{"id":722,"date":"2005-02-13T02:36:36","date_gmt":"2005-02-13T02:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:00","slug":"i_liked_deans_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"I liked Dean&#8217;s Speech Today (almost all of it)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/news\/\/200502120001.html\" target=\"browser\">the text of Howard Dean&#8217;s speech<\/a> as the new DNC chair today. There&#8217;s a lot there that I like.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Republicans wandered around in the political wilderness for 40 years before they took back Congress. But the reason we lost control is that we forgot why we were entrusted with control to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe American people can&#8217;t afford to wait for 40 years for us to put Washington back to work for them.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt can&#8217;t take us that long.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And a few things that I question. But all in all, a big &#8216;YEARRRGH&#8217; for him.<\/p>\n<p>I was originally for him because I believed that his 50-state policy would absolutely force the Party out of the Upper West Side and Brentwood and into the neighborhoods where the folks who ought to be Democrats live.<\/p>\n<p>That may just be more transformative for the Party than for the folks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was originally for Dean, because his 50-state policy would absolutely force the Party out of the Upper West Side and Brentwood and into the neighborhoods where the folks who ought to be Democrats live. He&#8217;s still on track withthat vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}