Howard Dean had the foresite to understand the power of the Internet.He and he alone changed the manual on fund raising.Dr.Dean
is the one who put the fire under the butts of the DNC and put us in this Historial time,and what does Dr.Dean get? NOTHING.The good Dr. was never seen again.

BBBBBBBBBBBYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!! !!!!!!!!!!!!

That Dean is not yet present in the Obama administration has got to be simply a “plan yet to hatch”. Dean’s 50 State Strategy brought the party too far to see him disappear. He’s too valuable a resource. Period. This optimistic Vermonter has a gut feeling; he’ll be baaaack.

It sickens man who writes horrid articles of our President, disrespecting him up to and probably past his exit from politics would usher such kind words on guess who, a liberal. Hypocrisy at its finest. I want you to write the same thing about our President, who deserves such a retirement you outlined for Dean as anyone who’s been put through the crap the media has put him through.

I’m from Vermont and I agree with all of those from Vermont who thought Howard Dean was groovy…along with the 50 state strategy. Vermonters have been known for a long, long time as a bit strange, but independent. Howard’s call for a 50 state strategy and the use of online tools seemed like a call in the wild, but whoa, it caught fire, didn’t it? Vermonters are quiet, but boy they like a challenge!

Godspeed, Gov. Dean. In 2003, we had an honest man, a man of conviction and passion, standing before us. He was the real deal for the American people. But we let the media decide for us. Now we have to live with the media’s choice.

Godspeed, Gov. Dean. In 2003, we had an honest man, a man of conviction and passion, standing before us. He was the real deal for the American people. But we let the media decide for us. Now we have to live with the media’s choice. God help us.

Howard Dean pioneered the grassroots internet campaign that Obama used. Dean also had the 50 state vision.The Burlington Free Press decreed Dean Vermonter of the Year for 2008. It is sad that Obama (whom I supported BTW) is letting ego prevent him from admitting that Howard had an important role in his victory. It is even sadder that he chose Gupta for SG above Dean.

Can anyone tell me why Chairman-Governor-Dr. Dean - early supporter who named then-Senatorial candidate Barak Obama to his first DEAN DOZEN in May’04; hardworking political genius behind the 50-State-Strategy executed in the face of vocal, mean-spirited, wrong-headed opposition from Rahm Emmanuel and other party insiders; medical professional and Governor of a state that managed to provide health insurance for 98% of its children before any other state even attempted to do so, - the individual whose support and strategy may be most responsible for the election of Obama AND Tim Kaine, is nowhere to be found in this new administration?
Nothing against newly selected part-time DNC Chair Governor Kaine, or against HHS Secretary AND director of the new White House Office of Health Reform Tom Daschle for whom one position apparently won’t be enough to keep busy with or even against CNN medical reporter and rumored-to-be Surgeon General nominee Sanjay Gupta hasn’t yet used his soapbox to promote universal health care, but this isn’t change I can believe in.

Can anyone tell me why Chairman-Governor-Dr. Dean - early supporter who named then-Senatorial candidate Barak Obama to his first DEAN DOZEN in May’04; hardworking political genius behind the 50-State-Strategy executed in the face of vocal, mean-spirited, wrong-headed opposition from Rahm Emmanuel and other party insiders; medical professional and Governor of a state that managed to provide health insurance for 98% of its children before any other state even attempted to do so, - the individual whose support and strategy may be most responsible for the election of Obama AND Tim Kaine, is nowhere to be found in this new administration?
Nothing against newly selected part-time DNC Chair Governor Kaine, or against HHS Secretary AND director of the new White House Office of Health Reform Tom Daschle for whom one position apparently won’t be enough to keep busy with or even against CNN medical reporter and rumored-to-be Surgeon General nominee Sanjay Gupta hasn’t yet used his soapbox to promote universal health care, but this isn’t change I can believe in.

HOward Dean was the BEST thing to ever happen to the Democratic Party in our times. Without his 50 State Strategy, Obama would never have won. He pioneered Internet fundraising. He was the first Big Anti war voice that would not be compromised.

For that the media had to destroy him, and they did their dirty job. He was a true public servant and I hope Obama will give him his due in time, and that that weasel Rahm Emmanuel does not get the last word. It was pitifullly disrespectful of O not to make sure Dean was invited to the handoff to Kaine, who will be lucky to be half the man Dean was.

Too bad so many around here seem to be puppets of the MSM. I wd think Rolling Stone had a smarter readership. NO one knows about the media dirty trick w the mic that created the scream? Pitiful.

LOL…and his short stature and angry lookin’ demeanor.

He’ll be remembered as a little whining weasel.

There’s only A FEW things people will remember Dean for and it’s for his stupid comments, his stupid decisions and his YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh dear, the forces of darkness that gave us 12 years of Reagan-Bush and 8 years of W are rising once again! Only the Democratic party is so determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Get in the one guy who can win elections for the DNC and reward him by kicking him out the door.

Not reassured about the Obama team. They will defang him and make him useless.

Howard Dean is a hero to any left-leaning folks looking for a hero to stand up for ‘our side’ in the past twenty years or so. (Kerry and Gore, please remain seated.)

I think that whole business and ‘the scream’ will be studied in the future as one of those moments when the press asserted itself and somehow effected what was happening. The only folks who seemed to mine what happened were the media and the Right (some might suggest they are one in the same).

It’s yet another classic good reason why we should modify the primary process.

THIS MAN IS A HERO AND WE SHOULD ALL THANK THIS MAN FOR HELPING SEND DARTH AND HIS ZOMBIES OUT OF OFFICE IN STYLE!

I always liked Howard and knew he was on the right track when he alienated his own party as Vermont Governor by insisting that they balance the budget. He’s a good one. The main stream media (especially CNN) did a job on him in Iowa and still do not allow that to be understood. Who paid them off?

This feels a bit like an obituary. Dean deserved better than he got.

The good doctor brought the sickly beltway constricted party back to health. Yea for the 50 state strategy!

Kaine is still governor, just saying.

I thought Dean had a lot of charisma. He was simply ahead of his time. History will regard him kindly, more kindly than he was regarded by the press after the Iowa caucus. How a visionary, hardworking public servant could be reduced to soundbites of one scream (over the top of the screaming crowd, not picked up on mic) is one of the biggest mysteries of American politics. Of course, the Cintons probably had a lot to do with Dean’s demise, too. Best of luck to Howard!!

Oh, hell yes. Let’s get rid of all those “unsmooth” demeanors.

We loved Howard Dean for his outspokenness, not for his smoothness.

Now we have a chair who wants religion to be on the tongue of every politician.

I love real people who are unsmooth.