Howard Dean At It, Again

It would be nice if someone in the media pointed out the reality behind Howard Dean's disgusting remarks to the DNC today. It doesn't take much to break the code. You might recall 1850 was just before a little thing we call the Civil War.

"We are the campaign that the under-30s think looks most like their generation," he said, noting the presence of a woman, an African American and a Latino candidate among the Democratic field.

"We are the campaign that looks like America. And when the other side's candidates get up, they look like the 1950s."

"And when they talk," he added a moment later, "they sound like they're from the 1850s."

Comments

[Capitalist Infidel]

The left has been projecting their vicious racism and homophobia onto Republicans for decades.

[TheSpartan]

Are you going to point out how he's wrong?

[Steve H. Graham]

The Democrat offerings are so diverse, they resemble Dean's mother's kitchen staff.

[seekeronos]

"--- Are you going to point out how he's wrong? ---"

Yes, Dean is wrong.

1950s candidates would talk about the Cold War and containing communism. They might also talk about the Korean War (as a subset of the Cold War).

1850s candidates would talk about keeping the Union intact and debate about introducing slavery into newly acqiuired territories, and were likely concerned about containing British and French ambitions in the Northern half of the Western hemisphere.

2008 candidates do not face those particular issues, or others like them that were problematic to the 1950s or the 1850s.