Reply #184: I was offended when I first heard Dean say it in February. [View All]

[DemBones DemBones]

I don't need a candidate or a candidate's blog to tell me what to think.

I was surprised that the issue died with little controversay, but people were distracted by impending war. And Howard has a problem with "misspeaking" so I didn't make an issue of it at the time. Until his recent comment appeared in the Des Moines Register, I didn't realize that he had been repeating his damn fool statement in speeches ever since. I learned that here from his zealous supporters who couldn't understand why he was being called to task now when he'd been saying it in speeches for months. The answer is that most people aren't following his campaign the way zealous supporters are and that the media gives Dean a lot of attention, rarely any attention to his faults. This time it made the papers.

The way the corporate-controlled media has boosted his campaign is proof to me that a Dean administration would be more of the same that we've been seeing -- pamper the big boys and screw the rest of us. But he'd tell us "You have the power!" Sorry, I'm not buying that.