Wednesday, November 19, 2003
The New Election
Dean Calls For New Controls on Business0 comments
It's important not to miss this article by Jim VandeHei in The Washington Post. Let me go far out onto a limb here, but this may be the point where the entire 2004 presidential election debate begins to turn.
Personally, I have not felt any urge, thus far, to align myself with any of the Democratic candidates. No one seems to have articulated the leadership skills I feel will be necessary to win the presidency and reverse the slide in morality which the U.S. has endured the last three years.
I have been happy to merely support Any Breathing Human Being who stood in opposition to George Bush and Dick Cheney.
But, with this press conference, Howard Dean has reframed the entire debate.
This bears watching.
My favorite graph is this:
"In order to make capitalism work for ordinary human beings, you have to have regulation," Dean said. "Right now, workers are getting screwed."
It's about time that someone in this campaign, "got it." Here, Dean clearly frames the election as a fight between "Big Guy," and "Little Guy."
"Right now, workers are getting screwed."
If you're going to be a Populist, I say, be a Populist.
William Jennings Bryan must be smiling somewhere.
posted by Gotham 2:25 PM
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