The Case for Obama: An Interview with Howard Dean

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Wajahat Ali
Posted September 21, 2008 | 08:34 PM (EST)

The Case for Obama: An Interview with Howard Dean


In the midst of a historic and heated Presidential election, Howard Dean, the opinionated and passionate chairman of the Democratic National Committee, sat for this exclusive interview to make his case for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.

We discuss Democratic "cultural values," the legacy of the Bush administration, the differences between the Democratic and the Republican parties, the current economic crisis, and how to deal with the Muslim world and the "war on terror."

ALI: The addition of Sarah Palin to the Republican campaign, which has revitalized the Republican base and won over many undecided voters, suggests Republicans still maintain the stronghold on "cultural values." Republicans portray themselves successfully as harbingers of morality, security, God and stability. Democrats are painted as Godless, elitist, baby killing, homosexual pornographers. How do you convince the American voter that your party best represents their "cultural values?"

DEAN: All you have to do is look at the past 8 years. I mean Bush and McCain have talked for 8 years all about "their cultural values." Look where we are today? We see bankruptcies. We see a government that cares more about mortgage companies than mortgage holders. In short, they've turned out to be a total fraud. Here, McCain is talking about what he's going to do to change Wall Street. He was part of a huge banking scandal about 15 years ago!

The voters have figured out that the Republicans talk about values, but they don't really have many. The Democrats, on the other hand, have been quietly plugging along, and really doing things for people. When we took over again in 2006, one of the first things we did was we raised the minimum wage. That gets a long way to assure equal pay for women. The next thing we did was restore the Pell Grants (student loans) that Republicans had cut.

But I think we have much better values than the Republicans, which seem to be "you're on your own, and we're gonna' get what we want out of the government and out of the tax payers."

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1. Good answers Dean to all the repuke talking points this interviewer

could find.

This is one of the points mccain and palin are lying about the most..
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"DEAN: I think we can do a lot to turn the tide. What Senator Obama wants do is instead of giving tax cuts to Exxon Mobil - what Senator McCain has proposed - we want to give tax cuts to the middle class Americas so they get the benefit of their taxpayers' money. Secondly, we need to focus on students and make it easier for them to get into college and help build a future."

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This is one of the things I like Obama, too..I didn't realize it at first but then it slowly dawned on me how long run important this is.

"One of the things I admire about Senator Obama is that he wants to be the president of all the people, not just those who agree with him. So I think the country will be far better off Frankly, you can't behave one way and then expect something different. I mean if people want four more years of George Bush, they should definitely vote for John McCain. If people want to heal the country, they should vote for Obama. You can't behave one way during the election and then a different way afterward and then maintain any credibility at all. That's why Bush and McCain have no credibility."