Reply #9: I just posted this last night

[BR_Parkway]

When everyone hear stood up and cheered Murtha for speaking the truth, that the way Chimpy is conducting this war won't work and we need to pull our guys to the borders and let them take the responsibility for their own security - were they not supporting the same idea that we can't win this war in the old fashioned sense of the defeated commander meeting in the courthouse or the battleship of the victor to sign papers of surrender?

I didn't start out a big Dr Dean fan - but I've yet to find someone who can point me to one 'outrageous' thing the Doctor has said, and been flayed for both in the media and right here on DU, that hasn't been true and didn't wind up getting recognized as true by the majority.

He's a leader, in the real sense, not the propped up, propoganda way that Shrub tries to be.

He sees where things are, where they are going and speaks out about them - even when those things aren't popular. And the people wind up catching up with him.

We (DU and all the liberal blogs collectively) constantly scream about Dems getting a spine, Dems caving in to the DLC or pandering to the right or being ReThug-lite or not standing for something or having no plans. And the minute someone like Dean speaks out in a way that's different than someone like Zell Miller or Joe Lieberman - half the freaking blogosphere starts screaming about how much he's hurting us and OMG, they shouldn't have said that. It's the most schitzophrenic thing I've ever seen.

I want a leader who has the foresight to honestly see the situation as it is, the integrity to honestly speak about it (especially when it's an unpopular view) and the courage to go out and inspire this nation into following them in that course of action. It's taken a while for me to be convinced, but I'll say it here for the first time - Dr Dean speaks for me!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1975160&mesg_id=1975739

Perhaps you should read this:

Howard Dean's Track Record on Iraq (Ignore Him at Your Peril)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5550285

he's been pretty well spot on


edit:I can't spell