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Iowa Voter Blasts Dean for Knocking Bush
AP via Yahoo!News ^
| Jan 11,2004 6:35 PM ET
| NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer
Posted on 01/11/2004 6:55:58 PM PST by NonValueAdded
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.
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: 2004; anger; bush; campaign; dean; hothead; howarddean; iowa
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Amazing
To: All
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posted on
01/11/2004 6:56:26 PM PST
by
Support Free Republic
(Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
To: NonValueAdded
This guy needs to become a Freeper.
3
posted on
01/11/2004 6:57:55 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: NonValueAdded
Mount Dean finally erupted. And it'll haunt that arrogant little SOB for the rest of the campaign.
To: NonValueAdded
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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posted on
01/11/2004 7:03:16 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: Viking2002
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!
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posted on
01/11/2004 7:03:40 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
("Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." GWB 9/20/01)
To: NonValueAdded
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
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posted on
01/11/2004 7:11:52 PM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(I'm a monthly donor to FR. And proud of it!)
To: NonValueAdded
Does anybody have the video or know where it can be seen online?
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posted on
01/11/2004 7:12:31 PM PST
by
dano1
To: NonValueAdded
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.
9
posted on
01/11/2004 7:14:01 PM PST
by
jagrmeister
(I'm not a conservative. I don't seek to conserve, I seek to reform.)
To: NonValueAdded
>> ...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.
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posted on
01/11/2004 7:14:03 PM PST
by
Clinging Bitterly
(President Bush sends his regards.)
To: NonValueAdded
"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!!!
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posted on
01/11/2004 7:17:50 PM PST
by
ladyinred
(W/04)
To: NonValueAdded
"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.
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posted on
01/11/2004 7:17:50 PM PST
by
Kudsman
To: jagrmeister
Imagine Dean with the nuclear football...
"Shut up and give me the football. I'm commander and I'm launching."
To: NonValueAdded
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posted on
01/11/2004 7:19:35 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
("Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." GWB 9/20/01)
To: NonValueAdded
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.
To: NonValueAdded
Dean pledges to change the tone in Washington -- to civil war.
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posted on
01/11/2004 7:20:40 PM PST
by
AZLiberty
(George Bush hunts terrrorists. Hillary pardons them.)
To: jagrmeister
Let's make sure we defeat Dean before he can make Dale sit down and shut up!
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posted on
01/11/2004 7:22:10 PM PST
by
Ukiapah Heep
(Shoes for Industry!)
To: NonValueAdded
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?"
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posted on
01/11/2004 7:23:01 PM PST
by
Keith in Iowa
(The only good news for Democrats is they could save $$ by switching to Geico.)
To: Dog Gone
A Republican version of 1992's pony tail man. Remember him?
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posted on
01/11/2004 7:28:53 PM PST
by
ambrose
To: ambrose
Who could forget?
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posted on
01/11/2004 7:35:36 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
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