Howard Dean's religion problem. Beyond Belief

The New Republic ^ | 12-23-03 | Franklin Foer

[isthisnickcool]

Mean, mean, Howard Dean.

[Az Joe]

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"As Dean has described it in recent months, the dispute over the bike path caused him to break with the Episcopal Church and become a Congregationalist."

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I almost left the Catholic church because the holy water was the wrong temperature.

[woofie]

Dean does believe...in bike trails

[billorites]

"I have never heard that before," says his brother James Dean.

[Nonstatist]

I almost left the Catholic church because the holy water was the wrong temperature.

Did they have a bike path?

[csistrueblue]

Can someone confirm - I read that Dean did his residency at Planned Parenthood - so this makes him the first Abortionaist Candidate - Please confirm - thanks!

[Qwinn]

What a bizarre article.

"But, by keeping the culture war from flaring up, he has created an environment in which religious-right voting drives could have a hard time gaining traction. "Evangelicals are populists," says University of Virginia sociologist James Davison Hunter. "They participate in politics when they feel embattled, when they feel like the culture is out to destroy the way of life they cherish. Right now, they don't feel that."

At which point the author goes on to completely disprove his own point. Maybe he realized that we would all read the part he just quoted and wonder if he was smoking crack? Just weird.

Qwinn

[jmcclain19]

Here you go.

American Specator Aritcle

Dean's never answered the questions, he dodges them every time.

[Dane]

Talk to sensible Howard Dean supporters these days, and they'll tell you that the former governor's campaign to date has been a grand sleight of hand.

IOW, according to the first sentence of this New Republic article, being a liar, is "sensible".

[rabidralph]

So, Dean would go to war over a bike path, but not to protect America's interests and national security? *giggle*

[Dionysius]

With apologies to Kipling:

Screw you, Dean, Dean, Dean!
You're a syphilitic coward, Howard Dean.
Like the leftist scum that made you
And the pro-choice fiends that paid you,
You'll fry your balls in hellfire, Howard Dean!

[WOSG]

Yes, Dead did intern at Planned Parenthood. He's a guy who spent more time in an abortion clinic than any other presidential candidate in history.

He does believe in something, after all.

[narby]

Bush might be able to pound Dean like a drum. But it will still be a tragedy to have 6 months of hard core liberalisim promoted by the Democratic media and swallowed whole by the 30-40% hard core Democratic voters.

This campaign, even if Dean looses, could set the stage for a hard left turn in general public.

That is unless Bush beats them so bad, and gets a 60 seat majority in the Senate, that the Dems completly implode and go the way of the Whigs.

What will they call their new party?

[Dems_R_Losers]

That sound you hear is Karl Rove cackling.

An unbelievably important article. I am printing and saving it.

[Paleo Conservative]

"One thing I feel about religion, you have to be very careful not to be a hypocrite if you're a religious person.

Of course being a hypocrite is perfectly acceptable if one is a marxist or stalinist.

[Verginius Rufus]

Centuries from now, Dean's conversion to Congregationalism will be remembered as one of the classic conversion stories, up there with St Paul's and Augustine of Hippo's.

I don't like the way the author sneaks in the insinuation that George W. Bush was an alcoholic...it's true that he used to party too hearty, but I haven't seen any evidence that he was an alcoholic.

[trebb]

Dean hasn't committed himself to many policy positions that can be portrayed as far left-

Wanting to reverse the tax cuts is far enough to the left for me...

[deport]

Dean's experience with Planned Parenthood

Dean conducted his three-year residency at a teaching facility called the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont (now called Fletcher Allen Hospital) in Burlington beginning in 1978. During this time, in 1978 or 1979, according to Barrie-Hope Silver, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England in Williston, Vt., Dean also served as an intern in an OB/GYN rotation at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Burlington. Silver was unable to pinpoint the exact date.

Mary Hahn Beerworth, executive director of the Vermont Right To Life Committee Inc., has researched Dean's involvement with Planned Parenthood and told CNSNews.com that Dean filled the non-mandated OB/GYN shift during his residency schedule despite the fact that it was not required for his degree as a doctor of internal medicine.

"The OB/GYN rotation is not required for [his degree]. He wanted to add that," Hahn Beerworth said.

CNSNews.com has also learned that Dean continued as a physician at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Burlington after his internship ended. Silver, the marketing director for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE), said Dean "was employed as a contract physician for PPNNE, providing routine GYN care and medical consults."

Dean further served on the organization's board of trustees between 1980 and 1984 as well as on PPNNE's medical advisory committee. On his presidential campaign website, Dean declares that he is "proud to have served as a Board Member of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. [end excerpt]

[Howlin]

Great picture. Just great!