Posted on 01/04/2004 2:08:24 AM PST by 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."
I'm pretty nice to the guys who deliver my newspapers.
ML/NJ
Eeeeeeeewwwww! DUmpster Diving, AGAIN???!!!!
The article is derived from the interview with Ma Dean last week in the New York Times. Between the two, clearly Newsmax is vastly more credible. Go with the more credible source.
Make no mistake. Hitlery is running in 2004. Dean is in her way. If he wasn't such a repugnant UnAmerican turd, I would almost pity him.
"Saddam Hussein interrogators said Saddam appears delusional, grandiose and thinks he still can be elected president. I'm sorry that's not Saddam, that's Howard Dean." Craig Kilborn
"Howard Dean was endorsed by former Vice President Al Gore and now he is getting advice from Al Gore. And I'm thinking, who better to give advice than the guy who couldn't even get elected with the most votes?" David Letterman
"Howard Dean was endorsed by Al Gore. Now, if Dean could get Gray Davis to campaign for him, that would put him over the top." Jay Leno
"Al Gore has endorsed Howard Dean for president. That's pretty fitting, the guy that didn't beat Bush endorsing the guy who won't beat Bush." David Letterman
"Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at a rally in Harlem ... Gore went on to praise Dean for taking a tough anti-war stance before the invasion of Iraq and he praised Dean supporters in hopes that will ease his concerns over lack of foreign policy experience, and his lack of support among blacks and Latinos, and his hot temperament, and perceived arrogance, and policy flip-flops, and campaign glitches. Well, there's a lot going on here." Jon Stewart
"General Wesley Clark commented on Gore endorsing Howard Dean. He said endorsements don't win elections. Hey, in this country, votes don't even win elections." Jay Leno
"Presidential candidate Howard Dean is now being attacked for dodging the draft. I never knew this about the guy but now I know this guy is presidential material." David Letterman
"The New York Times is reporting that back in the '60s, presidential candidate Howard Dean used a letter from a doctor about a back condition to keep himself out of the draft in Vietnam and then spent 10 months skiing. Well it sounds like he's done the impossible. He actually made Bill Clinton and George Bush look like war heroes." Jay Leno
"Presidential Democratic front-runner Howard Dean admitted to Chris Matthews on the 'Hardball' show that he got out of the draft because of a bad back. He had a curvature of the spine. Apparently it curved too far to the left. Jay Leno
"In a recent interview, Howard Dean admitted that he used to drink and smoke pot. So, now all he needs to put him over the top is a sex scandal." David Letterman
"In his new book, 'Winning Back America,' Dean talks about his wealthy prep school and how he used to get drunk. Let me get this straight he had rich parents, drank a lot, went to prep school and avoided Vietnam. He's the alternative to George Bush? I think he is George Bush." Jay Leno
"Howard Dean is a politician, a medical doctor and a Democrat. So he has three reasons to tell women to take off their clothes now." Jay Leno
"It was reported today that former Governor Howard Dean raised $14 million dollars in campaign funds mostly over the Internet. Of course, Dean's success could be contributed to his Web site: www.wetboobies." Conan O'Brien
"Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean's presidential campaign is handing out tongue depressors to volunteers with his name on them. Wasn't that Clinton's trick?" Jay Leno
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