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September 15, 2008

Howard Dean on Barack Obama

Blue Oregon editors Jeff Alworth and Kari Chisolm interviewed Howard Dean last week in Portland.

This one quote sums up why I've been a fan of Howard Dean since 2004 and why I am going to vote for Barack Obama in November.

"What Barack is trying to accomplish is something Bush willfully chose not to do. Barack wants to be president of all America, not just the half that agrees with him."

Dean is the author of the vaunted 50-state strategy. Demonstrating that he is a class-act all the way, Dean doesn't toot his own horn but rather gives credit where credit is due.

"The reason he’s adopted the fifty-state strategy is because he wants to be the president even of people who don’t agree with him so he can reunify the country.

What a refreshing concept after having lived through the arrogantly divisive Bush/Cheney administration.

That’s what I find so refreshing, a candidate that wants to bring people together instead of what McCain is doing by driving them apart.

That goes to the root of one of the things that I find so very disappointing about John McCain. Accepting advice from Karl Rove and employing Tucker Eskew are NOT the choices of respectful or of a respectable candidate.

So being a player in every region of the country matters: North Carolina, Virginia is in play, there’s the western states that we talked about that are in play—and that hasn’t happened for a long, long time. And I think that’s the kind of President Barack Obama will be, someone who cares about all the American people, not just those who agree with him."

That is what America needs, now more than ever. A President who cares about all the American people, not just those who agree with him.

Posted by Kevin at September 15, 2008 08:44 AM