Howard Dean on Morning Joe discusses the primary, healing, Jim Johnson, and McCain. Video.

[madfloridian]

He says McCain's campaign has lobbyists crawling out of every corner.

He speaks about the attacks on Jim Johnson, about the primaries and healing, and other things. He says the John McCain of 2000 would not vote for the John McCain of 2008.

Video from MSNBC



From Huffington Post.

Transcript: Dean on Morning Joe

DEAN: John McCain's campaign is being run by lobbyists. He has lobbyists crawling out of every corner of his campaign. They donate money to him. Barack Obama doesn't take money from lobbyists. Jim Johnson is a capable guy, he has been vetting vice presidents for a while but not on the campaign payroll. He's a volunteer. He doesn't -- not allowed to donate money if he's a lobbyist. John McCain is running a campaign that is, you know, frankly pretty sleazy.
SCARBOROUGH: It says -- are you saying this The Washington Post article is planted by John McCain?

DEAN: Yeah, that's exactly right. I suspect the McCain people called up the Post which is what both sides do and got the reporter to write an interesting article about this stuff. The truth is Barack Obama hasn't taken any money from lobbyists, doesn't take money from special interests and John McCain does. Not only that, John McCain did have people on his payroll, or did have until recently, who are interest special interest people. I got a chuckle out of it.

When asked about those who were still not on board.

But I think I lost one of these races as you remember four years ago and it takes a while to heal. It takes -- it took me three or four weeks as a human being to get back to where I needed to be and it takes the followers longer than that. Because this is something people invest a lot in. It's tough when your candidate doesn't win, especially when you feel like your candidate has been treated in a way that personally insults you as a voter and I think some of the comments about Senator Clinton did do that.

He mentions the issues at stake.

SCARBOROUGH: We read a lot of articles suggesting that women who supported Hillary Clinton are so angry they may actually support John McCain. What would you say to those --

DEAN: I've talked to an awful lot of people. I think the vast majority of the people will support Barack Obama. And there are people who are very angry. I think Senator Clinton, you know, politics is rough and tumble and everybody expects to be treated roughly in politics. But there were some things that were really appalling, that if they had been said in the context of race the talk show people would be fired for saying it and I think that is a double standard and people have a right to be angry about it and he the question now is what are we going to do about it? I think clearly reaching out to women by talking about the things that matter: the economy, which disproportionately affects women, particularly single women raising kids, is a huge issue. The war in Iraq is a huge issue. The future Supreme Court appointments that Senator McCain would make are a huge issue, so we've got some fence mending to do. But I think I lost one of these races as you remember four years ago and it takes a while to heal. It takes -- it took me three or four weeks as a human being to get back to where I needed to be and it takes the followers longer than that. Because this is something people invest a lot in. It's tough when your candidate doesn't win, especially when you feel like your candidate has been treated in a way that personally insults you as a voter and I think some of the comments about Senator Clinton did do that.

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1. Go Dean!

nail that sack of crap to the wall!

[Cha]

2. He looks well!

Dean trying to bring some reason to the shameful US media shows.

When you step back and look at the circus on the corporate propaganda shows its devestating to our country. Eight years of traitorous stupidity wasn't enough for them.

Thank the Universe for Keith Olbermann.

[madfloridian]

3. I posted the video of the Dem press conference yesterday....it has totally dropped

to about page 3 of GD.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3431077&mesg_id=3431077

He did a great job of leading it, and it was nice to hear and see them together working for the party.

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4. I'll go there and

give it a jump start..thanks, mad. :hi:

[madfloridian]

5. Thanks.

It was a good press conference to watch and was healing to me.

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6. Healing is what needs to

be done now and Dean is good at that.

[madfloridian]

11. He has been good at that.

I remember his speech when he dropped out. He made it clear we were to get on board with Kerry and work for him.

http://www.crocuta.net/Dean/Transcript_of_Announcement_of_End_of_Campaign.htm

[Guaranteed]

7. Hi Mad.

Thanks for the video. :)

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8. "He says the John McCain of 2000 would not vote for the John McCain of 2008. "

Whoa! Sssss-NAP !!1!1!

[madfloridian]

9. I loved that statement.

:hi:

[madfloridian]

10. Kick for Howard.

:kick:

[madfloridian]

12. The media never tell us about McCain's lobbyists.

He still gets a free ride.

[polichick]

13. I'm so glad Dean is staying on...

Dean + Obama + the Grassroots = POWERFUL STUFF!