When you select someone to represent YOUR interests, it is a Good Thing to make sure that person has the same interests as YOU DO. Kucinich comes from the same background as me and as most Americans. Bush and Dean come from backgrounds quite different from Kucinich and myself, and Bush's and Dean's backgrounds are quite similar-- even eerily similar. That is one reason why I chose Kucinich as the man to represent me in the White House....
Look at the evidence and judge for yourself:
HYPOTHESIS: DEAN =~ BUSH
THE EVIDENCE:
From :
http://www.counterpunch.org/colby02222003.html>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Meet Howard Dean. The Man from Vermont is Not Green (He's Not Even a Liberal) by MICHAEL COLBY For Vermonters who have seen Howard Dean up close and personal for the last eleven years as our governor, there's something darkly comical about watching the national media refer to him as the "liberal" in the race for the Democratic nomination for president. With few exceptions in the 11-plus years he held the state's top job, Dean was a conservative Democrat at best. And many in Vermont, particularly environmentalists, see Dean as just another Republican in Democrat's clothing.
As the son of a wealthy Long Island family (his father was a prominent Wall Street insider), <b> Dean's used to having his golden path well greased. </b> After dutifully attending Yale and then medical school, Dean looked for a state to launch both a private medical practice and a political career. He chose Vermont as much for its beauty as its lenient mood toward carpet bagging politicians, thus joining Brooklynite Bernie Sanders as a born again Vermonter.
Dean became Vermont's accidental governor in 1991 after Governor Richard Snelling died of a heart attack while swimming in his pool. Dean, the lieutenant governor at the time, took the state's political reins and immediately followed through with his promise not to offend the Snelling Republicans who occupied the executive branch. And Dean carried on with his right-leaning centrism for the next eleven, long years.
With his sights now set on the White House, the Dean team has been doing its best over the last year to polish up a mediocre gubernatorial record. They're also trying to position Dean as "the liberal" in the Democratic field so as to grab the much-coveted early primary voters.
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From
http://www.citizinemag.com/politics/politics-0309_antibush_dean.htmby R. McFadden Howard Dean describes himself as an "outsider" in his run to be elected US President in 2004. But months before the New Hampshire and Iowa primaries, this pretended outsider has already gathered more money than any other candidate (with more than $10 million in private donations) and he is the undisputed front runner to challenge George W. Bush to the presidential crown.
The Center for Public Integrity describes Howard Dean's blueblooded youth: Dean was born into a wealthy New York family in 1948. The oldest of four brothers and the son of a wealthy, conservative stock broker, he grew up in the Hamptons and the Upper-East side where he attended elite private schools. In 1967 he entered Yale University. While at Yale, Dean discovered that he had an innate sympathy for the civil rights movement and the plight of the poor. He steered clear of radical protests and student demonstrations, later saying that he “instinctively distrusted ideologues,” but he also came to oppose the escalating Vietnam War.
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From
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/981758/posts>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
If you were to pick a presidential candidate on the basis of social standing — and really, darling, who doesn't — you'd have to pick Howard Brush Dean III over George Walker Bush. The Bush lineage is fine. I'm not criticizing. But the Deans have been here practically since Mayflower days and in the Social Register for generations. It's true Bush's grandfather was a Wall Street financier, a senator and a Yale man, but Dean's family has Wall Street financiers going back to the Stone Age, and both his grandfathers were Yale men.
The Bush family properties were in places like Greenwich, Conn., and Kennebunkport, Me., which is acceptable, but the Dean piles were in Oyster Bay, on Hook Pond in East Hampton and on Park Avenue, a list that suggests a distinguished layer of mildew on the family fortune.
Again, I'm not suggesting the Bushes are arrivistes. <b> Howard Dean's grandmother asked George Bush's grandmother to be a bridesmaid at her wedding</b>, and she wouldn't have done that if the family were in any way unsound. I'm just pointing to gradations. <b>Dean even went to a slightly more socially exclusive prep school, St. George's, while Bush made do with Andover before they both headed off to Yale. </b>
On the other hand, both boys have lived along parallel tracks since they went out on their own. Both went through their Prince Hal phases. Bush drank too much at country clubs. Dean got a medical deferment from Vietnam and spent his time skiing in Aspen. Both decided one night that it was time to get serious about life and give up drinking. Dean was 32; Bush was 40.
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Therefore DEAN =~ BUSH in many respects!
Q.E.D.
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