Happy 70th birthday to an amazing Democrat who changed history for the better

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4. Dean was my choice for 2004.

I gave a lot of money (for me anyway) to his campaign and worked like hell for him from Florida, where I was living at the time. Then the media trashed him for the "Dean scream," never giving the full story of the rally in Iowa, and the 3,500 Deaniacs in that small dance hall who Dean had to talk over. It was awful. The late night hosts savaged him, the news anchors asked if he had the "right temperament" for the Presidency. Yet they gave Donald Trump a complete pass during the 2016 GOP primaries. Without the media (and Putin, and Comey, and Assange etc.) Donald Trump would still be fleecing real estate buyers today. But Howard Dean was too much for them?

Without Howard Dean I believe we wouldn't have had a "blue wave" this year. He showed Democrats how small donors could compete with the fat cats who courted politicians like flies to shit. He got young people excited about politics again, and laid the groundwork for political activism that we're still using today.

Howard Dean would have made a fantastic President. Happy Birthday to a man who has my total respect and admiration!