer to a questionnaire in which he implied that his brother was serving in the military when he disappeared in Laos 29 years ago. His brother had been traveling in Southeast Asia as a **tourist**.
Asked by The Quad-City Times, which is based in Davenport, Iowa, to complete the sentence "My closest living relative in the armed services is," Dr. Dean wrote in August, "My brother is a POW/MIA in Laos, but is almost certainly dead."
The brother, 23-year-old Charles Dean, whose apparent remains were recovered by a military search team last month in Laos, was classified as missing in action, along with other civilians captured or killed in the area during the Vietnam War. But Charles Dean never wore a uniform, and while some family members at times suspected that he was working as a spy, Dr. Dean said he never believed that.
His answer to the newspaper's question, published on Dec. 14 as part of a regular feature on The Quad-City [i]Mark Ridolfi, editor of the paper's editorial page, noted that the question had specifically asked about the armed services and said of Dr. Dean's reply, "It certainly is not an accurate response."
Mr. Ridolfi said the question, one of 20 that the candidates answered in writing in August, was intended to get at candidates' personal connections to the military. "When you have a family member currently involved in the military," he said, "you think of things differently."
After hearing Dr. Dean's explanation during a meeting at the newspaper's office on Friday, Mr. Ridolfi ran an editorial in Sunday's editions describing Dr. Dean's original answer as "unusually revealing."
"Charlie Dean's capture and death in Southeast Asia certainly shaped his brother's opinion about the American military," read the editorial, which pointed out that the younger Dean opposed the Vietnam War, worked on George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign and visited Laos during a yearlong trip around the world.
"Knowing that story tells us something about the candidate," it continued. "So does inaccurately implying a direct family connection to the armed services for the 72,000 Quad Citians who received Sunday's newspaper."
posted on January 4, 2004 09:09:45 PM new
Just reading the MSNBC news and read this statement. This really cracked me up. Can you imagine someone like James Carville saying this about any democrat?
"I think the guy has mad-mouth disease," said James Carville, Bill Clinton's former top political adviser and dean of the "Stop Dean" spinners.
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