Ma Dean: We Always Treated Servants Well

NewsMax.com ^ | 1/04/04 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean may have grown up on tony Park Avenue and summered with the swells at East Hampton's then-whites-only Maidstone Club, but his mother, Andree Maitland Dean, insists her son's roots are practically working class.

"Howard didn't have the least bit of a glamorous upbringing," Ma Dean told the New York Times last week. "When I was growing up, we didn't even treat the servants like servants."

Sitting in her humble multimillion-dollar Upper East Side digs, Mrs. Dean told the Times that every time she had a baby, she'd be forced to convert the dining room into a bedroom for the newborn. In fact, space was so tight there was barely enough room for baby Howard's live-in nurse.

"I don't think we could even keep up with the Bushes," she sniffed.

Her man-of-the-people son agreed, telling the paper, "I am not in the least bit embarrassed about how I grew up. But, now, it wasn't quite as opulent as everybody might think."

Maybe so.

Then again, as the Times notes, Dean's folks could afford to give their populist-Democrat son "nearly $1 million in cash gifts over the last two decades, including a single gift of $200,000 in the early 1980s."

And what about that membership in the Maidstone?

Dean insisted that just because his parents belonged to a club that excluded blacks and Jews, it didn't mean they were actually racist. Although, truth be told, from time to time the occasional racial epithet did slip out.

"Yes, there was sort of this casual racism, in terms of the racist expressions that were used by that generation," he told the Times. "But in all, I think my family was pretty open-minded about different kinds of people."

[mass55th]

No wonder Gore endorsed Dean. Dean's family belonged to a country club that excluded jews and blacks, and Gore's family made the black help wait in the car when they went into all-white restaurants to eat. Yeah, these two guys have alot in common.

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[RandallFlagg]

Wow! The more I read about this guy....

....the more laughing I'll be doing the night of the elections.

[TrebleRebel]

In other news, former president Bill Clinton mentioned he resented being portrayed by the media as a womanizer.

"I'm very concerned about people, all people. In fact, I've worked for years with unwed mothers, helping them get their start," Clinton stated.

[kitkat]

***In fact, space was so tight there was barely enough room for baby Howard's live-in nurse.***

I looked twice to see if this was from the Onion. "baby Howard's live-in nurse"!!!!!! I can see women all over this country sobbing with jealousy.

[RonHolzwarth]

"humble multimillion-dollar
(OXYMORON ALERT!)
Upper East Side digs", (where space) "was so tight there was barely enough room for baby Howard's live-in nurse."

"could afford to give their populist-Democrat son "nearly $1 million in cash gifts over the last two decades, including a single gift of $200,000 in the early 1980s.""

"His parents belonged to a club that excluded blacks and Jews, it didn't mean they were actually racist."
(oh, RIGHT!)

"But in all, I think my family was pretty open-minded about different kinds of people."
(As long as they were RICH, WHITE, and NOT Jewish?)

"I am not in the least bit embarrassed about how I grew up."
(YOU OUGHT TO BE!!!)

Wow, if Jesus Himself had showed up at that club, He would NOT have been allowed in!

Because, He's a JEW!!!

And I suppose we will get to see you on TV ads praying to that particular Jew, huh?

Are you gonna shake hands with Blacks too?

Glad I heard all about this well before election day,,,

[searchandrecovery]

I think we've narrowed down the source of Dean's foot-in-mouth disease - it's hereditary.

[KneelBeforeZod]

"Yes, there was sort of this casual racism, in terms of the racist expressions that were used by that generation," he told the Times. "But in all, I think my family was pretty open-minded about different kinds of people."

"They're a very musical people, aren't they?"

[Ronin]

"When I was growing up, we didn't even treat the servants like servants."

Must... resist.... crude... humor.....

[billybudd]

The article is already sarcastic - there's no need to point out "oxymorons" and other intentionally silly statements.

[hershey]

"Openminded about different kinds of people???" Dean doesn't have a clue, but then neither do the dems. As in: God forbid that poor people of any color should have vouchers so their kids can get a decent education. As in: The wealthy Cambridge area (Harvard Friends), which included Julia Child, et. al., organized to keep a private school for poor black children out of the neighborhood.

[Northern Yankee]

Can I try that?

Let me see... when we were growing up we didn't treat our friends like our friends... ummmm nope.

We didn't treat our neighbors like our neighbors? Nah...

We didn't treat our cousins like our cousins? Nada...

We didn't treat our parents like our parents? No sir!

Guess you gotta have servants to make that kind of stupid remark.

BTW... Just how do you treat servants? I'd really like to know!(In case I run into one!)

[White Eagle]

Along with the crude humor, I wonder if the Deans paid FICA on the servant wages...

[11th Earl of Mar]

I would love to find this article written by a more cedible sourse so I could post it at DU.

[mewzilla]

Wonder if Howie employs any servants...

[Rebelbase]

"Dean insisted that just because his parents belonged to a club that excluded blacks and Jews, it didn't mean they were actually racist."

More foot in mouth from Dean. The longer this goes on, the more I am convinced that the Democratic Party will not nominate him, possibly pushing Dean into a 3rd party run, making him a Ross Perot spoiler.

[Ditter]

This is funny. At least George Bush has the good sense to not even mention the word servant. Way to get the southern black vote Howie!

[chadwimc]

I can't resist crude humor. I'm still looking for the late Strom Thurmond's Christmas CD. The one with the hit single "What child is this"...

[Ronin]

You're lucky my coffee cup was not in my hands when I read that or I would be sending you a bill for a new keyboard.