posted on June 5, 2005 12:51:19 PM new
Democrats Criticize Dean Attacks on GOP 41 minutes ago
Democrats Joseph Biden and John Edwards are criticizing party chairman Howard Dean, saying his rhetorical attacks on Republicans have gone too far.
Dean has said Republicans never made an honest living in their lives and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence. DeLay has not been accused of any crime.
Dean "doesn't speak for me with that kind of rhetoric and I don't think he speaks for the majority of Democrats," Biden, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
While discussing the hardship of working Americans standing in long lines to vote, Dean said Thursday, "Republicans, I guess, can do that because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives." Dean said later his comments did not refer to hard-working Americans, but rather to the failure of Republican leadership to address working-class concerns.
Responding to Dean's initial remark, Edwards said Dean "is not the spokesman for the party."
Dean is "a voice. I don't agree with it," Edwards, a former senator and the Democrats' vice presidential nominee in 2004, said Saturday at a party fundraising dinner in Nashville, Tenn.
Democratic Party spokeswoman Karen Finney said Sunday, "At times we may have disagreements in our party, just as Republicans have disagreements, but as Democrats we are unified in our efforts to get our country back on track."
Asked about Dean's remark about Republicans and honest living, GOP chairman Ken Mehlman told NBC's "Meet the Press": "I'm not sure the best way to win support in the red states is to insult the folks who live there. I think that a better approach might be to talk about the issues you're for."
posted on June 5, 2005 04:34:17 PM new
dbl - With Biden and Edwards both speaking out...more will follow in their footsteps I'd bet.
If enough don't...then to me that just shows that the radical wing of the dems has more control of their party....for now. But the clinton's have power in their party...and she's tying to look more moderate anyway so well see as they choose up sides. It's going to be a long 3+ years. lol
posted on June 5, 2005 04:39:35 PM new
It's unfortunate. His campaign for head of the DNC was based on common sense gas roots politics. This is exactly the wrong approach. I'm not quite sure it is goig to turn mods though ladies. Most people vote for a candidate not the head the head of a committee.
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No, I'm saying -- I'm merely -- I'm saying what I'm saying. I don't know why I'm always having people say, are you trying to say -- you know what you can do if you want to know what I'm saying is listen to what I'm saying. What I'm saying is what I said ...
posted on June 6, 2005 04:44:27 AM new
I can't believe he would say that on his own, and mean it. Could he have been joking? It just seems like political suicide.
posted on June 6, 2005 04:53:07 AM new
"Dean opens mouth, inserts foot."
well like bigpeabrain,it's certainly big enough
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Baseball season has started,but they have it all wrong.3 strikes and you're out,4 balls you walk.I can tell you right now a man with 4 balls could not possibly walk
posted on June 6, 2005 10:58:54 AM new
in capitol letters no doubt LOL
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Baseball season has started,but they have it all wrong.3 strikes and you're out,4 balls you walk.I can tell you right now a man with 4 balls could not possibly walk
so well see as they choose up sides. It's going to be a long 3+ years. lol