Thanks to everyone for your concern and for your prayers.
My father is making slow, but steady, progress with each passing day.
There's lots to get done so I may be absent for a while.
A fire and strawberry daiquiris sounds like a good idea. Happy you're home and good luck with all those emails.
Are the sane citizens of Iowa sick of Howard Dean yet? Doesn't this man have a home? At this Iowa stop he "testily" tells the crowd his campaign is not based on anger.
Dean responds negatively -- in fact, angrily -- to the suggestion that his campaign is driven by anger. "This campaign is not about anger. It's about hope," he said testily this weekend as he hopscotched from the heartland to Dixie to California in pursuit of caucus votes and contributions. And yet the "hope" he is offering, he told the crowds, is that "we can give George Bush a one-way bus ticket back to Crawford, Texas." [Dean has testes?!]
As the candidate conceded in an interview, the "anger factor" in his campaign may be potent among active Democrats, but it is too narrow for the electorate as a whole. As he starts to look toward the general election, Dean said, "I'm talking not just to Democrats anymore. I'm talking to the whole country." That is the "biggest change," he noted, in his transformation from the bottom to the top of the Democratic polls.
But with a month to go before the first votes of the Democratic primary season, Dean is focusing on his core group, the kind of people who flock to his rallies wearing T-shirts that read "Dump Dumb Dubya" or "He Lied -- People Died" or "Save the Environment -- Plant a Bush Back in Texas." As the candidate is fully aware, that is the constituency that could sew up the Democratic nomination for him in the first month of the primaries. [Nope, no anger with this group.] Link
First words spoken to Saddam by the soldier who found him....:)