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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (522805)	1/12/2004 10:24:34 AM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 769670

Are you trying to prove that Lefties believe their own lies? No...are you? Al

To: Bill who wrote (522805)	1/12/2004 12:39:14 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

LOL... Howard Dean is really a cliche.... Dean: Some of My Best Friends are Black Hours before he was nailed by Rev. Al Sharpton in Iowa for not appointing any minorities to senior cabinet positions while he was governor of Vermont, Howard Dean was seen telling Canada's news roundtable, "The Editors" that some of his best friends were black. "I had two African American roommates in my freshman year in college who developed into life-long friendships," Dean responded, when asked during an interview broadcast on Sunday how he could relate to common folk after growing up rich on Park Ave. and in East Hampton. "They never knew any white people before they came to Yale. I didn't know any black people before I came to Yale. Yet we forged deep friendships as it moved along the timeline between when we graduated and when we went on to other things." Dean said his two black friends have helped him win over black Southerners. "We now have an organization in South Carolina and Georgia in the African-American community because of what my former roommates were able to do for me there," he boasted. Dean said he could also relate to Hispanics because he once worked at a ranch that employed Cubans. "I've worked in Florida in a summer job in a ranch, which was principally worked at by Cuban exiles. So I learned to speak a little bit of Spanish there and I learned what it was like to lose everything and have to come to a new country. . . ." Dean said the experience had taught him that his own life had been pretty easy, explaining, "I've known people whose lives haven't been so terrific and have been pretty tough and I'm very thankful that mine has been as relatively easy as it has been." In fact, apparently Dean's family and President Bush's were once so friendly they even socialized together. "George Bush and I have exactly the same background," he said. "In fact, interestingly, his grandmother was a bridesmaid at my grandmother's wedding." But Dean said Bush is trying to cover-up his tony past, while he's proud of his aristocratic roots. "[Bush] seems to want to pretend he grew up in Texas in a hardscrabble way, and I don't have any - I'm not ashamed of my background. I'm very proud of my parents and what they were able to achieve." However, Dean's mother, Andree Maitland Dean, took trouble a couple of weeks ago to emphasize her son's egalitarian upbringing, telling the New York Times, "We didn't even treat the servants like servants." newsmax.com