Howard Dean implies the Tea Party movement is racist
In a speech Wednesday night at the George Washington University, Howard Dean told College Democrats that “the Tea Party is about a generation who grew up in an America where everyone looked like them” and implied that the movement is hostile to President Obama because of his race.
Dean, a former governor of Vermont and chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009, is not the first Democrat to make such a claim. Former President Jimmy Carter told students at Emory University last year: “I think people who are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African American.” Actress and activist Janeane Garofalo put it more bluntly: “The functionally retarded adults, the racists — with their cries of, ‘I want my country back’ … you know what they’re really saying is, ‘I want my white guy back.’”
Dean went on to say that the views of older conservatives in the Tea Party movement were “diametrically opposed” to the views of the student generation on key social issues, including abortion and gay rights.
He also said that the Republican Party holds “untenable positions based on emotion and anger,” and that the GOP won’t be effective until they “stop pushing the hate button.”
“Republicans are great at opposing, but not leading … because they believe their own nonsense,” Dean said.
Democrats are different, according to the former DNC chair, because Democrats “respect the process” and “think other people have good ideas.” The comment comes amidst criticism from Republicans that the Democrats want to use the reconciliation process in the Senate to pass a health-care reform bill. Republicans have also criticized the president and congressional Democrats for not listening to proposed GOP ideas for health-care reform.
But Democrats weren’t safe from criticism during Dean’s remarks either. He called former President Bill Clinton “an aberration” and later said he wished Democrats would be tougher in passing legislation. When asked whether the Democratic Party could be more
unified in its voting, remarked: “We can’t and we never will.”
Dean also slammed former Vice President Dick Cheney, calling him “a horrible person who ran Halliburton” and admonished the New York Times for having an inherent bias in its reporting, saying that “most of the time, Jon Stewart is probably more accurate than the New York Times.”
After one particularly embarrassing moment, when Dean referred to the audience as Georgetown University students despite speaking at The George Washington University, he even mocked himself and the infamous scream which some credit with ending his run for president in 2004. To a chorus of cheers and laughter, Dean shouted “I’ll tell you what — we’re gonna go to Georgetown, we’re gonna go to GW, we’re gonna go to American!” But this time, no “BYAAAAHHHHHHH!”
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Hear for yourself — in Howard Dean’s own words — how he wants Socialism in America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UScQ1lqCSmQ
This guy is unhinged and not worth reporting on anymore…
AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
(the mating call of the almost nominated democrat)
What really p!sses them off is that the Tea Party is organizing…That’s right ..ORGANIZING..! The left believes they are the only ones that can bring about change by organizing…..”You can’t do that” they scream, “We’re the only ones that can organize for social change, not you”….”Stop it..stop it”…Waahhh..!
……Well isn’t that just too bad..!…………….☺☺☺☺
Howard………………………SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If it walks like a duck and it squaks like a duck, it must be a duck. Dean is right.
Your right! Dean is a Duck….good eyes doncicci..get your teabagging yet? I know you have been hopeful.
“Let me make sure I understand: you see public disapproval of the takeover of healthcare by the government as a centrist position. You only grudgingly admit that disapproval of the government bailout of GM and with it the left’s union constituency is of the right. And you think the approval of the Afghanistan surge is not a position of the right, but of the center.”
Try it this way Todd-it’s much more honest:
Reform of health care is a centrist position.
There were plenty of voices on the left that were screaming about the bailout of corporate America and not just about GM.
Go back and look at the debate on retaliating in Afghanistan versus “preemptive invasion” of Iraq following September 11 and tell me what side the left was on.
Your penchant for playing to the crowd and behaving like this is a WWE match instead of an exchange of ideas is unseemly. I don’t engage in these discussions to be proclaimed a “winner” or a “loser” but to understand why there is such an incredible divide in what people perceive as the truth. We ALL bring our prejudices to the table in a discussion and we should all be willing to concede a point now and then. That’s intellectual honesty. If you want to do an end zone celebration every time you think you’ve made a minor gain in a much broader discussion, you should check the scoreboard. You’re still behind despite the misdirection.
keep cheering yourself up like that.
It will make your tears this fall taste so much sweeter.
In hindsight, I shouldn’t have called you a douchebag. And I’m truly sorry for that.
What I meant to say is that you are a tendentious, sanctimonious douchebag. Please forgive me.
And allow me to extend to you my warmest personal secretions.
With that, I bid you good day.
Peace, and don’t be hatin’
Todd
Well, you can’t say I didn’t try, Todd. Appealing to your better side is just a fool’s errand.
I thought that there may be some brains under that exterior (and I was probably right) but you seem to have a narcissistic personality disorder of some kind that makes talking to you too much of a chore.
You can’t get through a simple post without resorting to rude and hostile behavior and it’s pervasive enough to make me realize that it’s not just a screen personality but actually you.
When you meet people on the street, do you call them douchebags to their faces if they have the temerity to disagree with your opinions?
Or is it just behind the safety of a keyboard that you feel that you’re in your comfort zone?
I think it’s the latter.
And what’s more cowardly than that?
Right, I guess calling someone a douchebag is much worse than calling them an idiotic liar with a personality disorder. Your light-minded condescension is, at least to me, much worse and much more insulting. But I guess that’s the prejudice I bring to the table. Agree to disagree!
And as far as being a coward, I really doubt you’d have the guts to say that to me in person. But I’d give anything to see you try! Talk about hiding behind a keyboard.
So, once again, I reiterate: Sir, you are, were, and continue to be, a giant bag of douche.
And, once again, I bid you good day.
Oh, and one last thing: maybe you should just lighten up, Freud. Or eat me. Either way, no skin off my Ashtabula.
Todd,
Sorry for the long delay in getting back to you. I’m in the northeast and lost power and cable for the last day and a half.
This is what I’m seeing:
Afghanistan- public center
Bank tax public left
Bernanke public center
Bush tax cuts public left
Campaign finance public left
cap and trade public left
cash for clunkers public left
Credit card protection public left
DC voting rights public left
Fair Pay public left
Financial regulations- public -left
Gays/military- public -left
GM bailout- public right
Hate crime- public-left
Health care public center
jobs bill public left
mortgage relief public left
Paygo- public center
Schip – public left
Sotomayor- public left
Stimulus public center
Tarp public center
Terror trials public right
Torture memos public right
With Afghanistan, the left has been calling for more focus in the area since day one. That’s why I said center
On Tarp, the objections have been on both sides. I could have included GM, but I’ll give you that. Center.
On Health Care, I’m still going to say center. Both the public and the left want substantial changes to the system, but not this POS bill. The right wants nothing changed .
On security issues like gitmo and torture, the public is still in a reactionary frame of mind.
I definitely oversold my premise, but not by very much. I was reading the polls from right opposition perspective instead of the public mood side.
One fact should leap out at you if you step back and look at results as a whole.
The myth that Obama is a Marxist revolutionary leading us to a communist totalitarian state is totally exploded.
The overview presents a portrait of a man who is still unsure of his position and proceeds cautiously with an eye on the polls.
Damn!
Misplaced the reply again!
“I definitely oversold my premise, but not by very much.”
I agree with everything before the “but”. Or unless by “but not by very much”, you mean “and by a whole sh*tload.”
Let me make sure I understand: you see public disapproval of the takeover of healthcare by the government as a centrist position. You only grudgingly admit that disapproval of the government bailout of GM and with it the left’s union constituency is of the right. And you think the approval of the Afghanistan surge is not a position of the right, but of the center.
So you now back off and slant the views contained in a self-selected poll by a leftist pollster, after putting it forth as conclusive proof that we’re not center-right, but center-left. Astounding rhetorical back-flip, sir.
It’s like that troll that was trying to blame treacher for crushing the SUV’s grill by running into it full-speed with his already broken knee.
You make about as much sense here as you did on Dick Cheney . . . and we know your views on that subject are as wrong as wrong can be (otherwise, he’d be in jail or under indictment now.)
So what we all should ask ourselves, with respect to you, is “what would it take to change your mind?” Sounds like the answer to that is: ‘nothing’.
If you’re determined to see right as center and center as left, then it’s pretty clear that the object of your discourse is not truth, but persuasion. And further discussion with a sophist such as yourself is pointless.
Monkey eats king.
I’d say ask yourself this: “what are Obama’s approval ratings now? What are congress’ approval ratings now?” Then, “Is Obama left or right? Is Congress left or right?” But that assumes you can be truthful with yourself, which may occur when you’re alone with your thoughts, but clearly won’t occur in this forum. I’m sure you’d find some poll that says that Congress’ approval ratings, when adjusted, approach 100%, and that Americans really wish they could make Obama president for life. So, no response necessary.
You know when we’ll know for sure? This november. Good luck. And by that I mean go jump in a lake.
nothing but a blind bama boy..trained sheeple walking in lockstep follow the leader he’s gonna change something!..
Funny: Dean comes from a state where there are practically no blacks (i lived there) and Carter from a state where racism is still alive and well (live there now). Neither of these bloviators have a clue. Just because I may not agree with someone doesn’t make me the wisher of their demise. I have black clients who are trying to tell me the same thing. Oh,so blacks hating Bush (there were plenty of them) makes them racists?
I grew up in a small Midwest farming community where there was one black family. No one seemed to have an aversion to this, not the blacks or the whites. I moved to the South (SC) 32 years ago and, you are right about racism. You just have it backwards. It is the Blacks who are the racists. When OJ was aquitted, the cheering that went up in my workplace was sickening. I couldn’t believe his race was more important the the murder of two people. Most people I know just go about their business and get along great with their black coworkers. Turn on the television and it is a whole other world with the constant theme that all Republicans(those far right extremists) and a lot of times just the generic “whites” hate blacks, want to keep them down, deny them rights, etc. Who has perpetuated these lies? their very own leaders and the Democrats (know known as “Liberals and the “far left”). In a sense, the Dems won that one: good old fashioned class warfare: the poor vs. the rich, black vs. white, Dems vs. Republicans, and on it goes. Now who was funding the Dems this last campaign? Trial lawyers, the big banks, pharma, SEIU (150 million dollars), Wall Street. What is this about the rich Republicans? George Sorros, Bill Gates, Hollywood, Warren Buffet, Martha Stewart, to name a few, gave mightily in various forms to this man who is called Mr. President. Mr. Obama will, without a shred of doubt be the most divisive, capitalist hating, constitution hating president we have ever had and the most incompetent. He talks and talks and talks. All he has ever accomplished is to get a job and run for the next level. Well, he is stuck now. There is no place to run and he is now demonstrating the true meaning of “”reaching his level of incompetency”. Health care problems? We would not have the issues we have now on price and fraud if the government had stayed out of it from the beginning. Let competition, the free market and innovation lead the way like it used to when things worked. Pile on, pile on. That is the liberal way. Don’t EVER solve the problem, you might lose your constituency. Take a look at Detroit, NY, California. Who has run these states into the ground?-nanny governments and unions. Pension plans up 2000% in 10 years? What mind can’t figure this is CRAZY?… and the forgotten man just keeps paying.