Posted on 04/21/2006 6:39:00 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
April 21, 1006 — In one of those odd political moments that combine a poignant message with somewhat opportunistic maneuvering, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean took part in a cleanup effort in flood-ravaged New Orleans and used the moment to take a shot at the Republicans.
In his first post-Katrina visit to the Crescent City, Dean helped Acorn, a nonprofit community group that works with low-income families, to clean out Vincent Cooper's flood-damaged home on Derbigny Street in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans.
"I don't want to be partisan at a time like this, but this is why the Republicans are going to be out of business," Dean said, pointing to the destruction around him. "Nine months after the hurricane, to have this? This is ridiculous. This is not the America we grew up in."
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"I don't mean to be partisan, but I'm going to anyways..."
What a toad.
How ironic.
Dean is putting the democrats out of business!
Excuse me, Mr. Dean, have you heard about the senior CIA official, who has contributed large amounts of money to Democrat politicians, being arrested today?
oops, she was just fired. We don't know if she's been "frogmarched" anywhere.
Right.
Nagin is blocking homes from being leveled.
Residents are suing even cleaning up the streets.
I have never seen a high level figure as unimformed as dean.
How can anyone take this guy seriously after his "I Have a Scream" speech?
Howard Dean is a never ending Hurricane that will blow away any chances the Democrats have in 2006 and beyond.
David Brooks got the Dims' hopes up around Katrina. Thats all they have.
If Katrina was all the GOP's fault, then let Howard Dean explain why Nagin is going to get trounced in the NO mayoral election. Even the "chocolate" (Nagin's reference, not mine) people are repudiating him.
funny though isnt all the buffoons in the new orleans fiasco rats
And "I don't want to be partisan at a time like this', Dr. Dean but did you hear about the senior Dem on the Ethics Committee who had to step down because he's being investigated?
This might put the Dems out of business!
The dark chocolate has had it with the milk chocolate.
He is Vermont's Village Idiot, completely lacking in integrity.
When Dean is around, something IS fishy!
No, it's not Howard. Your America was private schools and the rest of the Dean/Witter privilege that was Your America
"WE VILL BURY YOU!!!" Nikita Dean
ACORN = Rent A Mob.
"This is ridiculous. This is not the America we grew up in."
Well, now, Howard! Lest we all forget, we should review how/where you grew up:
Howard Dean was born in the Town of East Hampton to Howard Brush Dean, Jr., a former corporate executive, and Andrée Belden Maitland, an art appraiser.[1] He was the oldest of the four children of the couple, all boys.Dean's father worked on Wall Street for Dean Witter Reynolds; the family was quite wealthy, Republican, and belonged to the very exclusive Maidstone Golf Club in East Hampton, which excluded Jews and other minorities.
As a child of a wealthy and prominent New York family, he spent much of his time growing up in East Hampton; the family built a house on Hook Pond there in the mid-1950s. There the boys–Howard, Charlie, Jim and Bill–"rode bikes, played with a model train set, [and] built elaborate underground forts." While in New York, the family had a three-bedroom apartment on the Upper East Side part of Park Avenue, which Dean still sometimes stays in when he visits the city. The apartment was rented by Dean's father for $200 a month after World War II and eventually bought for $9,500.
Dean attended the Browning School in Manhattan until he was 13, then went to St. George's School, a preparatory school in Middletown, Rhode Island.
Though Dean's early life was privileged, political opponents were reluctant to seize upon it. UPI quoted one of Dean's friends in his youth as saying "By Hamptons standards, the Deans were not rich. No safaris in Africa or chalets in Switzerland. Howard's father went to work every day. He didn't own a company, or have a father or grandfather who founded one.
It does not take a particularly brilliant mind, or especially keen insight, to recognize that the Lower 9th Ward [even in pre-Katrina times] is far removed from the America [Howard Dean] grew up in. What a prat!
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