Distance Learning C-Span Q & A session with Howard Dean and college students

[madfloridian]

He answers questions about his campaign, the "scream", how too many candidates fail to realize the internet is a "community". He mentioned how the Dean community in 04 gathered around a woman having many family problems, helped provide for her when she was really down and out. Says Iran will be a regional power because we invaded Iraq, but staying in Iraq will not solve that problem. We need to get out.

Discusses primaries and 50 state strategy. Discusses immigration, drivers' licenses for them. Answers questions about the DLC. Best when a think tank, but starting getting involved in politics. Says they should put out ideas, but not supporting candidates...it brings out the worst in them.

Video at C-Span, quite long:

http://www.c-span.org/Distance_Learning/

Universities involved in the 3-way questioning.

http://gmupoljourn.blogspot.com/2007/10/two-guests-on-thursday.html

3-4:15 p.m., Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Dean is the former governor of Vermont and a 2004 Democratic presidential candidate who is credited as the first candidate to use the Internet effectively.

Both Rainie and Dean will join C-SPAN Political Editor Steve Scully in the network's Washington, D.C. studio. Students from George Mason, Denver and Pace universities participate in the two-way, live video conferences. The Dean session will be televised and streamed on C-SPAN3 Friday at 5 p.m. Sessions are also archived online.

A website transcribed part of it about the primaries.

http://www.extrememortman.com/presidential-election/state-of-dean-ial

Steve Scully: “Governor, you talked about 1976 and we’ve talked about it in this class when Jimmy Carter ran in January, Feb, and didn’t lock up the nomination until June of 1976. And now ostensibly by February 5th, this process will be completed. Is that good or bad?”

Howard Dean: “It is incredibly unlikely that it’ll be completed on February 5th. I think one of two things will happen; we have a pretty strong field this year, so either someone will sweep three or four of the first four, and they’ll have locked it up by January 29th or whenever it is. Or they’ll split the first four fairly evenly,in which case they’ll split the February 5th states and we won’t know who the nominee is –most likely– until sometime in March.

“If I could push a button and do anything I wanted, I’d move this whole thing back, but there’s been this tug of war over who’s going to go first for a long time. And in 2012, I think we’re going to have to do something fairly drastic to fix this. Because we can’t go on with this sort of disorder. We need real order in the primary process and we also need fairness and inclusiveness to every region in the country and every group of voters in the process.”

This appearance was apparently the same day as his speech at John Hopkins MSE Symposium. That was on last night on C-Span, but not yet up at the C-Span website. It was good to see him answering so many questions.

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1. howard is a giant in a crowd of political wannabees nt

[madfloridian]

2. I hope they replay that John Hopkins speech.

It was almost an hour long, my hubby got teary and said that almost sounds like the old Howard Dean used to sound before he became chairman.

He did say one thing kind of funny. He was defending Congress strongly. Then he said he wasn't doing it because he had to do it, since most of those guys didn't want him in the position anyway. I had to chuckle as that was true.