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I'm sure few Dean supporters will be able to handle the truth, I'm about to present. Don't even try to catch this one, I'm going to hit it out of the park.
Indeed, the batters that make such bold boasts tend to strike out when next up at bat. I suspect that there shall be no joy in Clarkvill today, for the mighty SEAburb shall have struck out.
I'm sure the Dean team performed lots of research and focus groups to help them construct their message for southern whites. In constructing this message the 'centerpiece phrase' became the phrase "I want to be the leader of the guys with Confederate flags on their bumpers."
With such a bold claim, one should first do there home work, for Dean has said no such thing. He said that he wants there votes. Your distortion did not go unnoticed. That is strike one.
And the logic behind the use of this 'centerpiece phrase' was that the Confederate flag links the most southern whites together behind a single issue. It is the most powerful and emotional issue in the south.
So the 'centerpiece phrase' became the hook for Dean to connect with southern whites. Dean knew and hoped it would lead southern whites to believe he supported the Confederate Flag issue. Just like Bush used Saddam and 9/11 together to make people believe Saddam was behind 9/11, Dean was using the 'centerpiece phrase' to lead southern whites to believe he supported the Confederate flag, without saying as much.
Dean argues that democrats better serve the interests of poor white southern, by working to help them provide education and health care. And that in serving the interests of the poor, such as by public education and by providing health care, is the means by which we will win there votes.
He also argues that this is a far better strategy to win elections that through passive aggressive strategies such as what Clark is counting on to win the South. Whose entire strategy can be summed us as thus; "I am a model of a major modern military general. I have information of animal, mineral, and vegetable. I have knowledge on all things categorical. Because I am the model of a major modern general."
Dean only made a reference to decal sticker on a 4x4 bumper, in order to press his points above. Any other argument, is a deliberate attempt to take Dean's comments out of context. But while Dean is talking about education and healthcare, it is you, not Dean, who would make the argument Dean's argument is some linked to racism, by that bumper decal. It's a ridiculous argument two weeks ago when it was coined. Today, it is nothing more than a pathetic smear that has lost its power. That would be strike two.
The fact that Dean doesn't support the Confederate flag issue, but concocted a scheme that would lead southern whites to believe he did, shows he was pandering. Plus by disregarding the racist symbolism of the Confederate flag, because his message was directed at southern whites adds to the case.
It would be a sound argument, if it wasn't for the Dean supporters who I am sure have repeatedly tried to correct your distortion. Dean made no overtures to racist, neither real, nor implied. So it is unfair you to try and hang Dean for an "unspoken lie." That would be strike three, and you are out. It is now time for you to go kick sand in the umps face as I am sure you shall not take this well.
Now Dean has exposed himself as an unprincipled man, who will say anything to a given group to win the Dem nomination.
What has been exposed here, is the measure of Clarks "new American patriotism." He only wishes to supplant Bush's standard of loyalty, with his own. Regardless, this new standard is equally rapped in the flag as any thing Bush would offer. And those who do not measure up to Clark's perceived "liberal and progressive standards" need not apply, for the tent has no room for them.
Just as Clark himself, and his campaign, every thing is so steeped in symbolism as to render them meanness. So to is this confederate flag argument founded on graven idols embedded with meanings and powers that the substance doses not warrant. Hatred doses not reside within the confederate flag, any more than the devil resides in the dice. Nor shall you find benevolence and honor dwelling within the Star Spangled Banner. Hatred and racism flows not from cloth, no mater there pattern or color, but in fact flows from the human heart. And it is there that hatred must be fought. While a benevolent spirit may meet friend or foe upon the road, the malevolent one shall only meet enemies no mater where they go.
Your objection comes from the observation that Dean did not spurn racism and those who hold raciest view points. Your anger comes from the fact that Dean has not persecuted the persecutors. As I have said before, Dean made no mention of racism, but in fact focused on economic liberty. As far as this speech is concerned, Dean is ambivalent to the issue, and indeed, the case could be made that Dean's campaign has made little issue of racial issues in general.
One source of racial tension comes from the lack of opportunities. When unemployment is high, the Whites shall charge that the Blacks are taking there jobs away, and the Blacks shall make the same charge of the whites. The Republicans have chosen the strategy of siding with the Whites. Clark has chosen to side with the Blacks. Thus, establishing an us vs them mentality. And as you well know, all those who are not with us, are against us. All you have seen, and all you chose to see, is that Clark has declined to join the Blacks over Whites camp.
But what you do not comprehend, is the fact that Dean has deliberate chosen not to play the opposite of the Republicans race card. While you might argue Dean has not joined the Black over Whites camp, you chose not to see the fact that Dean has also not joined the Whites over Black camp. But such thinking is outside the simple binary political model conceived by the DLC Democrats and Clark, and thus outside the boundaries of comprehension. For many Democrats to under stand this, one may as well try to explain electricity to a bird, or a window to a fly.
And in so doing, Dean now has the power to change the subject. He can not bring us such issues as economic liberty, and begin explaining to the disenfranchised why it is that there fait seems to be sealed by poverty, while there leaders frolic in extreme wealth taken from the public treasury. Dean can now explain that there jobs are now held by slaves in other countries, and how their suns and brothers must go and fight wars to defend the profitability of corporations such as Haliberton.
Dean is hardly the first one to raise this issue. Dr. Martian Luther King Jr. came to this epiphany shortly before he was assassinated. We have all heard his "I have a dream" speech, but few have heard his last speech damming the war in Vietnam. And where racism seems to benefit the Republicans and the Democrats, by splitting the people by the color of there skin. A true understanding of liberty would surly produce the crises of Democracy that both parties would fear, for no longer would the people bow to the King, be he malevolent or benevolent.
I was suspicious that Dean shares in this epiphany. But the attempted damnation of Deans reach to the other side has confirmed it to be beyond the shadow of any doubts. So two have my worst suspicions about the DLC Dems have been confirmed. The DLC dose not wish to help the Black community, and this is made obvious by the ridiculous assaults upon the mention of a bumper sticker, the only wish to prolong the Black's suffering, so they can continue to sell themselves as the savor.
Battle not with monsters, least ye become a monster yourself.
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