What the Democratic Party Stands For - Howard Dean's Answer in 30 secs:

[IndyOp]

One: American jobs that will stay in America, using energy independence to generate those jobs.
Two: A strong national defense based on telling the truth to our citizens, our soldiers and our allies.
Three: Honesty and integrity to be restored to government.
Four: A health care system that works for everybody just like they have in 36 other countries.
Five: A strong public education system so we can bring optimism and opportunity back to America."

This is just so damn good I think we all ought to memorize it and teach it to every Dem running for any office in the nation!

I don't like slogans. We do need a clear mission statement to be repeated by candidate after candidate: To break through the Rethug noise machine that is the corporate media; to get people's attention; and to make a lie of the GOP talking point "Dems don't have any plans".

:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:


Dean on Today Show, 1/26/06

Anxious people will follow clear, confident leaders. (And we need 70% turnout and intense interest in the November elections to have a chance to overcome the GOP control over the voting machines and voter rolls and...).

[Mythsaje]

1. Those are GREAT!

Go Howard!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. K & R

[napi21]

3. Did Howard send this to EVERY Dem in the House and Senate?

All of them MUST memorize it and respond with those points every time some MSM idiot asks "So wha t do the Dens stand for????"

I hear it all the time, and the only one able to answer the damn question is Howard! I love him dearly, but that's just a damn sad statement to have to make about the hundreds who are already elected, huh?

[IndyOp]

6. It is a sad statement, and then again, delivering just such a message is

his job - and why he is the *perfect* man for the job right now! I think a huge, huge part of the issue about the Dems message not getting out is the fact that the corporate media has been well trained to ignore and dismiss Dem statements while acting as an echo chamber for GOP statements. That makes a big, big difference. The GOP has shit for plans - destroy social security, stop student loans and survivor benefits so everyone between 16 & 30 will volunteer to go to war, ad nauseum - and yet the echo chamber that is the corporate press somehow spins the shit into "Leadership".

The Dems need our help to catapult the truth into the minds of the people...

:hi:

[Staph]

4. I heard the good Doctor a month ago . . .

Speaking in Charleston, WV. He used the same points then, and had the crowd in the palm of his hand.

For details of the event, see http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=185x1761

[IndyOp]

9. I like the 'balance the budget' item he included in the Charleston event -

I also think something about freedom of speech/basic civil rights is important, too. But the overall list has to be concise!

[sundancekid]

39. w/your additions this could turn into 7 Habits of Effective Democrats

[Justice Is Comin]

5. Dean is ideal

in his role as the man organizing to turn out the vote. I think he has some supersonic unveilings that are are being kept at Area 51 right now until just a couple months before election.

[mzmolly]

7. I adore him so.

:)

[understandinglife]

8. Solid. That's all that any of the Dems interviewed by those two NYT ...

... scumrakers needed to say (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/politics/08dems.html).

I hope from now forward the messaging will be that accurate and that terse.

The only thing I would add is -- We're following Murtha's plan to end, totally, our occupation of Iraq.


Peace.

[IndyOp]

11. I like that: Totally end occupation of Iraq -- and,

I think Howard worked it in by saying "A strong national defense based on telling the truth to our citizens, our soldiers and our allies."

Also, keep in mind that this is 30-second version. A 60-second version can follow and possibilities for expansion by individual candidates is endless.

:hi:

[understandinglife]

30. Yes. I really dig the "strong national defense based on telling the TRUTH

:hi:

A concept, long overdue, that WORKS ....


Peace.

[tridim]

10. Yet tomorrow some RW asshole will still tell the MSM viewers

that the Democrats have absolutely no plan.

[janx]

14. It can only last for so long.

Moderates and independents are sure to see that; it's happening already.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

12. It's so great! He says it in simple words!!

:popcorn:

[FredStembottom]

13. That steals my thunder....

But that's OK! Sounds like he's already there.

I was going to write Dean with my suggestion for an overall Dem slogan for 2006. which is:

"The Democratic Party: We want your job to stay here."

As a blue-collar worker, I can assure you that thoughts of who is toughest-sounding on "terror" melt away like snow in April when the American mind is focused on job worries.

We're scared about where we (or at least our children) are going to get money for food in the future as we continue to hollow out our entire economy!

Everyone is in on this one and it's an issue the Republicans simply cannot broach. We all know now that re-training won't save us. Not now as we watch those jobs we re-trained for disappear, too!

Terror-Schmerror! Where are we going to get MONEY in the future???????

[Gronk Groks]

15. Leave it to Howard to get the message right...

...now we just have to get the message OUT.

LTTEs??? Media buys? The MSM isn't going to do it...
...ideas???

[IndyOp]

16. Yes -> LTTE's; conversations in elevators and parks and school lobbies;

media buys; palm cards; sig lines...

More?

[Gronk Groks]

17. Photocopied flyers with Howards 5 lines posted on...

...anything that will hold still long enough to get stapled????:crazy:

[fob]

18. I like it a lot!

Now it needs an average American short attention span type package...

How about this

The Democrats stand for

American jobs that will stay in America, using energy independence to generate those jobs.
Miltary and a strong national defense based on telling the truth to our citizens, our soldiers and our allies.
Education second to none, a strong public education system so we can bring optimism and opportunity back to America.
Restoring Honesty and Integrity to Government.
Innocent until proven Guilty
Corporate Welfare reform that shifts tax burdens onto an ever shrinking Middle Class
A health care system that works for everybody just like they have in 36 other countries

I'm sure someone can do a better version but the end result is the messae becomes Democrats Stand for AMERICA.

[FreedomAngel82]

27. Ooo I like that!!

That would make a great flyer!

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

19. I Saw This In A Thread Ealier, And Somehow Missed It When It Was Live,

But I love the fact that he responded to the challenge question in that way. I think he frames the issue perfectly and it's definitely a message that can be repeated and repeated.

Go Dean!

[Poiuyt]

20. Clear and concise

[Stephanie]

21. Truth and Justice

even shorter

[Toucano]

22. And Democrats violate each one on a daily basis in the US Congress.

Well, on days when they're in session! :D

[Crazy Guggenheim]

23. Kill joy ......

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[FreedomAngel82]

28. Huh??

[FarLeftRage]

24. Mike Malloy

Just mentioned this... great!!

[derby378]

25. A great start, but get used to slogans...

We've got at least 100 million Americans who've been pigging out on the political equivalent of junk food. You can't expect them to develop a taste for caviar overnight.

And me, I'm a General Tso's chicken man, myself.

[FreedomAngel82]

26. It's perfect

Short, simple and to where anybody can understand and it's good for the tv and radio too.

[Vidar]

29. Dean is an ideal leader, but how to get the others to follow him?

[understandinglife]

31. By "We the People ..." telling the "others" they don't get our VOTE ...

... unless they do ....


Peace.

[OneBlueSky]

32. a good start, but not nearly enough . . .

we need something far more comprehensive, such as . . .

Democratic Pledge to America
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=355682&mesg_id=355682

we also need statements on some of the issues that are most important, and that Americans care most about, i.e. . .

- re-opening the 9/11 investigation
- investigating election fraud, and preventing it in the future
- ensuring privacy rights
- re-regulating corporations, and
- progressive taxation . . .

[Crazy Guggenheim]

33. I think the talking points are a wink-wink nod-nod and implies that.

He cannot directly say to "re-regulating corporations". That's when the begining of the end when he talked about re-regulating the media.

[IndyOp]

35. I like your pledge and, yes, we do need different lengths/versions -

but every speech, every interview starts with Five Simple Statements - until 80 million+ Amurkans have it memorized!!

[Warren DeMontague]

34. A damn fine start.

I'd add LIBERTY, including the inalienable right of people to control their own lives and bodies. But this is solid and concise.

Well Done. This is why he's the right guy for the job.

[mandyky]

36. I used to love it, during the primaries when Howard

would list some of the names of the 36 countries with healthcare. I am giggling right now thinking about it.

Ya did good Howie!!

[Wheezy]

37. And along with strategy,

we need to counter that short talking-point, 'Democrats don't have a plan'. We need to use those one-lined zingers.

Republicans: All talk, no action

Republicans: Great at bashing, failures at government

Republicans are burning a hole in America's pockets.

[Jo March]

38. I just checked and these fit nicely on a standard business card

I used Arial font, 8 point. I bolded the heading and added www.democrats.org at the bottom along with 2 donkeys. It all fit nicely.

Now, I am going to buy some business card stock from Office Depot and start leaving these everywhere and handing them out to everyone I meet. :)

[obreaslan]

41. See what I get for not reading ahead.

Great minds think alike. You're just faster. :)

[Jo March]

45. Well, isn't that the truth?

I love DU - there are always so many good ideas floating around.

:yourock:

[obreaslan]

40. PRINT THIS OUT ON BUSINESS CARDS AND HAND THEM OUT!!!

It's soooooo important that we get this message out there before November.

[iconoclastNYC]

42. The GOP's Five point agenda for America

One: Eliminate Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment and all other components of the social safety net.

Two: Leverage the compliant Supreme Court to create a constitutional dictatorship

Three: Eliminate all restrictions on corporations and capital

Four: Transfer the tax burden from those most able to pay to those least able to pay

Five: Merge state and religious power

[Wordie]

43. K&R...Go Dean! (he is so great for the Democratic party!) eom

[dogday]

44. Americans for America nt

[Historic NY]

46. Way to go Dr. Dean..........

we need something like this, a mantra.

[dogindia]

47. K&R.