Dean says Mehlman has nerve to go to NAACP after they let NO down.

[madfloridian]

I like this. It did not please Mehlman at all.

http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-deanrally1010.artoct10,0,1521390.story?coll=hc-headlines-politics-state

"Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean delivered a pointed pep talk Sunday, telling Democrats they can win back Congress next year from a wounded, corrupt and racially divisive Republican Party.

With President Bush's approval rating sinking and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay under indictment, Dean said, the mid-term congressional elections cannot come soon enough for Democrats."

"Dean also tried to undercut plans by Ken Mehlman, the Republican national chairman, to address the NAACP in Waterbury Tuesday, suggesting that the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina was evidence of insensitivity to blacks."

I'm shocked that he would have the nerve to show his face in front of any African American organization after the way they treated those people in New Orleans," Dean

Aaron McLear, a spokesman for Mehlman, said Sunday night that Dean's comments were "race baiting."

"He criticized all three Republican incumbents for voting with DeLay or taking campaign money from his political action committee.

"Nancy Johnson has taken $10,500 from Tom DeLay, who was just indicted. She votes with Tom DeLay about 80 percent of the time. Chris Shays votes with Tom DeLay about 92 percent of the time. Rob Simmons votes with Tom DeLay 95 percent of the time and has taken $40,000."

[napi21]

1. THANK YOU HOWARD!!!! I only wish the rest of our Dems had

Dean's brass ones! He is the only Dem who says what he means and sticks to it!

[jody]

2. Repugs only visit NAACP when they need cotton pickers. A pox on *. n/t

[Demobrat]

3. I would love to hear what Mehlman has to say

to the NAACP. And I would love even more to hear what they have to say to him.

[jody]

7. Should we suggest the audience rise as one and "moon" Mehlman?

Matthew 25:41-46
QUOTE
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did not to one of the least of these, ye did not to me.

And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
UNQUOTE

Looks like Bush is in for a hot eternity!

[Raster]

4. melhman is a hypocritical closet case

[davidinalameda]

5. go Dean go!!

it's so good to see party leadership say it like it is

[chalky]

6. Considering how Bush has dissed the NAACP, McLear would do best to STFU.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40255-2004Jul10.html

[Mabus]

8. Thank you Dr. Dean

He's right. I also believe the term "race baiting" is more applicable to the GOP's Southern Strategy that Mehlman admitted to actually existing earlier this year. It's another example of the GOP's hypocrisy.

[LittleClarkie]

9. Not to mention the "abort black babies" comment

Yeah, I'm sure the drive to have more black people vote Republican is going REALLY well.

Dean is just telling it like it is. They hate it when that happens. Witness how O'Reilly reacted to Media Matters. Truth! Eeek!

Recommended.

[slor]

10. LOL...the rethugs turned race-baiting into a science...

and they accuse Dean of doing it.

[NYCGirl]

11. That's that good ol' fashioned Republican projection...

Whatever horrifying thing they can accuse the Democrats of doing, you can be sure they're guilty of it themselves.

[applegrove]

12. Bush WH marginalized the NAACP, now they covet their friendshiip.

You take something away from someone - then give it back -so you look like Santa.

NAACP will not fall for it. They know a certain portion of the US population has some work to do - re racism and the delusion of the American "creation myth".

[Pacifist Patriot]

13. McLear might be right.

But so is Dean. Truth hurts.

[madfloridian]

14. No, I disagree very strongly with you.

Dean is not just saying that, he means that statement deep down. There will never ever be forgiveness for the fact that those people in New Orleans were left cying out from the convention center, from the superdome, and from the rooftops.

That will be the downfall of their party, and I fear this country. We let our people die.

It is the responsibility of the government to provide for its people in a time of crisis. They failed. They totally failed.

Make no excuses for them. The color of the faces spoke too loudly to be interpreted any other way.

And the worst part is....the whole world saw it live. I wish you could see the cartoons my friend sent from Belgium. Cartoons that were published in their newspapers there. They were too ugly and tasteless to post here.

The world knew it for what it was. The GOP used the word race-baiting to deflect from their failure to care for the least among us.

[Cha]

19. That's just the repuke's answer

for everything when it's Clear they ignored the Black People of New Orleans.

Dean is right and mcclear doesn't have anything to defend Dean's accusations with so he attacks the messenger..don't fall for it, please.

[mom cat]

15. I love him for the courage to tell it like it is.

[autorank]

16. Thanks Howard! Kick butt all the time. Non stop, 7 x 24!

Rock the house!

[Cults4Bush]

17. Right on Dean!

Please continue to poke that masochisticly saddistic twerp.

Mehlman is as bad a man as the rest of the repuke godfathers.

[Cha]

18. Yeah, Dean! "Undercut" those plans

by melhman..he does have a lot of arrogant chuzpah to speak before an organization of the People that they ignored while one of the worst natural disasters in history was goin' down.

"race baiting"..is the best ya got? What do you call it when * goes to Arizona and California instead of leading the rescue of People out of New Orleans? Photo-opitis? Wrong Direction?

Dean is exactly right and I'm glad he's not beating around the bush but coming straight at the bush.

[Kurovski]

20. Good for Dean. If McLear's beautiful mind is disturbed by "race-baiting"

then he should tell his bosses to quit acting like racist, genocidal shitbags.

In the mean time Mr. Dean, do all the "race-baiting"--as that corrupt filth McLear called it--you need.

[madfloridian]

21. Mehlman defends his appearance by invoking the name of Lincoln.

http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=3965587&nav=5D7l

"WATERBURY, Conn. The Republican and Democratic party chairmen are sparring over black voters.

Republican Ken Mehlman today told a chapter of the N-double-A-C-P the "party of Lincoln and the African-American people have an incredible history together."

He dismissed criticism from Howard Dean. The Democrat yesterday told the Hartford Courant he was shocked that Mehlman would "have the nerve" to speak in front of an African-American organization after the way the administration treated people in New Orleans.

Mehlman urged his audience to give the Republican Party a chance if they're not satisfied with the quality of their children's education, housing or retirement options."

Yeah, Mehlman, we saw that incredible history on rooftops and in superdomes in New Orleans. We won't forget that lack of caring, and the world won't forget it either.