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Howard Dean Has People Skills
By Matt Margolis | January 11, 2004
Howard Dean, showing off his people skills, yelled at an Iowa voter today. After his typical spewing of hate speech, he took questions, and was clearly unprepared for Dale Ungerer, a 66-year-old retiree from Hawkeye, Iowa.
Ungerer .. rose to his feet and condemned what he called the incivility of the campaign and the political press. He suggested Dean and the other Democratic candidates stop “tearing down your neighbor” and cut their “slam, bam and bash Bush” rhetoric.
“Please tone down the garbage, the mean-mouthing of tearing down your neighbor and being so pompous,” Ungerer, a registered Republican who voted for Bush in 2000, said to scattered hisses and boos from the overwhelmingly pro-Dean audience at the Oelwein Community Center.
Dean, whose rivals have suggested his impulsiveness, outspokenness and temperament make him less than ready for the White House but have been unable to provoke him in a dozen or more debates and forums, began by calmly replying: “George Bush is not my neighbor.”
But when Ungerer stood and tried to interrupt, Dean shouted: “You sit down. You had your say. Now I’m going to have my say.”
Kind of reminds me of a scene in Office Space. You can almost picture Dean saying: “I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can’t you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?”
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January 11th, 2004 at 7:24 pm
Mind of Mog : liberty democracy sephy 11.January.04 Not My Neighbor
And Howard Dean is not my neighbor either. Note to Dean come election day, “You sit down. You had your say. Now I’m going to have my vote.” […]
January 11th, 2004 at 8:17 pm
Thanks for that Deanism and humorous tie-in to Office Space… Great movie.
January 11th, 2004 at 11:29 pm
Dean, Asked to be Nice, Acts Mean
“We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mouse pads, shoe leather and hope. We seek to build a community of millions and strengthen the voice of the people.” Thus it states right at the top…
January 12th, 2004 at 2:21 pm
Oh… poor the Republican… what did he expect at a Dean rally. Oh well… I knew you would start whining again sooner or later, especially now that Paul O’Neill has confirmed what we have known all along.
Bush is a blind man in a room full of deaf people.
Oh yeah… and there were never any WMDs either.
Pathetic.
January 13th, 2004 at 1:15 am
The following is a great article on the “Real” Dean. I heard today that he get infuriated when asked about his upbringing….well now you will know why…
HOWARD DEAN: POOR LITTLE RICH BOY ….
January 10, 2003: Not too long ago the soft, somber undertones of the smallest fiddle in the world could be heard playing in the background to Bill Clinton’s depictions of the hardships of his upbringing. Today we are being serenaded by the mellow and solemn tones of the smallest Stradivarius in the world playing as a background to an insightful peek into Howard Dean’s upbringing courtesy of his mother’s interview with the New York Times. The interview illustrates the hardships this poor little rich boy experienced during the days of his youth. From having to accept entitlements from his parents (via manipulation of tax loopholes) to being subjected to the hostility of racism at the East Hampton Maidstone Club, this exclusive glimpse into the childhood of this Democratic presidential candidate is quite remarkable.
Andree Maitland Dean, Howard’s mother, goes to great lengths to validate her son’s contention that his roots are “practically working class.” In fact, it would seem that he was brought up with the same burden that most working class people have to contend with, not treating the servants like servants (Read as Mr. Howell from Gilligan’s Island: “Oh Lovie! Get Gilligan. The ugliness of all of it is driving me mad!”). Of course, the fact that Howard Dean even had servants sets him apart from the vast majority of Americans. It would be incredibly naïve to consider Howard Dean as being familiar with the issues of the working class simply because he worked a construction job while on medical deferment from duty in Vietnam (oh that aching back!). After all, there weren’t too many blue-collar workers transversing the slopes in Aspen in those days.
Neither were there many of the members of the working class burdened with their parents funneling massive amounts of money to them, especially long after they had left the fold. While Dean’s parents were channeling nearly a million dollars to him over the past two decades — some in increments as large as $200,000 at a time — those of the working class were making sure to set up their 401(k) accounts correctly (if they could afford to have one), going without all through the year so they could perhaps take a family vacation, never mind the constant worry that existed in the back of their minds about tax time. The last thing most working class people were doing during the time Dean was receiving his unearned stipends was trying to manipulate tax loopholes so they could add huge sums of fortune to their portfolios while they raked in a physician’s salary. With this type of financial upbringing, it is easy to see why Dean is so eager to raise the taxes on the middle class by repealing the Bush tax cuts.
But probably the biggest hardship for Dean, the modern day version of the poor little match girl from the early 20th Century, was having to summer at the “whites only” Maidstone Club in the Hamptons (where he and his family were members). It must have been a brutal experience, a humiliating experience, to be waited on by those who weren’t even of the religion or race that would allow them to be members. I would imagine that is were young Howard developed his sense of need for diversity. It is quite obvious through the multi-cultural atmosphere that exists in the post-Dean Vermont that this gross inequity weighed on his mind quite heavily.
And then there was the traumatic experience of having to endure the horror of racism at the Maidstone Club. As if the exclusion of people for membership consideration based on their religion and/or the color of their skin wasn’t startling enough, Governor Dean had to endure the occasional racial epithet from his own parents although he proclaims, “Yes, there was sort of this casual racism, in terms of the racist expressions that were used by that generation. But in all, I think my family was pretty open-minded about different kinds of people.”
I suppose when one summers in the confines of the exclusive Maidstone Club one learns to be tolerant of others, even if they are committing acts of racism, if only casually.
For Howard Dean to stand in front of his supporters and the people of the United States, grinning the grin of the snake oil salesman better than Bill Clinton ever did, proclaiming that he “feels the pain” of the working class people would be laughable if it weren’t so infuriating. The fact of the matter, and it is quite apparent, is that Dean lived a life of privilege equal to, if not more so than, anyone who is elected to office today. His parents afforded him an upper-class college education, an education that left him a physician. He was deferred from military service because of a “medical problem” so debilitating that he was able to ski in Aspen instead of fighting in Danang. He suffered the lavish brutality of the exclusive and obviously racist Maidstone Club as he toiled his youthful summers away and he learned that his brand of tolerance included an acceptable level of racism on the part of those close to him.
If Howard Dean didn’t have the spin machine working overtime to quell those who would point out these youthful “experiences”, one could argue he was brought up a child of privilege, far from knowing the hardships of the working class and whose values were akin to those of the Gatsby’s, the Vanderbilt’s and the Rockefellers. And it doesn’t take a psychologist, an economist or even the talking heads of the mainstream media (who insist on ignoring these faux pas) to explain to the people of the United States that the Gatsby’s, the Vanderbilt’s and the Rockefellers, and evidently the Dean’s, were not working class.
The only question that remains to be answered about Howard Dean’s knowledge of the working class is whether or not he has to remove the platinum spoon before he engages the lavatory. Something tells me that’s a problem for him.
Frank Salvato, Managing Editor, The Rant (Copyright © 2003 Frank Salvato)
P.S. Matt keep up the good work. It is nice to know there are young men who are conservatives! Also, check out FreeRepublic.com…a great conservative web site.
Kindest regards,
Jacqueline
January 13th, 2004 at 6:42 am
Cole is at least right about one thing…Paul O’Neill has confirmed what we knew all along…which is that Paul O’Neill is an idiot.
The angry leftists like Cole want it both ways. First, Bush went into Iraq without a plan. Now, he supposedly started planning right after inauguration. Which is it?
Why are O’Neill’s words eiether shocking or scandalous? Yes, I expect that Bush did start planning right after inauguration. I also expect that there are war plans for Syria, Iran, Libya, and N. Korea also…just in case we need them. Furthermore, I expect Clinton had similar plans. The stated policy on Iraq, going back to Clinton, called for regime change. What the hell do you think that means?
Cole…what you obviously don’t seem to grasp is that most Americans don’t give a damn about WMD. We think Saddam should have been finished off the first time he refused to let UN inspectors go where they wanted to go. He should have been finished off the first time an Iraqi SAM lit up a coalition jet enforcing the no-fly zone.
By the way, Cole…the only whining I’ve heard lately was by Dean, after Sharpton bitch-slapped him on national television.
January 13th, 2004 at 8:33 am
Sorry Cole, this latest attempt to manufacture a “scandal” is already dead in the water and sinking fast. (kind of like the democrat presidential hopes) The fact that the moonbats are taking the bitter blatherings of a fired policy wonk at face value just illustrate that the democrats are getting desperate.
January 13th, 2004 at 8:41 am
By the way, USA Today is reporting that the Treasury Dept. has asked for an investigation into the theft/misuse of classified documents by O’Neill.
January 13th, 2004 at 8:30 pm
Back in the May 24th, 2003 issue of “The Economist”, they introduced an article with
January 17th, 2004 at 1:39 pm
Maybe Dean does have a temper, but Ungerer was allowed to state his opinion at a Dem event. No one can question Bush at a Bush event. Bush has a temper, too. Refute one of his comments and he gets red and so angry he can’t speak. But you will almost never see this because Bush’s appearences are completely scripted and he never speaks in front of anyone but soldiers in uniform and prescreened groups of supporters with $2000 checks. He keeps protestors at least ten blocks away. That’s why he’s scared to come to Philadelphia because we’ll give the spoiled little richboy brat what for.
Now what gets me is how Bush can propose amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in a guest worker program that provides cover for terrorists, a plan that will throw his core supporters out of work. Those rural conservative Southern whites who receive for $10-12 an hour plus retirement and medical will be tossed out with the garbage in favor of illegals or “guest workers” who will get paid $6 an hour and no benefits. If they get uppity, well then they either get deported or rotated out in three years so a new crop of guest workers who will work for nothing will come in. Real wages haven’t risen since about 1973 and this only makes it worse. Even if you don’t lose your job, who pays for the hospital stay when the illegal gets injured because Bush gutted OSHA? You do. Who pays for the illegals kid’s in school? You do. Who pays the price when a terrorist sneaks into this country because Bush threw our borders open
in a time of war because he wanted cheap labor for his fatcat contributors? WE DO.
What really gets me on top of that is how if some Democrat proposed this the Trollbaiters and Rednecks and Matt Margolises of the world would be rioting in the streets–and rightly so. Bush does it and they embrace the idea. This nation is so far gone Bush can up and stab in the back those who voted for him and Bush supporters love him for it!
Bush supporters, I never thought I’d have to say this, but put your own interests first for once! Bush isn’t God. It’s okay to put America in front of Bush.
February 3rd, 2004 at 6:30 pm
It is all irrelevant because Howard Dean no longer has a chance after the public lynching of him by the media.
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