Dean calls for end to GOP divisiveness & for Democratic party unity

Bush has divided the country and fostered hate - all to keep the GOP in power. I often ask myself how could someone who professes to be a Christian knowingly set one American against another.  St Peter is not going to be happy with Bush & Rove when they show up at the Pearly Gates

Howard Dean in Florida

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BRIAN SKOLOFF
Associated Press

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Down with divisiveness was the message Wednesday delivered by Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean as he told a group of Florida business leaders that Republican policies of deceit and finger-pointing are tearing American apart.

Dean called President Bush "the most divisive president probably in our history."

"He's always talking about those people. It's always somebody else's fault. It's the gays' fault. It's the immigrants' fault. It's the liberals' fault. It's the Democrats' fault. It's Hollywood people," Dean said. "Americans are sick of that. Even if you win elections doing that, you drag down our country."

Dean spoke to about 240 business leaders in Palm Beach County at a gathering of the Democratic Professionals Forum as part of a nationwide grassroots campaign to get voters involved in politics on a local level ahead of the November elections.

The Republican agenda "is flag-burning and same-sex marriage and God knows what else," Dean said. "We need real change in this country. We're in trouble."

Dean on Nouri al-Maliki

Dean also lashed out at President Bush's Iraq policy and at allowing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to address Congress on Wednesday, calling the foreign leader an "anti-Semite."

"We don't need to spend 200 and 300 and 500 billion dollars bringing democracy to Iraq to turn it over to people who believe that Israel doesn't have a right to defend itself and who refuse to condemn Hezbollah," he said.

Don't know if I agree with Dean on Nouri al-Maliki. I'm ambivalent.  I don't feel that I have studied the Middle East enough to have an informed opinion.