Seven Years Ago Today...
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Howard is most firstly.
ReplyDeleteHappy Grammy Day, listener! Beautiful pic yesterday BTW. And I agree completely; regressives is the perfect word.
Alan, unfortunately the Skinner book/CD package sounds too complicated for me. If I were fully sighted, or even if I had an easier time reading under the enlarger it would be great. I've always wanted to develop a more cultured - or is it cultivated? - speaking voice. But, alas, specialized notation systems and reading machines don't mix.
Puddle, so glad your daughter-in-law is doing better!
That heatwave I predicted is here. It's forecast to run four or five days. Guess I can't really complain. It is August after all.
Howard's first! And granddaughters are pretty much coequal!
ReplyDeletePeople are beginning to talk...
ReplyDeleteThere is speculation about the next election cycle
because Howard Dean is making trips to Iowa and Utah
and next month New Hampshire.
What I recall him saying at the Reunion is that he won't run if Hillary is running,
and he won't run unless he feels the issues aren't being sufficiently discussed and addressed.
So, I don't know if this means he's running, but it must at least mean
he is planning to take part in the election cycle conversation.
If he runs, though, I'll definitely be volunteering at HQ again!!!
Wait, wait, here it is:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.radioiowa.com/2013/08/21/howard-dean-most-likely-to-support-hillary-in-2016-audio/
Very good observations by Out Howard. In particular, “The president had the best campaign organization I have ever seen these last two campaigns…I do think that David Plouffe, his campaign manager, knew where every single Democratic vote was in the whole country…and it was just a matter of getting them out, but we did not do that in our House races and we need to do that,” Dean said. “We need to focus in the off-year elections. Just the way we focused to reelect the president, we need to know where every vote is.”
DeleteMaybe I've just been too busy with other things, but I really haven't heard much about the upcoming Congressional elections. I've got contributions in to defend a couple of the Illinois seats we picked up in 2012, but otherwise I'm almost clueless as to who's running. Who needs help and who doesn't.
Taking a break from reading the article to observe: Somehow I doubt Hillary would be any more grateful or have any better memory for who helped her than Obama. A Clinton/Dean ticket? Dean in a Clinton cabinet? In our dreams! Howard's too darned loyal! He doesn't push Number One nearly hard enough.
DeleteSo we'll end up voting for Hillary (*gag*) because Howard asked us to, just like we voted for Kerry and Obama because he asked us to when we really wanted to vote for Howard - when what the country needed was Howard. Well, I held my nose and voted for Kerry, and I sucked it up and voted for Obama, but I don't know if I could vote for Hillary...even for Howard. I don't have anything tangible against her. She was a good first lady. By all accounts she was a good senator and a very good Secretary of State. I just don't fancy her as president. But for Howard...? For Howard I guess I'll try. I owe him that much; but no promises.
More words of wisdom:
DeleteDean suggested young Evangelicals could vote for Democratic candidates if the party focuses on issues like poverty and climate change which are important to Americans under the age of 35.
“A lot of the people who we think are our enemies are not,” Dean said. “We’ve got to talk to them.”
Long-term, person-to-person connections will be the Democratic Party’s path to building a winning coalition, according to Dean.
Bill, it's unusual for you to be so disengaged.
DeleteOh, I so DO NOT support Hillary! I am sick and tired of conservative Democrats. And Obama is an excellent example of that. I only voted for him because Mitt was a joke. Can't we, for the sake of the people, get someone who doesn't try to be the "nice guy" or the "triangulator"? Why can't we have someone who stands up for the people and the environment?? Someone with something called...I don't know... a SPINE!
ReplyDeleteIntegrity?
DeleteThe only two people I can think of who fit that description are Howard Dean and Dennis Kusinich. I don't think we'll live to see either one of t hem in he Oval Office.
Howard Dean told the local press today that he is slated to be a visiting professor / lecturer at the University of Vermont this year!
ReplyDeleteI bet his lectures will be standing room only!
DeleteI agree! I'll watch to see if there are any open to the public!
DeleteI feel much the same way about Hillary, Cat and Susan.
ReplyDeleteShe doesn't bother me as much as she used to. But I can't quite picture her spouse as "First Gentleman."
I donno. He'd take it in stride and probably do a swell job. He'd probably wind up being some sort of minister without portfolio, possibly even Sec State. He'd be good at that.
DeleteHe also doesn't raise my blood pressure nearly as much as he used to. S'pose that means we're getting more laid back in our old age? LOL
Maybe it's that the older he gets the more harmless he becomes.
DeleteEven so, I haven't really forgiven him for messing around with an intern (it doesn't take a bright mind to figure out that's inappropriate) then lying about it, completely trashing the next election cycle and handing the country to the Repressives on a silver platter. I don't relish having the Clinton dynasty continue.
Of course, it won't help to forget that we don't seem to have another option at the moment. Maybe Howard Dean would be in Hillary's cabinet. That would at least be a balm. I'd maybe even settle for her not dissing him.
LOL do we all grow more harmless as we grow older? That's a scary thought!
DeleteIt's a sad day, isn't it, when we consider a potential president *not* dissing Howard as not only a good outcome but very possibly the best outcome we can hope for? It's a lousy, unfair world.