Posted on 01/23/2004 1:58:51 PM PST by rface
The Angry Mr. Dean
I heard a friend of Howard Dean’s say that what the press took for anger on Mr. Dean’s part was just passion.
If what I’ve seen out of him is passion I’d sure hate to see the Doctor really mad. He chewed a guy out on TV the other night for asking him a question he didn’t like.
What if he became president and some reporter asked him a derogatory question about one of his proposals. What would he do, have the Secret Service take the poor guy out back of the White House and shoot him?
OK, that’s pretty preposterous. But when you stop and think about it anger begets vindictiveness and revenge, and those emotions can drive us to do some crazy things.
You can look at Howard Dean’s countenance and see his anger. The way his eyes blaze and the way his mouth stays tight all the time.
And his policies are dangerous. He would just pull the troops out of Iraq because he thinks we shouldn’t have gone to war with them at all.
If he liked things the way they were before we had the war in Iraq does that mean that he would restore Saddam Hussein to power?
And he would stop the tax cuts when the economy is just starting to cook after the catastrophe of 9 -11. It’s easy to take money away from one person and give it to another but is that a good way to approach the economy? Isn’t that called redistribution of wealth?
Most of you who have read this column for any length of time know what I think of the Clintons. But I’ll tell you that Bill Clinton looks like Abraham Lincoln when compared with Howard Dean.
I know very little about Mr. Dean except that he was Governor of Vermont and what I’ve seen of him on television and what I see I don’t really like.
This is not the kind of man who I want to see with the codes to the nuclear football.
People do some pretty far out things under the influence of anger and I fully believe that Howard Dean is not only angry but also that he could possibly be capable of just losing it and going out of control. He almost trembles when he gets upset.
Mr. Dean made quite a few statements years ago which he now has to face and does so with some pretty inane answers. I still don’t quite know where he stands on religion.
Now don’t get me wrong, I hope the Democrats do run Mr. Dean. I believe when he is faced with the hardball questions of a Presidential debate that he is apt to come apart and stand there red faced shouting at somebody.
If he’s the best the Democrats have got to offer, they’d better go back to the drawing board.
Mr. Dean needs to control his temper, but even if he does, we’ll know that it’s still there smoldering just under the surface.
Pray for our troops.
God Bless America.
What do you think?
Charlie Daniels
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