Reply #24: No, I'm agreeing with what Clinton said. [View All]

[Toucano]

I don't agree with how it was twisted to appear to be an indictment against Dean in particular, but from your link:

"The Times picked up this quote: "But I don't believe that either side should be saying, 'I'm a real Democrat and the other one's not,' or, 'I'm a winning Democrat and the other one's not.'" The Times account suggested that this was an implicit slam of Howard Dean.

Here's the whole context: I asked Clinton about the schism within the Democratic Party. I said to him that sometimes the arguments between the liberals and the centrists had taken on a tone of not mere disagreement but of mockery. "And this has happened," I said, "more from the centrists toward the liberals than the other way around," at which point he cut me off and said, "Yeah, and I think it's a big mistake."

So Clinton did admonish that tactic.

It was wrong for me to get into the "who started it" argument because that serves no purpose. The strategy is bad, Big Dog said so, and I am agreeing with him.