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To: Bridge Player who wrote (123145)	7/3/2005 12:40:20 PM
From: Bearcatbob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793903

"and he is in a small minority of politicians who tells-it-like-he-believes-it-is without regard to polls, his particular audience, or political correctness " His broad brush false characterizations are not the stuff or principled straight talkers. They are the stuff of unprincipled demagogues.

To: Bridge Player who wrote (123145)	7/3/2005 3:57:29 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793903

Here is Betsy's take on the Howard Dean story in the WaPo. I think she is right on with her analysis. The Washington Post has a long cover story about Howard Dean's tenure as DNC chairman. Much of the article could have been written for Dean's presidential campaign. There are lots of anecdotes about Howard as a kid and a young man. Probably, a lot of these stories are left over or recycled from the campaign. Then the author talks about Howard's big mouth gets him into trouble, but that he regards this as a rather endearing quality of being frank and saying what he's thinking. So what if what he say is impolitic and gets him into trouble. He's just being Howard. As far as what he's accomplishing as DNC chair, what strikes me is that it is all about his aspirations. He wants to have better organization. He wants to raise more money. He wants to have better grass roots connections. He wants to sell the Democratic message (whatever that is) in red states. So, he's traveling around a lot and talking to people. But there isn't anything that I saw in the article about what he's actually accomplished beyond setting these goals. It's less than a year and a half until the 2006 elections. It's about time that he starts accomplishing something rather than just talking. And since he tends to create waves and offend people with about every fifth time he opens his mouth, he still seems like a gift for the Republican Party. betsyspage.blogspot.com