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Howard Dean Outlines Democratic Agenda for Real Change on ABC's 'This Week' [Nut Alert...]
U.S. Newswire ^

Posted on 05/08/2006 8:00:56 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Howard Dean Outlines Democratic Agenda for Real Change on ABC's 'This Week'

5/8/2006 10:25:00 AM

To: National Desk

Contact: Dag Vega of DNC Communications, 202-863-8148

WASHINGTON, May 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On ABC's "This Week," Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean outlined the Democratic Party's agenda for bold leadership and real change. He answered tough questions from host George Stephanopoulos. The following are excerpts from Dean's appearance:

The Democratic Agenda for Real Change:

"The fact is we want real change in this country. We're going to balance the budget, we're going to have American jobs that stay in America and we're going to have honesty and openness in government again. I think those are pretty important. The next thing we're going to do after that is make sure that everybody has health care in this country. If they can do that in 36 countries around the world, we can do that here in the United States of America.

"We want real change in this country, and that's the central election issue. Do you want more of the same, or do you want real change? Because the Democrats are ready to lead again."

Ending the Republican Culture of Corruption:

"There is a culture that goes from the White House to the Vice President's office to the leadership of the United States Senate to the leadership of the United States House of Representatives, and in the agencies. Corruption has become a way of life and it has to change. We have to pass real ethics legislation, not the nonsense that was passed last week in the House of Representatives.

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1 posted on 05/08/2006 8:01:00 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
Wow, why did you retitle this from it's original headline: "Generic out of party platform speech."

Or actually, this could be titled "Who the Throw Em Out In Novemberoids Want to Put In Power"

2 posted on 05/08/2006 8:02:50 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 ("I only respond to posts with reasoned opinions and facts, ignore irrational ones")
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To: Sub-Driver
He answered tough questions from host George Stephanopoulos.

Sure, made the Lubyanka look like a Sunday school picnic.

3 posted on 05/08/2006 8:07:19 AM PDT by dighton
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To: Sub-Driver
What? No $100,000 minimum wage?

Some agenda! Harumph!< /sarcasm >

4 posted on 05/08/2006 8:07:37 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Sorry. After watching Nancy Pelosi on MTP yesterday, I couldn't handle listening to Dean and George...


5 posted on 05/08/2006 8:10:31 AM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

"We're also going to create a good five-cent cigar!"


6 posted on 05/08/2006 8:15:36 AM PDT by RexBeach ("There is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Sub-Driver

He says 80 percent of Americans are struggling? Where do they get these numbers from? Perhaps they might be...making them up?


7 posted on 05/08/2006 8:17:05 AM PDT by Our man in washington
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To: Sub-Driver

That corruption thing is getting tired. Blah, blah, blah, blah ....


8 posted on 05/08/2006 8:17:24 AM PDT by zeaal (SPREAD TRUTH!)
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To: Our man in washington

they're struggling to understand him!


9 posted on 05/08/2006 8:18:17 AM PDT by Sub-Driver (Unelect All NJ Politicians....)
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To: Sub-Driver

Ha! The rats have so many problems and more potentially deadly infighting than we do.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1628579/posts

Al Gore Might Yet Join 2008 Contenders
Wall Street Journal ^ | 5/8/06


Posted on 05/08/2006 8:02:22 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside


...(Gore's denials) aren't persuasive to some Democrats, including former Clinton-Gore White House insiders. "I do know that he's thinking about it. I know for a fact," a former adviser says. "He's talked to people about the pros and cons."

Among those said to be pushing Mr. Gore are billionaire venture capitalist and high-tech entrepreneur John Doerr and Laurie David, a global-warming activist and producer of the film, and wife of "Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" creator Larry David.

/snip

But, she adds, he changes the subject whenever it comes up, and had to be talked into making the movie when she pitched it.

/snip

"His star will never be higher than it is right now with his movie coming out," says Democratic consultant Karen Skelton, Mr. Gore's former political director.

The Gore buzz reflects a sense among even some pro-Clinton Democrats that Mrs. Clinton...can't win the general election because she is a polarizing figure to many voters. These skeptics believe only someone such as Mr. Gore with the celebrity and fund-raising potential to match Mrs. Clinton could stop her.

Like Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Gore remains a negative figure to many voters, says a Democrat who has seen private polls. For both, that might only increase with the spectacle of a Clinton-Gore brawl. Even insiders can't fully account for the bad blood that has built up since... Several insiders say Mr. Gore is more likely to run if Mrs. Clinton does than if she doesn't.

Also controversial among Democrats was Mr. Gore's 2004 endorsement of Howard Dean...


10 posted on 05/08/2006 8:19:38 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist homosexual lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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...make sure that everybody has health care in this country. If they can do that in 36 countries around the world, we can do that here in the United States of America....

Gee. what's the tax rate and the unemployment rate in those 36 countries and do any of them have a balanced budget?

11 posted on 05/08/2006 8:27:19 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir wölle bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: Our man in washington
He says 80 percent of Americans are struggling?

But then Dean says:

"The economy is in good shape if you look at corporate earnings.."

Wal-Mart is a corporation last time I looked; and we know what their numbers have been, even with gas prices where they are.

12 posted on 05/08/2006 8:31:37 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: Sub-Driver
The economy is in good shape if you look at corporate earnings, but for 80 percent of the American people they're struggling.

80%?!? 80%??? Nobody told me that we're in the middle of another Great Depression! Where are the soup lines?

13 posted on 05/08/2006 8:37:49 AM PDT by hsalaw
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To: N. Theknow

What? No $100,000 minimum wage?
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They are going to need that to balance the budget. Wow, $5 gas and $10 big mac.


14 posted on 05/08/2006 8:38:19 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (Democrats are, just, socialists without the honesty.)
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To: Bean Counter

The entire Liberal Democratic Party should be committed to a mental ward for evaluation. They should all be certified as nut cases. If you combined all their brain cells into one, they'd still be lacking.


15 posted on 05/08/2006 8:42:35 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Bean Counter

Sorry. After watching Nancy Pelosi on MTP yesterday, I couldn't handle listening to Dean and George...
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Yes, they are a totally disgusting lot of political and government parasites. Stuck on stupid and stuck on socialism.


16 posted on 05/08/2006 8:42:40 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Sub-Driver
and we're going to have honesty and openness in government again.

Reminds of Clinton's promise to be the most honest or least corrupt administration ever.

We all know what a resounding success that was.

17 posted on 05/08/2006 8:45:37 AM PDT by Michael.SF. ("Cynicism, is an unpleasant way of telling the truth" -- Lillian Hellman)
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To: Sub-Driver
Because the Democrats are ready to lead again.


18 posted on 05/08/2006 8:49:37 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Sub-Driver

Dean and Pelosi were out making the rounds yesterday (how many times did Stephenapoulos address Pelosi as Madame Speaker?). I actually think it's a good thing that these two get face time as they are downright frightening, not fit to have the responsibility of leading a kindergarten finger-painting session, much less wield political power.


19 posted on 05/08/2006 8:50:00 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Our man in washington
He says 80 percent of Americans are struggling? Where do they get these numbers from? Perhaps they might be...making them up?

The fact is, that 80 % of all statistics are made up on the spot.

See? I just made that up!

20 posted on 05/08/2006 8:50:39 AM PDT by subterfuge (Call me a Jingoist, I don't care...)
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