Howard Dean's favorite song

[LastDemInIdaho]

Jaspora by Wyclef Jean...

Ever since I was little, I left Haiti
There's some that went to Brooklyn there's some that
went to Miami
Why do Jamaicans always say they are Jamaicans,
But Haitians are afraid to say they are Haitians?
Why? Are you scared to say your name is Samuel?
Why? Are you scared to say you're with Israel?
Why? Every night you are sleeping with Jezebel!
You're scared to say Haitian girls are beautiful!
Beautiful girls are beautiful...

I respect your name just like I respect the angel
Gabriel
Here, Diaspora men want to take you to hotels,
Start talking English, turning to playboy channel
They do not respect Israel.

Diaspora do not respect Diaspora
If you are a Diaspora I am going to give you to sharks
Diaspora do not respect Diaspora
If you are a Diaspora tonight we're going to disarm
you

Diaspora ha ha o, put your hands up!
I am going to take them and throw them in prison
I will make them know who is Toussaint
I will make them know who is Dessalines
After, we will let them go and send them back to
Brooklyn
So he could go to his mother who is cooking in the
kitchen
His mom looked at him and said "Man, you've changed"
She said I changed because I am Haitian
They taught me a lesson, they put me in prison.

I see Diaspora women and Diaspora men
There are people who are not going to make it because
they will sleep with the fishes
They lost their knowledge just like a priest without
religion

Diaspora do not respect Diaspora
If you are a Diaspora I am going to give you to sharks
Diaspora do not respect Diaspora
If you are a Diaspora tonight were going to disarm you

Port-au-Prince do not respect Diaspora again
Men Flatbush do not respect Diaspora
Men Canada do not respect Diaspora
Men Miami do not respect Diaspora

Pa Kayos do not respect diaspora
Papa Djoume do not respect Diaspora
Refugees do not respect Diaspora
Men Florida do not respect Diaspora
Wrong things done are going to finish worse
If you disrespect native-born
Done wrong things are going to finish worse
Disrespect Haitians you will get hit...

Jaspora has to respect Jaspora

[w4rma]

1. Background

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Later, Dean noted that his son, Paul, would have liked his choice of Jaspora by Wyclef Jean as his (Dean’s) favorite song. However, from the phone conversation with home it appears that Wyclef has yet to penetrate deep into the Dean household, the governor stating, “You don’t know who he is? He is a big favorite of Paul’s,” to his wife. (As to why Jaspora was selected as his favorite, Dean said he has more than one favorite song, this particular tune just jumped to the forefront. Could it be the CDs the kids leave behind in the car?)
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/958689.asp

[Cha]

2. Thanks for that! After all the people were accusing Dean of

not really having that for a favorite song I was curious to hear more about it.

Did that writer listen to Dean's phone conversation?

[w4rma]

4. Felix Schein is the Dean campaign embedded journalist for MSNBC

Here is the whole excerpt from that entry. Although Schein doesn't specifically say he was in the room, it sounds to me like Schein was in the room (and taking notes) with Dean during his phone conversation with his wife.

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THE TRUE JUDGE

Dean, who claims to call his wife every evening, made a heartfelt post-debate call home. In it he asked Mrs. Steinberg who had won the debate and a few other questions. Excerpts from the conversation follow.

“Hello my dear. Good, good. What did you think about the end? Yea. I just wanted to (interrupted), why, why just out of curiosity? Yea, right. It was about defense and restoring honor and dignity to the United States. Uh huh. Ahh. Yea, ok. Yea. Ok, that is a good thing to do. Uh huh. Ahh. Oh my goodness. Ah. Good. Who did the best? That is what I thought too, that is what I thought too. Yea. Yea.” (Could it be the governor came in second?)

Later, Dean noted that his son, Paul, would have liked his choice of Jaspora by Wyclef Jean as his (Dean’s) favorite song. However, from the phone conversation with home it appears that Wyclef has yet to penetrate deep into the Dean household, the governor stating, “You don’t know who he is? He is a big favorite of Paul’s,” to his wife. (As to why Jaspora was selected as his favorite, Dean said he has more than one favorite song, this particular tune just jumped to the forefront. Could it be the CDs the kids leave behind in the car?)

For the romantics in the crowd, Dean signed off saying “alright my sweet.”
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/958689.asp

[pruner]

5. thanks for the link

n/t

[bearfartinthewoods]

8. previous discussion link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=320397

[toddzilla]

3. did anyone notice

how badly gephardt (i think) bombed when he said "born in the usa" was his favorite song..

there was this silence in the crowd over a really obviously contrived choice..


sharpton's was hilarious as usual..

[greyl]

6. What was Sharpton's please? nt

[Kahuna]

7. Talking Loud and Saying Nothing..by James Brown...

He dedicated this song to the rethugs. :D

[greyl]

9. Haha, thanks :)

Good ole Al.