Today is Howard's Birthday! Let's give him some cash. He brought us 2 cycles of victory and he never let us down.
Let's take the occasion of his 60th birthday to show our appreciation with a flurry of greenbacks, and let the establisment Dems know that we know who brought here. It was Howard Dean!
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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He was there for us in our darkest hours. He taught us to never give up, and he wore out his shoe leather showing us how it's done.
He rode out into the hinterlands where people hadn't seen nor heard from a Democrat for generations. He gave us the means to introduce ourselves and our idears to our fellow Americans in every corner of our Great Country.
He is our 21st Century Thomas Paine. A Common Sense Visionary.
He's no frills, honest straight talk, tight with a dollar, and a real nuts & bolts mechanic. He gets it done.
This is my all-time favorite article about our Howard:
Return of the Angry Man
_He might have simply disappeared after the Scream ended his presidential hopes. But as head of the Democratic Party, Howard Dean is still going to go to New Hampshire. And South Carolina. And Oklahoma ...
By Sally Jenkins
Sunday, July 3, 2005; Page W08_
One would not expect the DNC chair to fly coach. But he does. He rides the New York subway and the Washington Metro. He generally refuses car service, because he doesn't like to waste money or time in traffic. Also, he can't stand luggage carousels. "Anyone who travels with me has to do carry-on," he says. His travel bag is a beaten up Tumi with red masking tape jacked around the handle. It contains exactly one suit.
"The joke around here is that Howard needs a visit from 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,' " says Betsey Krumholz, a longtime acquaintance from Burlington, Vt.
One would also expect the DNC chair to spend considerable time in the capital. But Dean spends two days a week max at the DNC office here, preferring instead to visit state parties. Recently he had lunch with, as he described them, some "very old influential heavy-hitter lobbyists." They gently suggested that he ought to do more time in Washington.
"I can't," he said. "No votes in Washington."
That is the sort of smart and spiny thing Dean likes to say, and, when it's accompanied by rolled-up sleeves and a tie askew, he radiates a sense of possibility for his party. But he's also capable in the next instant of making a statement that forces staffers to roll their eyes and rush back to their offices to control the fallout. It has become a weekly ritual: Dean says something, such as calling Republicans "pretty much a white, Christian party," angering conservatives and scaring the wits out of centrist Democrats, who promptly distance themselves from him.
Read the whole thing. It's a hoot.
Thank you, Howard!
And thank you to everyone who hit the ground in the 50 States and won!
Happy Birthday, Howard Daen!
Send our hero some cash
He rucgly deserves it.