Reply #38: Dean:"never been in doubt about.. the necessity..." [View All]

[Feanorcurufinwe]

Standing with the President: "never been in doubt about the evil of Saddam Hussein or the necessity of removing his weapons of mass destruction." http://blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/000395.html


Mental health: Dean's all-or-nothing approach made him want to unrealistically close Vermont's state mental hospital altogether. Despite the good that was achieved in moving most patients to community-based treatment, the patients that didn't fit Dean's model of what a mental patient should be like, have been sadly neglected. Poor planning, and inflexibility led to a missed opportunity to give these patients the proper care.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2003/10/20/mental_breakdown/

Environment: where do I begin... Dean's overall record has been abysmal... from promoting a coal-fired power plant, to promoting factory farms over family farms, to "an inappropriate coziness with the utilities", which led to, among other things, a push for deregulation and turning a blind eye to nuclear safety, to the policies that led one environmentalist to say EP under Governor Dean means Expedite Permits, not Environmental Protection, Dean's environmental record is mixed at best. To his credit, with the help of his buddies in the NRA, Dean was able to get a lot of land protected.