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Dean tells AP Obama must reclaim progressive baseBy Beth Fouhy, Associated Press Tue Nov 30, 2:47 pm ET NEW YORK – Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean has a message for President Barack Obama: Reclaim progressive voters or risk both re-election and the future of the Democratic Party for years to come. **SNIP** He dismissed Obama's efforts to court conservatives as "a waste of time" even as the president was meeting with Republican congressional leaders at the White House for the first time since the midterm elections. Dean noted that Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has vowed to make Obama a...

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LYING EYES: Dean on Sarah Palin “She Can Look You Right in the Eye and Say Things That Aren’t True” http://www.theblaze.com/stories/lying-eyes-dean-on-sarah-palin-she-can-look-you-right-in-the-eye-and-say-things-that-arent-true/

Syndicated columnist and PBS regular Mark Shields on Friday actually said on national television that he has never heard a Democratic leader or presidential candidate accuse former President George W. Bush of lying America into the Iraq War. This was said in response to Charles Krauthammer telling his fellow "Inside Washington" panelists that this all too common media assertion is the "essential untruth of this decade" (video follows with transcript and commentary): GORDON PETERSON, HOST: What’s happened to honest objective reporting? EVAN THOMAS, NEWSWEEK: Well, I’m not sure there ever was honest objective reporting, but there is an interesting thing...

Dean 3.0: What the Tea Party Can Learn from Democrats in 2010 and BeyondAri Berman Oct 27 2010, 11:54 AM ET "The first rule of change is controversy," famed community organizer Saul Alinsky once said. "You can't get away from it, for the simple reason of, all issues are controversial. Change means movement, movement means friction, friction means heat, and heat means controversy." Alinsky is not the only liberal icon Tea Party Republicans now admire. They've also belatedly fallen in love with Howard Dean, who they generously mocked for the better part of a decade until Democrats picked up six...

...Mr. Soros is the sugar daddy of the Democratic Party and the modern left. His net worth is more than $7 billion. He is one of the richest and most influential men in the world. Almost every major liberal organization, think tank or media outlet has been the beneficiary of Mr. Soros' largesse. The Nation magazine, Mother Jones, Media Matters, MoveOn.org, NPR and the Center for American Progress - all together they have received tens of millions of dollars from the financier. They serve as front groups and propaganda vehicles to promote Mr. Soros' brand of transnational socialism. ..Mr. Soros...

By now many conservatives have heard about the widespread voter fraud committed by Obama and his supporters in the 2008 Democratic primary election allowing him to claim the party’s nomination over popular vote winner Hillary Clinton. As exposed in the movie We Will Not Be Silenced, Obama and close political ally ACORN “created an army to steal caucus packets, falsify documents, change results, allow unregistered people to vote, scare and intimidate Hillary supporters”. One participant in the massive voter fraud who has not received nearly the credit he deserves for the electoral theft is Howard Dean. While the FEC is...

Liberals: When asked about Democrats running away from the president and running campaign messages in opposition to Washington and to the president’s policies, Tim Kane said, “People ought to be proud to be Democrats.” Howard Dean: "We thought that Fox [news] worked for the Republican Party, now we know that Fox really runs the Republican Party" Christina Romer: “The only surefire ways for policymakers to substantially increase aggregate demand in the short run are for the government to spend more and tax less. In my view, we should be moving forward on both fronts.” Senate majority leader, Harry Reid: “It...

Jackson County prosecutors today charged a student wearing a bullet-resistant vest with slashing the throat of a dean at the Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley just 20 minutes before Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was scheduled to speak there. Prosecutors charged Casey Brezik, of Raytown, with two counts of first-degree assault and two counts or armed criminal action in connection with the 9:35 a.m. attack on the second floor of the Humanities Building on the campus at 3210 Southwest Trafficway. ....> About an hour before the stabbing, Brezik posted an update that said: “Pharaoh let my people go! We have but two...

Former Democratic National Party chairman Howard Dean predicted on Sunday that his party will retain a narrow majority in the House. "I'd bet money on the Senate, for sure. The House is much tougher," Dean told CNN's "State of the Union." "We're going to win in the House and we're going to have a majority. It will probably be reduced to ... perhaps as small as a five- or 10-seat majority," he said. Last month, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said there was "no doubt" that it would be tough for Democrats to squeak by without losing power in the...

Via Breitbart. Normally I wouldn’t bore you with three mosque posts in a row but this is such a thunderbolt coming from a true-blue lefty that it won’t wait. I can’t imagine that Dean-o really believes what he’s saying here; the mosque is too much of a cause celebre on the left at this point for him to deviate for reasons of conscience. Presumably he’s simply so terrified by the polling on this issue that he’s willing to do whatever damage control he can to mitigate losses in November. (He’s a former head of the DNC, remember, so he’s used...

Martha Dean, a political outsider who made support for gun ownership part of a broadly conservative agenda, easily won the Republican primary for attorney general Tuesday against challenger Ross Garber, a moderate who had the backing of much of the party establishment. (Also) Kevin Lembo (who is married to a man) trounced Waterbury Mayor and five term, former state legislator Michael Jarjuara in the primary for state comptroller by a 70 to 30 ratio, according to unofficial returns. Jarjura appeared poised to carry his hometown of Waterbury by a couple of hundred votes, but little else. The Garber-Dean contest, which...

With all of this contrived talk about Tea Parties and Racism we get an actual look into the soul of Democrat depravity à la Democrat Super partisan Keith Olbermann and Uber-Democrat partisan Howard Dean as they discuss how Democrats plan to wage war against Republicans coming up until this November. And what do we find? We find that calling the Tea Party Racists is nothing at all but a plot of Democrats to demonize Tea Parties. Since Democrats had such grand success in turning the entire world against George W. Bush, they think that employing the very same strategy will...

Newt Gingrich and Howard Dean both left pants on the ground regarding the Shirley Sherrod Racism incident in their interviews with Fox News Chris Wallace. We learned earlier this month that a leftwing group affiliated with the website “Journolist” have plans in place to defeat those who they consider enemies by hurling the Leftwing invective “Racist” at enemies whether they are Racist or not and whether there is evidence of the charge or not. Many of these “Journalists” write for major newspapers around the country so they regularly access and influence the public square of ideas. In fact they may...

You can tell the Obama administration has given marching orders to their ObamaBots regarding the Sherrod sainthood. On CNN they said the Tea Party ideology is racist. Rep. Cohen in Memphis is trying his best to make the election there about race, and today Howard Dean calls Fox racist for supposedly getting Sherrod fired....which as Chris Wallace points out, is completely false. Begin watching around the 4:45 mark or so and watch as Dean fumbles around trying to figure that one out. He looks like a deer caught in the headlights and then changes the subject, never answering the question:...

DANBURY -- A challenger to Republican attorney general candidate Martha Dean is calling into question comments she made this spring about guns and schoolchildren. Ross Garber, who is forcing a primary against Dean, said Monday he takes issue with his opponent's comment that she will "advocate firearms training for boys and girls in schools, in scouts, at camp and elsewhere." Garber said while he supports the Second Amendment and a citizen's right to bear arms, he believes an attorney general should "focus on being a strong advocate for the state and its citizens, not pushing a personal political agenda." "It's...

Jimmy Dean, the musician and founder of the sausage company that bears his name, has died. Dean, 81, died today. He lived in Varina, in eastern Henrico County. He is survived by his wife, Donna Meade Dean. Funeral arrangements at Nelsen Funeral Home on South Laburnum Aveneue have not been finalized. His 1961 hit Big Bad John, was No. 1 on Billboards pop charts and won him a Grammy. Dean was a regular headliner in Las Vegas and Reno in the 1960s.

Ouch. As much as I truly didn't want to acknowledge it, I listened to the "ass kicking" display and felt the same embarrassed awkwardness I felt when Howard Dean and Mike Dukakis tried to channel their own inner manly man... Hollow theatrics don't matter when push comes to shove; they just are embarrassing in the face of the environmental disaster that is the Gulf oil spill. Say what you will about Dubya, one fact about him remains clear - he never resorted to "acting" due to a lack of insight or conviction in his beliefs -- regarding Katrina or any...

Carrie Severino of the conservative group Judicial Crisis Network is a staunch Obama opponent when it comes to judges, and she is quick to detail why Elena Kagan is unsuitable for the Supreme Court. But Ms. Severino's views are different when she recalls her days at Harvard Law School while Ms. Kagan was dean. "She was a very effective dean," Ms. Severino said. "Dean Kagan treated the conservative student organizations not like they were some kind of pesky fly but rather serious organizations." Ms. Kagan's six years as Harvard law dean form one of her most important credentials for the...

National Public Radio reported Barry Hussein Soetoro as “a son of Africa” in 2008 apparently not all of the background information about the 44th president of the United States has been scrubbed from the internet yet.(see story)(Listen to 12:22min audio. 9:41mins in) Why, do you suppose those NPR “birthers” weren’t aware of Soetoro’s Hawaiian “Prima Facie” birth certificate like those who defend him are today? Where do you suppose NPR got such information? And didn’t the editors at the Nigerian Observer read the Wall Street Journal’s opinion that president Soetoro was born in Hawaii? Why would NPR lie? Why did...