Reply #7: Perhaps Dean didn't use the best analogy but I think what [View All]

[ikojo]

he was saying is that working people of all races need to come together. I also took it to mean that the guy who has a confederate flag on his truck (a stereotype by the way) is voting against his class interests when he votes Republican. He did not in any way imply that the Dems must take on the race baiting politics of the pugs. He simply said that the Dem message is one that this guy should hear and heed. When I heard him say it on C-SPAN I took it more as a criticism of the guy with the confederate flag on his truck rather than an endorsement of the flag.

He also acknowledged that there were many whites, like blacks, who are suffering under the Bush regime. If these whites who support the flying of the confederate flag looked beyond that then they would see that Dems tend to support working people more than the pugs.