Reply #11: Admire's Deans organization [View All]

[Donna Zen]

He has said that many times. Dean political handlers will try to weaken any potential rival, that is what they are paid to do.

Fear is not the factor.

The factor is whether "we the people" can separate the politics from the reality. I just read a post, heart-felt an honest it is true, were a very nicely reasoned individual expressed doubts about being a Democrat because Dean's critics made politics seem somehow misguided.

I will repeat my little tale of caution that I've posted here before: The year is 1968 and I was "clean for Gene". It was summer in Chicago and I was answering phones in a hotel room trying to get help and coordinate the movement on the street. At that point, I hated the Democratic Party. Now I come from a long line of Dems including a mother who served as an elected official for 30 years, but my experience caused me to change my registration to "Indy." And more than that, I refused to vote in the presidental election. Now my one vote meant nothing, but I assume I was not alone in aiding the criminal Nixon take power. Two years later at Kent State, my government was shotting at me.

Fear is not the factor; but ignorance is a bitch.