CCC invites Howard Dean to its national meeting

[onehandle]

Open Letter to Howard Dean

Dear Governor Dean:

We wish to commend you for your recent statements in your campaign expressing sympathy for "white folks in the South who drive pickup trucks with Confederate flag decals on the back." We also wish to deplore the racial demagoguery with which your remarks have been unjustly denounced by your fellow Democrats.

While we disagree with you on many other issues (including your comments that the Confederate flag is "loathsome" and "racist"), we believe you are entirely right that the Democratic Party (as well as the Republicans) have ignored the kind of Americans you are talking about -- the very kind who make up the backbone of America as well as the majority of the Council of Conservative Citizens.

We urge you and all other candidates who understand the importance of such Americans to national politics and to nation itself to make a new appeal to them and their needs, values, and interests. These needs go far beyond such matters as "health insurance."

While health care is certainly of major importance, such issues as the deliberate destruction and demonization of our culture -- the Confederate flag and similar symbols in particular -- and the disappearance of our jobs through irresponsible free trade policies also need to be addressed. The dispossession of white Americans through the mass immigration that political leaders have permitted and encouraged is also a major threat that white Americans of all regions and conditions confront.

In the Council of Conservative Citizens, we have been trying to speak to these issues for years, and we have made an increasing number of Americans aware of their importance.

We would like to invite you, Gov. Dean, to attend the National Board of Directors meeting we are holding in Nashville, Tennessee next week (November 14-15th) and to address our group briefly along the lines you mentioned in Boston.

http://www.cofcc.org/events.htm

[Code_Name_D]

1. Ha ha. Clark knows where the votes are.

And mean while, Clark, the Pancia man, goes on a whild Osama hunt.

[onehandle]

2. Who mentioned Clark?

[Bandit]

3. A sticky wicket.

Don't go and don't agree with their confederate flag agenda. Go to the South and talk to the people but not to a known racist group. I realize this is to make Dean look like he can talk the talk but can't walk the walk. It is apples and oranges. Not very many of those driving pickups with rebel flags on the bumper belong to the CCC or would ever join such a group of racists. Handle this with acumen and you will make more believers in your cause.

[bushisanidiot]

4. This is easy: Dean Tells CCC To Screw Themselves & That They

took his statement out of context.

this is a good opportunity for Dean to stand up and say what he thinks of racists/racism.

[walkon]

8. Accept the Invite

On the condition that the CCC guarantees live television coverage - and then tell them in the speech exactly where he stands on the issues dear to their heart and denounce racism at the same time.

[Patriot_Spear]

5. Be careful what you wish for...

What if Dean shows up and takes them to task for their racist agenda? what if Dean shows up with Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson?

...heh, heh, heh... the mind boggles at the possibilities for fun! How quickly the tables would turn if 1000 Dean supporters show up to make sure Dr. Dean get's heard...

[belle]

15. That'd be fascinating, but I doubt they'd come...

pity, really, it'd be a great show.

[IndianaGreen]

6. dupe

this was posted a couple of days ago in GD forum. Why is it being posted again, I don't know.

[meegbear]

7. A couple days ago ..

people post the same story a few times a day here. A couple days ago is no biggie.

[JaneQPublic]

11. But "a couple of days ago" means its not LBN (n/t)

[IndianaGreen]

12. Originally posted on November 9, which means it is NOT LBN

Here is the link to thread started by Kahuna on November 9:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=678929

[onehandle]

9. I thought this was new...

I searched and could not find it.

[IndianaGreen]

13. I remember the original thread

but I had to go to the archives to find the URL.

[kwolf68]

10. OMG

Any word on Dean's response?

It's a proverbial joke that our leading candidate has an A+ rating from the NRA and now has the CCC wanting him to come speak to them.

Admittedly, this all probably has a good justification, but Dean isn’t being aligned (not his fault per se) with groups I am interested in being aligned with.

I believe Dean should decline the interview. Going there to denounce them won’t happen and will give these boobs a forum they don’t deserve.

My hope is Dean will decline and simply say he categorically rejects their stances.

[IndianaGreen]

14. CCC is like the KKK

here is the link to the original thread posted on November 9, which means this is NOT a legitimate LBN story:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=678929

[VolcanoJen]

16. Not LBN... locking.

The news of CCC's invitation to Gov. Dean was first reported in the General Discussion Forum on November 9th, in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=678929

Please feel free to start a new discussion about this topic, or join an existing one, in the General Discussion Forum.

Thanks!
VolcanoJen
DU Moderator