Posted on 06/03/2005 6:46:50 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean yesterday said many Republicans don't make an "honest living" -- the sharpest barb in a campaign-style speech to a conference of liberal activists.
Speaking to the Campaign for America's Future, Mr. Dean called for easier rules for voting, saying it is difficult for working parents to make it to the polls on time and wait to vote.
"Well, Republicans, I guess, can do that, because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives," Mr. Dean said. "But for ordinary working people, who have to work eight hours a day, they have kids, they got to get home to those kids, the idea of making them stand for eight hours to cast their ballot for democracy is wrong."
The Democratic National Committee later defended the former Vermont governor's remarks as a comment on the state of the economy.
"Governor Dean was simply pointing out what everyone already knows: People are working harder for less money thanks to the Bush economy. Republicans clearly don't understand that," said DNC spokeswoman Karen Finney.
Mr. Dean's remarks stand in contrast to a report released Tuesday by Third Way, a centrist Democratic advocacy group, that said Democrats are facing a crisis among middle-class voters and found that Republicans -- at both the presidential and congressional levels -- have a commanding lead among white middle-class households.
Mr. Dean's comment was reminiscent of when Teresa Heinz Kerry, during the 2004 presidential campaign, questioned whether first lady Laura Bush had ever worked.
"I don't know that she's ever had a real job -- I mean, since she's been grown up," Mrs. Kerry said of the former school librarian.
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Thank you very much.
She then turned to her gigolo husband and his ambulance chasing running mate during a photo op at Wendy's, pointed to a bowl of chili and asked "What the hell is that?"
That would be nice wouldn't it?!
It's interesting, this remark from Dean. Medical school and internship, residency etc. is no piece of cake for anybody, obviously Dean knows how to work hard, at least he has in the past.
I think his mouth simply engages before his brain does. Which is good for us in the long run :^P
BWAAA-HHA HA HA HA HAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
That's one of the funniest pictures I've seen on Freeper.
Well, we know Teddy has been on the "public dole" his whole life----and so has Kerry...what he hasn't gotten from his wife!!!
We cannot cause too much of a stink here folks, otherwise the dems just might get rid of him.... and WE NEED him as DNC Chairman at least until 2008...
I guess he also doesn't think the troops work hard enough--betcha that a lot of them are Republicans...
BUT, then again Rangel is going to put up another draft bill, so I guess more dems can take it easy like the Republican....LOL
Here's my version of the HOward Scream:
"First I'M GOING TO WAKE UP!!!!!
THEN I'M GOING TO EAT BREAKFAST!!!!!!!
THEN I'M MEETING MY UNCLE!!!!!!!!
THEN I'M GOING TO THE SHOOTING RANGE WITH HIM!!!!!
THEN I'M GOING TO EAT LUNCH!!!!!!!!
THEN I'M GOING TO GO TO WORK ON A SECOND-SHIFT FOR SMALL PAY!!!!
THEN I'M COMING HOME AND THEN I'M GOING TO BEEEEDDD!!!!!!
YYYYYYYYYYRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Speaking to the Campaign for America's Future, Mr. Dean called for easier rules for voting, saying it is difficult for working parents to make it to the polls on time and wait to vote.
That is why you should live within your means so that one parent is at home. If you work so much that you cant find time to vote in an 18 hour period, then you should absentee. The most important thing to remember, is, if you make it too easy to vote, (like its hard right know!),all the idiots will vote. That is the same principal that made the electoral college a necessity.
That's hilarious ! Think I can work those lines into a another graphic ?
His wife needs to have him commited to a physic ward before he hurts himself or someone else. I am assuming they are still together, maybe not, she struck me as a lot smarter than him and should have seen the light by now. I feel sorry for his children.
So, if I were a Dimocrap, I would only have to work 8 hour days? Hmmmm. May need further review.
Yeah, but it'd have to be someone other than Dean saying it.
I'm happy to see Howie Dean make speeches like this. They just show how out of touch he is with Americans. Something like 52% of us voted for Bush in 2004. Can he really convince anyone that 52% of Americans have never had a job? I don't think so.
TC
I have worked jobs where we worked 7- 12's,(or more), for 5 months straight. I found time to vote, and it wasn't absentee!
spine indeed! I wonder myself.
I wrote a piece here on FR during the campaign where I hypothesized that the way to understand Dean is to realize that he is someone who HATES his father, i.e., he is a pure Freudian head-case. Substitute "my father" for "republicans" in Dean-speak, and it all becomes clear.
Women with children as a group voted for Bush.
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