I finally watched a video of Dean's "Yee-haw" speech.
It's beyond my imagination that this speech is being taken as some kind of a scandal.
For Democrats: if you think this is "over the top," get ready for Dubya as President until 2009.
For everybody else, if that speech scares you and the mess Bush has created for American foreign policy with the Iraq War doesn't, you may be in for some unpleasant surprises in Bush's second term. Check out David Frum's and Richard Perle's An End to Evil for some of what's in store.
Molly Ivins just did a mini-review of that book:
Perhaps more unnerving still [than O'Neill's and Rubin's books] is a third book (which I have not yet finished): An End to Evil by Richard Perle and David Frum. It might more aptly be titled The Beginning of Evil, since it is a plan for unlimited, unprovoked war in which we overthrow the governments of Iran, Syria, North Korea and, apparently, China.
One would dismiss this as mere crackpottery if Frum had not written the "Axis of Evil" speech for Bush and if Perle were not a leading neo-con.
Perle is a longtime advocate of invading Iraq and still on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board despite numerous conflicts of interest.
2 comments:
I don't know if it's spin or not, but they're saying that Dean was just trying to revive his dispirited supporters and didn't realize that he was going out on national television...But Dean obviously has the establishment worried if they're making that big a deal of it.
The latest polls show Dean 10 points behind Kerry in NH. I see a shakeup in Dean's organization coming soon.
This reminds me of the big deal they made of the picture of Dukakis in 1988 riding a tank. Sure he looked silly, but who doesn't once in a while? It's not as if Bushie's always so "presidential" looking. I find having Bush in charge of MY country a lot more embarrassing than a sound Howard Dean made while trying to rally his supporters!
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