Iowa Voter Blasts Dean for Knocking Bush

AP via Yahoo!News ^ | Jan 11,2004 6:35 PM ET | NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer

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Iowa Voter Blasts Dean for Knocking Bush
AP
Sun Jan 11, 6:35 PM ET

By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer

OELWEIN, Iowa - Howard Dean rejected a voter's request to be more neighborly and stop "mean mouthing" President Bush, saying Sunday someone needs to stand up to the president.

Dale Ungerer, a retiree from Hawkeye, Iowa, lectured Dean for nearly three minutes near the end of a forum aimed at winning voters for Iowa's Jan. 19 caucuses.

Ungerer accused Dean and other Democratic presidential hopefuls of dividing the country by bashing Bush instead of outlining their own plans and showing respect for authority.

"Please tone down the garbage, the mean mouthing, the tearing down of your neighbor and being so pompous," Ungerer told the former Vermont governor and Democratic front-runner. "You should help your neighbor and not tear him down."

"George Bush is not my neighbor," Dean replied.

"Yes, he is," Ungerer said, to which Dean responded: "You sit down. You've had your say and now I'm going to have my say."

Dean said Bush has harmed communities like Oelwein by failing to fund education programs, by fighting for corporations rather than family farms and sending American troops to Iraq (news - web sites) without telling the truth about why they were deployed.

"That is exactly the problem. Under the guise of 'support your neighbor' we're all expected not to criticize the president because it's unpatriotic," Dean said to enthusiastic applause. "I think it's unpatriotic to do some of the things that this president has done to this country."

Ungerer spoke after Dean extended his regular invitation for the audience to make comments, pose questions and offer "rude remarks."

Ungerer, who said he was a registered Republican who voted for Bush but sometimes supports Democratic candidates, left after the exchange.

"He put me down definitely because he is who he is," Ungerer said.

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Amazing

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[Dog Gone]

This guy needs to become a Freeper.

[Viking2002]

Mount Dean finally erupted. And it'll haunt that arrogant little SOB for the rest of the campaign.

[Revolting cat!]

Dean said to enthusiastic applause

In Iowa, not in Cambridge or Berkeley? I say the country is already divided and ready for a demagogue Mussolini!

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Yeah, the guy wants a little more civility added to the process and Dean response "You sit down. You've had your say and now I'm going to have my say."

Notice too that Dale Ungerer spoke for three minutes but we hear more about what Dean said than about Ungerer. I hope someone has this on tape!

[prairiebreeze]

You sit down. You've had your say and now I'm going to have my say."

Howard Dean, at his core, is a bossy and (as is often the case) very arrogant physician. He will have a very hard time covering these quick, impatient responses.

Prairie

[dano1]

Does anybody have the video or know where it can be seen online?

[jagrmeister]

Dean: "Sit down"
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I know voters just love candidates who order them around imperiously. This just reinforces Dean's image as ill-tempered, unstable, unpleasant and unlikeable.

[Clinging Bitterly]

>> ...bashing Bush instead of outlining their own plans...

That is the Democrat way, and with Dean you'd have one, through and through. It's just a waste of oxygen bringing that up, they all have to know it.

[ladyinred]

"Please tone down the garbage, the mean mouthing, the tearing down of your neighbor and being so pompous," Ungerer told the former Vermont governor and Democratic front-runner. "You should help your neighbor and not tear him down."

This to the guy who asked that personal attacks in the campaign should stop just the other day!

He tells the guy to sit down? I think he isn't getting that vote!!!

[Kudsman]

"You sit down."

"You are insolent. You are a traitor to the Islamic nation," he spat out as Qatar's Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani tried to shut him up.

Similarities of egocentric meglomaniacs?

Contrast that with what President Bush's response was to the English press when asked about the presence of protesters on the occasion of his visit to England. I recall him stating something to the effect of "I'm thankful to be in a free society that allows the people to express dissenting views." If someone has his exact quote please do post it.

[AmericaUnited]

Imagine Dean with the nuclear football...

"Shut up and give me the football. I'm commander and I'm launching."

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I see this was reported by NewsMax under a different title and posted by Tumbleweed Connection here: Dean Blows Stack During Iowa Q & A

[fish hawk]

My sister watched this and called me to tell me about it. She said Dean was rude and very angry and she said you could almost see the horns trying to come through the skin on his forhead. LOL. The more he acts up like this the more Reagan Democrats we are going to see in the election.

[AZLiberty]

Dean pledges to change the tone in Washington -- to civil war.

[Ukiapah Heep]

Let's make sure we defeat Dean before he can make Dale sit down and shut up!

[Keith in Iowa]

That outburst would make a good republican campaign ad if Deanie the Weenie is the nominee - just run the outburst followed by a full-screen voice over graphic saying "Is this man fit to deal with international leaders?"

[ambrose]

A Republican version of 1992's pony tail man. Remember him?

[Dog Gone]

Who could forget?