Posted on 04/09/2008 9:15:15 AM PDT by seanmerc
To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Luis Miranda of Democratic National Committee, +1-202-863-8148
WASHINGTON, April 6, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean highlighted the reasons John McCain is not a strong candidate in interviews with George Stephanopolous on ABC's This Week and Bob Schieffer on CBS's Face the Nation this morning. Dean also discussed the Democratic Party's "extraordinary candidates" and delegate selection process.
On John McCain
"I don't think Senator McCain would be a good president either in terms of defense or certainly in terms of national policy where he's deeply out of touch with almost everything that Americans believe. We need to change this country. The country wants to be changed." [ABC This Week, 4/6/08]
"We're going to beat Senator McCain. He's not a strong candidate. He's wrong on Iraq, he's wrong on health care, he's wrong on home mortgages. He's wrong on almost everything that the American people want to do." [ABC This Week, 4/6/08]
"This is a race about the change in our country. Look John McCain wants to take the country essentially in the same direction that George Bush has taken it. I don't think that's what most Americans want." [CBS Face the Nation, 4/6/08]
"Look, John McCain is wrong on Iraq, wrong on the economy and wrong on health care. Those are the three biggest issues that the American people are voting on. At least he's wrong compared to what they believe should happen. And so he is not a strong candidate. And people also believe he's a flip flopper, which he is. So the question is, can we make sure that we do head in the new direction that 81% of the American people want us to head in, and I think we can if we are united." [CBS Face the Nation, 4/6/08]
On the Democratic Race
"This is about our country, George. At the end of the day it's not about these two extraordinary candidates that we have running for president. We have to win the election... Either of these candidates would be terrific." [ABC This Week, 4/6/08]
"The superdelegates get elected by the same people who elect the pledged delegates...we have about 800 unpledged delegates, and about 460 of them have already said who they're gonna be for, so if the other 340 would say who they're going to be for then we'd be all set. That's been going on, nobody has protested that so far. So I think that should continue to go on, people should continue to say who they're for and the process should move forward. But the most important people of all are the voters. We've got 10 states left to go, nine states plus Puerto Rico left to go, and I think the voters ought to have their say." [ABC This Week, 4/6/08]
"Here we are having both our candidates I think this weekend were in Montana. They've been in North Dakota. People haven't campaigned in states like that for the presidency in years. So every time you have a big contest for example in a place like Pennsylvania we haven't had a contest there for years and years. Now we know everything there is to know about Pennsylvania. We know who all those 150,000 new voters are that are registered. So there's a lot of good things that are happening because of this. And People are really excited about it because they know it's going to change the country." [CBS Face the Nation, 4/6/08]
"...Which points out something. Here we are fussing and fuming about all the stuff that's on the cable shows. Let's look at this campaign, George. Every single state will have had a campaign, a vigorous campaign with presidential candidates in. Candidates are going to North Dakota and Montana. Never mind just New York and California. We're going to be in great shape. I know the higher echelons of the Democratic Party are wringing their hands over this. The fact of the matter is we're having record turnouts everywhere. We get to run an election in Pennsylvania four or five months before the big election. We haven't done that in years. I think this is actually going to make it easier for to us win as long as we keep the party together." [ABC This Week, 4/6/08]
On Florida and Michigan
"My problem is we want to honor the states and the people of Michigan and Florida who did come out and voted in flawed elections. But we also want to make clear that there has to be an orderly process in the Democratic primary that everyone has to respect. Michigan and Florida voted for those things. So we want to seat a delegation from Florida, we want to seat a delegation from Michigan." [ABC This Week, 4/6/08]
"The voters in Michigan and Florida are important to us. I think the Michigan delegation and the Florida delegation have been very constructive in the last couple of weeks. We've met, we've discussed this by phone, and we're both I think committed to making sure this works in some way." [CBS Face the Nation, 4/6/08]
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Re-read the post before you ask a bunch of questions.
Welcome to FR.
wait until McCain wins..Dean will be more than a
screamer...it’ll be a full blown tornado...JK
John McCains response:
“I respect Mr. Dean and would only say I try my best to be a good candidate. Mr. Dean is a man of integrity and is well qualified himself to be president. I would urge so called “conservatives” to turn down the hate they spew at great Americans like Mr. Dean so we can all work together for the good of this nation.”
Maybe Dean is right!! Juan McCain can’t even recognize a hate spewing adversary.
Yep, President McDole can walk straight into the White House with a racially challenged Obama opponent, Clinton would be a little more troublesome because McDole would have to count on Clinton Haters to show up. May the best man win.
I read it and at your request re read it. My post stands. How about an answer?
What possible direction is that, Dr. Demento? 81% of the American people is an awfully large percentage to agree on anything at all.
Seems as if Dean made up that number out of thin air. But that won't faze him since his target audience is too dumb to pick up on that.
I was merely pointing out the MSM’s goals. They are not always successful.
Now, if you are either a long time McCain supporter OR one of these people that thinks the MSM doesn’t have a tremendous amount of influence over the average American, I’ll be wasting my time.
The MSM does not have to be “king makers.” They only have to influence about 5% of the electorate to sway an election, if it’s close.
BINGO!
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