Dean: Party Needs to Unify Around Obama

Dean: Party Unity

The Democratic party has not represented democrats since they joined with the Republicans to set up safe districts. Reelection contributions are the dominting force in politics. The power of the people has been eroded by PACs and special interest groups. Not one word of policy or program has been discussed during this campaign. Our choice has been for race, gender, and unspecified change.

FDR set out an agenda for a future in his last State of the Union address that has been ignored by the Democratic Party for the sake of petty personal aggrandizement and the rise of group entitlements instead of individual rights and opportunities. Where is the competativeness on an even playing field, the opportunities for health, education, jobs, housing for all, not entitlements for the loudest voices.

We were a nation in which the cream could rise to the top. Now we have been homogenized to allow each of us a sense of equality without responsibility or effort. It is no wonder that we have lost our direction and our influence in a competative world.

Democratic Leadership

McCain and Obabma did have some informal discussion about the use of public funding for the fall campaign, but there was never a formal agreement. Both let the idea fade, until McCain realized he has very little of substance he can attack Obama on, so now we have to put up with 5 months of nit picking about who's wife is more patriotic ect, instead of actually debating the issues that matter most.

DEAN IS A JOKE !

Money is not evarything ! Hillary was out spent 2 to 1, 3 to 1 at the end and She still spanked Bama, by 20 to 35%.. So money is inportent but not the only thing. What Dean and them have don to the Dem party, makes me want to go INDEPENDENT ! There is NO UNITY FOR OBAMA !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not even with hillary as VP. NO TRUST IN OBAMA, WILL STAY HOME, or vote McCain..

Carly Fiorina plus Obama campign pledge

You know, I remember this little company called once called Lucent, although it wasn't really that little. Carly Fiorina was the CEO... Once she ran that company into the ground by missing the whole optics thing, you know - the Internet, she went on to find work as the CEO of a company called HP. Once she again destroyed billions of dollars of investors value she left that company too. Now she's an economic advisor to John McCain? Really? Beign considered the nominee for vice president? Really!!!!??? And reporters want to keep bringing up flag pin questions? This is some actual fertile ground here with the so-called advisors he has.

And Obama never actually said this... "Early in the campaign, Obama pledged to participate in public financing if his GOP rival did the same"

Here is the question and Obama's ENTIRE response people keep referring to with this canard.

The following item was on the questionnaire:

If you are nominated for President in 2008 and your major opponents agree to forgo private funding in the general election campaign, will you participate in presidential public financing system?

OBAMA: Yes. I have been a long-time advocate for public financing of campaigns combined with free television and radio time as a way to reduce the influence of moneyed special interests. I introduced public financing legislation in the Illinois State Senate, and am the only 2008 candidate to have sponsored Senator Russ Feingold’s (D-WI) bill to reform the presidential public financing system. In February 2007, I proposed a novel way to preserve the strength of the public financing system in the 2008 election. My plan requires both major party candidates to agree on a fundraising truce, return excess money from donors, and stay within the public financing system for the general election. My proposal followed announcements by some presidential candidates that they would forgo public financing so they could raise unlimited funds in the general election. The Federal Election Commission ruled the proposal legal, and Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has already pledged to accept this fundraising pledge. If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election.

The part of the answer both Hillary and McCAin left out was "combined with free television and radio time to reduce the influence of moneyed special interests"

Please don't be a stenographer. Do some fact checking. You don't have access to a lexus-nexus account? And you get paid to do this for a living? Pathetic.

Dean

Dean is one of the big reasons that this party is in such disarray. Just ask any one of a number of his old Vermont constituants. Most will tell you he should have stuck to medicine and stayed far away from politics. Disasterous!

And they said what?

There is every possiblity McCain will attempt to lure in a gaggle of silly geese by naming Heather Wilson or Carly Fiorina as his running mate, as though either of them would do anything other than help John set women backwards for 40 years via the Supreme Court.

You just read two previous posts from some people who are eager for such a thing to happen---clueless to the real ramifications.

Clinton in 2012

Republicans planting newspaper stories! What a shock! Like the stories the Democrats are planting about how Clinton supporters are "unifying" around Obama?!

Dean

I heard that the Democratic Convention, for the first time in history, won't conduct a role call vote. Someone should tell Dean that that's not unity!!! Democracy!!!