Howard Dean
This is just unbelieveable. I don’t think I even need to comment on this (but I will). Here are some quotes from Howard Dean:
Dean called President Bush “the most divisive president probably in our history.”
“He’s always talking about those people. It’s always somebody else’s fault…” Dean said. “Americans are sick of that. Even if you win elections doing that, you drag down our country.”
So, diviseness is bad, I think is the gist of this.
Democrat leader Howard Dean called the Iraqi prime minister an “anti-Semite”
“Thank God for Bill Nelson, because we’d have another crook in the United States Senate if it weren’t for him…She doesn’t understand that it’s improper to be chairman of a campaign and count the votes at the same time. This is not Russia and she is not Stalin.”
So, let’s not be divisive, but I guess it’s okay to call a prime minister an “anti-Semite” (because he condemned Israel, by the way, so Howard Dean is calling the leaders of that whole list of countries anti-semitic by proxy) and let’s compare Harris to freaking Stalin. Did I miss the great Florida purges somehow? How many pounds of make-up did Stalin wear?
His point was about how divisiveness, or the pitting of liberal and conservative Americans against each other is hurting the country. I don’t see how this has anything to do with the Iraqi PM.
His comparison of Katherine Harris to Stalin was only in regard to voting indiscretions. Stalin, after all, was the one who said, “Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” I think the comment is appropriate. She had a huge conflict of interest. And you must’ve slept through the great Florida purges because Harris ordered the purging of 57,700 voters.
There is nothing wrong with divisiveness as you’ve defined it. Should we eliminate an idealogy? Which one? If that’s what he means, then certainly he’s out of his mind for other reasons.
And why use Stalin of all people in a comparison? When someone dresses nicely, we don’t say “they are dress like a Nazi”.