Howard Dean on Situation Room on Friday

[madfloridian]

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From the transcript, a healing message:

"BLITZER: You know, there's going to be a lot of demoralized Democrats out there. They can taste victory, certainly in the House, almost in the Senate. It's going to be much more difficult in the Senate, as you well know. There's going to be a lot of demoralized, depressed Democrats out there if you don't win.

DEAN: Well, maybe so. But I would hope that that wouldn't happen, because this is a long-term struggle to take back this country so that we can be the great moral leader of the world once again.

We're going to do things a lot differently than we have in the past, should we prevail, should the voters restore Democrats to power.

The first thing we're going to do is avoid the polarization that the president has used to govern for the last six years. We're going to welcome everybody. We're going to respectfully talk to the people who don't agree with us, because they probably have some good ideas about how to run-America, as well. We're going to respect people's beliefs in their families.

We want to heal America and yes, there will be a lot of partisanship, because the Republicans have basically divided this country bitterly in the last six years.

We need -- if you want to make America work, we've got to be in it together."

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/03/sitroom.01.html

[JDPriestly]

1. Excellent.

We need to go back to representative government in which dissent of all kinds is respected. That's the most important reason we Democrats need to take over at least one house in Congress. If we get the House of Representatives, we can shame the Senate into respecting our governing process -- the process that the founders contemplated -- the process described in the Federalist Papers in which individual members of the legislature represent the people from their districts, not just international big business.

We will not be disappointed if we don't win the Senate. Once we get the House, the Senate will follow in two years.

[davidwparker]

2. thanks for posting. Always good to hear from Dean.