Something to inspire you.

[madfloridian]

I have not visited Mathew Gross's blog much for a while, but he has a very special review of Dean's book, You Have the Power. I guess there is just something in the former Deaniacs and staffers that just doesn't die. Our group here was talking of that one day.

http://mathewgross.com/blog/archives/cat_the_dean_campaign.html

SNIP.."Long ago, in that dim primordial swamp of the mid-Holoscene epoch (March, 2003, to be specific), the Democratic Party had only one real voice of hope-- and that voice was Howard Dean.
Of course, the pundits didn't believe Howard Dean was the voice of anyone, except for a few loony Birkenstocked anti-war liberals and (as spring sprung that year) a handful of geeks on the Internet. The same pundits who today tell us that John Kerry's vote for the use of force in Iraq is an intensely problematic obstacle in his race against President Bush were declaring, in those heady days of Shock and Awe and 90-percent approval ratings (MOST POPULAR PRESIDENT EVER!, screamed Drudge), that Howard Dean's opposition to the war made him a dead-from-the-start candidate.

I don't need to tell you what happened next. The rise, the fall, etcetera, etcetera. That's the way it goes in politics: candidates come and go, parties sieze and lose power-- but the pundits stay the same.

Nonetheless, for those of us who were there-- which includes most of the lefty blogosphere, and a few hundred thousand others-- Dean's new book provides more than just a pleasant walk down memory lane. It's a reminder of what it is we were fighting for-- and a reminder that the fight is far from over....."

SNIP..."Will the book be read by people other than wistful Deaniacs? I don't know. What I do know is that the message (and the messenger) that caused me to pick up one day and leave Utah for Burlington still rings true. And that message was never just about the war, or about fiscal responsibility, or about protecting the environment or taking a sensible approach to gun control or providing health care for all Americans. It was about all those things, yes, but it was also about something else: it was about each of us taking responsibility for the direction of the country, and taking action to fulfill that responsibility...."

[mandyky]

1. Matthew Large rides again! LOL

Remember that?
I'll have to add his site to my regularly read list of blogs and sites!

[madfloridian]

2. Don't remember that. Matthew Large?

I remember he stayed with Trippi a while after Dean dropped out....as did several other staffers. He was really devoted, I remember.

[mandyky]

3. Reference to a German language article

They called him Mathew Large due to translation (Gross to Large).

[madfloridian]

4. LOL, I do remember something about that.

Yes, I do.

[mandyky]

5. Seems Matthew was quite quoted in Foreign press

since he was blogging A LOT!!