Shout It Out, Howard, We're Listening..a fine op ed from last year.

I am practicing my first post, so keeping it simple. I ran across this mighty fine analysis of Howard Dean in the LA Times last year. So I thought I would post it because it still fits the times, and it sounds like this guy appreciates a truthspeaker like we do.

Dean speaks loudly about things our folks in Washington tip-toe to avoid. He condemns the Iraq war as misguided. He wonders why we don't worry more about nuclear weapons in North Korea.Republicans preach morality, he says, but ignore poverty in the United States. Where is the respect for privacy when Republicans want to legislate end-of-life decisions for a brain-dead woman?

And Dean, the white Christian, acerbically grumbles that our nation is not stronger if we are viewed only as Caucasian mono-religious. Are those comments misguided, or are they timely? The way we see it from this end of the country, the former presidential candidate is catching the wave.

One more thing. Washington Democrats tend to see the world through the prism of their own political futures.

There is more to leading this party than not scaring the horses.

Read the rest of the article here.



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