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See earlier thread: FR Exclusive: Howard Dean donor writes novel on how to assassinate Bush ********************************************************************** NEW YORK - Yes, there are limits to what George Bush (news - web sites) haters will read. "Checkpoint," the controversial Nicholson Baker novel about a man who wants to kill the president, has sold fewer than 6,500 copies since coming out two weeks ago, the book's publisher said Friday. "Not every book you publish becomes a best seller," said Paul Bogaards, executive director of publicity for Alfred A. Knopf. Bogaards said sales for the book, which had a first printing of 60,000, had...

Matthews: Seeing Son Campaign for Dean “One of Happiest Moments” Like father, like son? MSNBC’s Chris Matthews boasted Wednesday night to Howard Dean how “one of my happiest moments of the campaign was watching my son Michael, who goes to Brown, out campaigning for you.” The MRC’s Geoff Dickens caught this bit of information in a question Matthews posed on MSNBC, at about 6:50pm EDT, to Howard Dean: "Personally, as a father, one of my happiest moments of the campaign was watching my son Michael, who goes to Brown, out campaigning for you when we were, when we were covering...

BOSTON -- Howard Dean says many of his presidential campaign's decisions were directed by the grass roots, so he intends to let convention delegates pledged to him decide whether they should support John Kerry. "We can't just release them," Dean said between visits Monday morning to various state delegations preparing for the opening of the Democratic National Convention. Dean planned a 90-minute meeting Monday with the roughly 120 delegates pledged to him by virtue of the votes he won during the caucuses and primaries. The former Vermont governor has made clear since dropping out of the race in February that...

BOSTON - Howard Dean (news - web sites) isn't running for president anymore, but you'd never know it from the reception he got Sunday night. Speaking to a crowd of young voters at a party sponsored by Rock the Vote and Democratic Gain, Dean was welcomed like a rock star. He could barely get through the crowd. Once he reached the stage, with his shirt sleeves characteristically rolled up above the elbows, he was greeted with chants of "Dean, Dean, Dean" echoing back to his rallies this past winter, when the former Vermont governor was running for the Democratic nomination....

After former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean’s protest-fueled primary campaign crashed, he reconstituted his effort as Democracy for America. Mobilizing its Internet-coordinated grassroots base, Democracy for America will work for progressive candidates and long-term change in the Democratic Party. In These Times recently talked to Dean about the presidential race and his own work. There’s a hardcore anti-Bush sentiment, but at this point not a good deal of enthusiasm about Kerry as the candidate. Are there ways in which you think he could overcome that? My view of all of Democratic politics is that we’ve been making a mistake. The Republicans...

Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean went from asterisk to front-runner without ever winning a primary, but his campaign raised more than $42 million in the process. CNN producer Kate Albright-Hanna was given exclusive access to the Dean campaign starting in the summer of 2003 and documents the rise and fall of the Dean campaign in "True Believers: Inside the Dean Campaign."

WASHINGTON -- On primary night in New Hampshire, Deaniacs gathered outside Kerry's victory party to hurl insults. The polls had been closed for more than an hour and Kerry's margin of victory was known to be somewhere around 20 points, yet these folks refused to be magnanimous in defeat. Kerry supporters were shocked into silence as they crossed this angry gauntlet. A few weeks later, Dean encouraged this petulance. After slipping up and calling his opponent "President Kerry," Dean corrected the record. He rolled his eyes and scoffed, "President Kerry. Please, spare us." Over the next couple days, he would...

Draft Dean for VP Committee has Bloc of 350 Delegates Committed to Floor Fight in Boston LOS ANGELES, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Draft Dean for VP Committee (NDVPC) announced today that it would use Democratic party rules allowing draft petitions to mount a floor fight at the Democratic National Convention in Boston July 25 to put former Vermont Governor Howard Dean's name in contention for the party's VP nomination. Recent polls show Nader's candidacy engulfing Kerry's slim margins over Bush in 15 out of 18 battleground states. "People are suddenly realizing that Nader is going to cost...

Senator John Kerry's new television ad is intended to establish his macho credentials, playing up his skills as a pilot, outdoorsman and athlete, as well as to mention his support from military leaders who served during Republican and Democratic administrations. And some of that Pentagon-style backing was on vivid display on Wednesday, when retired Gen. Merrill A. McPeak, a former Air Force chief of staff and a 2000 supporter of President Bush, lashed out at the Bush administration's Iraq strategy in a conference call in support of Mr. Kerry. "I was flabbergasted almost immediately, from the first day of this...

In Nicholson Baker's new novella, "Checkpoint," a man sits in a Washington hotel room with a friend and talks about assassinating President Bush. It's a work of the imagination and no attempts on the president's life are actually made, but the novel is likely to be incendiary, as with Michael Moore's documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11." Flush with the headline-generating success of "My Life," by Bill Clinton, Alfred A. Knopf is planning to publish Baker's work Aug. 24, on the eve of the Republican National Convention. "Checkpoint" is 115 pages long and will sell for $18.

In Nicholson Baker's new novella, "Checkpoint," a man sits in a Washington hotel room with a friend and talks about assassinating President Bush.It's a work of the imagination and no attempts on the president's life are actually made, but the novel is likely to be incendiary, as with Michael Moore's documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11." Flush with the headline-generating success of "My Life," by Bill Clinton, Alfred A. Knopf is planning to publish Baker's work Aug. 24, on the eve of the Republican National Convention. "Checkpoint" is 115 pages long and will sell for $18. Though it is against the law to...

That saucy Dennis Miller still plays the recording on his program on CNBC, but now Howard Dean, the sore loserman of 2004, claims the scream that finished his campaign "never happened." Trying to explain away his crazy, red-faced rant after his loss in Iowa, Dean recently told a crowd of broadcasters in Washington that he was merely trying to make himself heard over his loudmouth supporters, Broadcasting & Cable magazine reports. He claimed that none of the (pro-Democrat) reporters on hand who heard the speech noted anything unusual and that it "was only the next day, when their editors...

Joan Blades received a standing ovation, which is not at all unusual these days when she appears before "progressive" activist groups around the country. A thin, cerebral-looking woman with glasses and a 60's-ish hairstyle, Blades is the co-founder of MoveOn.org, the Internet-based group that is raising and spending millions of dollars to defeat President George W. Bush. This time, appearing June 3 before a gathering organized by the liberal organizing group Campaign for America's Future in Washington, Blades wanted to say something she'd been thinking about for quite a while. She told the audience her talk had been titled,...

MONTPELIER, Vt. - Howard Dean’s presidential campaign is still making money, even though the former Vermont governor dropped his bid for the White House in February. The campaign received $626,615 in contributions last month, according to a filing this week with the Federal Election Commission. His campaign had $2 million in the bank and owed $1.2 million at the end of March, and was owed $67,266.

John Kerry and Howard Dean Hold Rally at George Washington University for America's Future 3/24/2004 11:55:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor Contact: Katharine Lister of John Kerry for President, 202-712-3000 News Advisory: John Kerry and Howard Dean will hold a rally at George Washington University on Thursday, March 25 at 11:15 a.m. to talk about the importance of the upcoming election to put America back on track. Following the rally, Howard Dean will host an online Webchat live from George Washington University at 1 p.m. EST. Join the Webchat on Thursday by going to http://www.johnkerry.com and click...

Howard Dean is taking his fall from political grace and giving it an upgrade — call it DFA 2.0. In this version, he's trying to turn a loss into a whole different brand of victory. The former Vermont governor announced his plans Thursday for a new organization, Democracy for America, in an effort to channel the momentum from his now-defunct Dean for America presidential campaign into helping other Democratic candidates take back the White House and Congress. "You have the power to make this new organization matter and to use it to change America," he told an eager crowd in...

NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 2004--Supporters inspired by the campaign of Howard Dean have launched a new web movie that joins the former Presidential contender's renewed push for change. The movie, created by Cinemetrix of Newton, Massachusetts on behalf of independent followers, thanks Dean for his successful effort in energizing the Democratic party and preparing the electorate for the forthcoming campaign. The timing for this intense grassroots effort couldn't be better, as Dean is poised to announce his new organization for political change, Democracy for America, today in Seattle and San Francisco. The new movie, which can be seen at www.ThankYouHoward.com,...

<p>WASHINGTON -- In the ashes of Howard Dean's failed presidential campaign lies a valuable and coveted asset: a list of 700,000 people willing to work, organize and give money for a political cause.</p> <p>The Democratic Party wants the list of Dean's supporters. John Kerry's presidential campaign would like to benefit from it. And several interest groups allied with Democrats would love to harness the list for their own causes.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — Still wearing a “Hawkeyes for Dean,” T-shirt, Ryan Taugher is uncertain of where to throw his support with his hero, former Vermont governor Howard Dean (search), who dropped out of the Democratic presidential race almost two weeks ago.</p>

ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb 27 (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards took his campaign to Minnesota on Friday, where he picked up the support of activists who had once pledged allegiance to former front-runner Howard Dean. Edwards, who has won only one of the 20 electoral contests thus far and trails in the polls to Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, pledged to continue his quest even if he does not win any of the 10 Super Tuesday contests next week. The North Carolina senator said the decision by "Minnesota for Dean" supporters to back his campaign would help boost his...