Transcript: Howard Dean on 'FOX News Sunday'[good read if you missed it]

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[Sub-Driver]

The following is a transcribed excerpt from FOX News Sunday, Dec. 7, 2003.

CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS: In just six weeks, voters in Iowa begin the process of choosing the Democratic presidential nominee. For some pundits, the outcome seems almost certain already.

[areafiftyone]

[Paul Atreides]

I have to give Dean for appearing on Fox. The smartest woman in the world won't even do that much.

[jatfla]

It was difficult to watch this....I miss Tony Snow!!! Maybe I'll be ok later, but not now.

If Dean doesn't talk, I can look at him. He gives me the willies.

"They (the Administration) don't seem to care about ordinary people. They'll do everything for corporations."

What a lie. I'm sure they (the Administration) is doing as much as they can for the "corporations", but to say that the Administration doesn't care about me?? well, as best they can, they are.

Dean took the whole issue of releasing the "files" out of his hands and put it into the hands of the court. Maybe good, but probably bad considering our court system.

[Reagan Man]

Seeing is believing.

And Howie Dean is a sight to behold.

Bush in a landslide!

[Sub-Driver]

howard mondale in my opinion...

[Vermonter]

Dean took the whole issue of releasing the "files" out of his hands and put it into the hands of the court.

And who do you think appointed most of the Vermont judges? The same ones who gave Vermont Civil Unions and an oppresive property tax?

[sarasmom]

I sincerely hope Dean wins the nomination for the Democrats.
Talk about a landslide for GWB!

[Kevin Curry]

The man is a bona fide saliva-spittling disaster!

I especially found it interesting how obviously and painfully uncomfortable he is discussing the gay rights agenda and where he stands relative to it.

[Vermonter]

I especially found it interesting how obviously and painfully uncomfortable he is discussing the gay rights agenda and where he stands relative to it.

He stayed on the sidelines during the debate in Vermont over Civil Unions. He then signed the law behind closed doors with no media present

[areafiftyone]

From all indications he will win. Unless Kerry or Clark pulls and upset victory - Dean is way ahead in the polls. He's even pulling ahead of Edwards in SC. Then Bush will slaughter him.

[Maceman]

"They (the Administration) don't seem to care about ordinary people. They'll do everything for corporations."

More of that world-famous nuanced Democrat analysis. For people who claim to be nuanced, Democrats certainly do throw out an awful lot of idiotic black and white absurdities.

[Let's Roll]

"He gives me the willies." Me too. EggsAckley has a tagline that says

"Dean's got Tom McClintock eyes".

[Sonny M]

"They (the Administration) don't seem to care about ordinary people. They'll do everything for corporations."

This coming from the same guy, when he was governor liked to brag that he has a "special relationship" with big business. On this campaign he bragged how he used to call up some corporations once a week to make sure he could clear any hurdles for them. If he didn't do it, he made sure somone from his office did.

This was supposed to be his way of showing people that he is not anti-business. I swear to god, he seems to be writing the ads for bush to use against him.

[JusPasenThru]

Democrats-->corporations-->bad.
Republicans-->corporations-->good.

I'm sure glad Howard is avoiding the Manichaean view of the cosmos.

[Conservative til I die]

DEAN: What the Republicans have been doing since 1968 was actually the subject of a speech I'm about to give in a couple of hours here in South Carolina, is dividing us along racial lines by talking about quotas, dividing us about abortion or guns or other issues like that.

So, basically he's upset that the Republicans have different viewpoints than him on these topics.

[risk]

At least some of Dean's criticism of the Bush administration's handling of military and veterans' benefits are valid, such as the 164,000 cut from veteran's benefits, but there are two sides to the story on the healthcare cuts. I think President Bush should address those concerns either by explaining how his proposals will compensate for the differences, or by rescinding them.

Here's a summary of the cuts and eliminations I know about:

• The current budget involoves cuts to military families for housing and education costs:
  
  • It will force cuts in veteran’s benefits,
  • There will be $200 million in cuts to impact aid to the very same school districts that educate the children of military families.
  • As many as 230,000 military families have been cut out of the low-income child tax credit provision currently on the books.
• According to the Army Times, President Bush proposed cutting back combat pay from $225/month to $150. There's also talk of capping E1,22 and O1 raises at %2.
  
• The the latest  budget proposals as of June didn't extend certain tax breaks for troops.
• Republicans have opposed healthcare benefits for reservists.

I disagree with all of these cuts. We need to increase the economic incentives for joining the military and serving in harm's way, not reduce it. It's clear to me that on this "domestic" issue, the pluralism of our two party system is serving the interests of national security. George Washington said: "The willingness of future generations to serve in our military will be directly dependent upon how we have treated those who have served in the past."

Do I give credit to Dean for bringing up these concerns? No way. He's just using a concern near and dear to the hearts of Americans to get attention.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Yes. It will be a landslide.

[Go Gordon]

Every industrialized country in the world has health insurance except for us.

The big lie. He caught himself using the term "health care", then corrected himslf and used the term "health insurance". To the unwashed, its one and the same. But it is totally different. ALL people can go to the emergrncy room when ever they need to, and will NEVER be denied "health care". [Wallace didn't correct Dean, and allowed him to be deceitful]

And then, at the end of last summer, he [Bush] says he's going to cut combat pay, or dangerous pay, for the veterans.

Another lie, Bush's administration has raised the pay for the military. [another lie that when unrefuted by Wallace

when the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union collapsed, it came down for two reasons, other than internal stuff in the Soviet Union. One is that we have a strong military, and I think a strong military is important. The other is that most people behind the Iron Curtain wanted to be like us. And today there are not very many countries, after three years of George W. Bush's presidency, where people want to be like us anymore.

The arms race, and specifically the prospect of SDI, bankrupted the old USSR. Dean just couldn't pull himself to give Reagan any credit. Also, the other big lie about people not wanted to be like the USA. I don't see people fleeing in droves from US, renouncing citizenship, and buying plane tickets to go to Indonesia, North Korea, the Middle East and Africa, let alone Europe. [another big lie that Wallace let go]

What the Republicans have been doing since 1968 was actually the subject of a speech I'm about to give in a couple of hours here in South Carolina, is dividing us along racial lines by talking about quotas, dividing us about abortion or guns or other issues like that.

Wallace should have given Coward Dean a little history lesson on the Democrats being stridently against the civil rights bills, right up to and including when the Act was passed in 1964, while the few RATs that did vote for it, were dragged kicking and screaming. IMHO, Wallace is no better than Crissey "squat-to-pee" Mathews. He's a lightweight.

[jagrmeister]

Only two things to remember about Dean:

1. He proposes raising taxes on the American people by $2 trillion over the next 10 years.

2. He is a novice peacenik with no foreign policy experience who, by his own admission, be too timid to stare down Saddam Hussein and has called terrorists "soldiers". Not the guy you want leading the war on terrorism.