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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWill Howard Dean Pinch-Hit For Elizabeth Warren In 2016?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/will-howard-dean-pinch-hit-for-elizabeth-warren-in-2016BURLINGTON, Vt. Five hundred miles away from the White House, in the same city where he announced his campaign for president more than a decade ago, Howard Dean is convinced he could still run the show in Washington.
Dean, the liberal, anti-Wall Street former governor of Vermont, isnt so sure he should be the one to do it in 2016 you have to have real fire to run for president, especially twice, he says but, with mixed feelings about Hillary Clinton and amidst demand for a candidate to her left, he isnt ruling anything out.
You never say never, Dean said in a recent interview at a Burlington coffee shop. After all, he noted, at a party this summer celebrating his presidential campaigns 10-year anniversary, there was a feeling in the room that he should do it all over again.
Of course people were trying to convince me, Dean said. Well see. As I say, you never say never in politics.
Dean added quickly that Clinton would make a terrific president. But he also suggested her window for the gig may have closed. My own view is that you rarely go back a generation. Weve passed that generation onto Obamas generation, Dean said, who is a year younger than Clinton. Its unusual to go back. Its only happened once in my political lifetime, which is with Carter to Reagan.
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Will Howard Dean Pinch-Hit For Elizabeth Warren In 2016? (Original Post)
xchrom
Nov 2013
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djean111
(14,255 posts)1. Very good observation by Dean -
My own view is that you rarely go back a generation. Weve passed that generation onto Obamas generation, Dean said, who is a year younger than Clinton. Its unusual to go back. Its only happened once in my political lifetime, which is with Carter to Reagan.
A little irony there - Obama said that 25 years ago he would be considered a moderate Republican - IMO that is what Hillary is, at best.
I know they are pretty much the same age, but Warren, to me, is of a different generation - POLITICALLY - than Hillary.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)2. k&r for exposure. n/t
-Laelth
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)3. I won't vote for someone who was on the Board Of Directors for Walmart
and I am not talking about Dean
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)4. Hardly. Doctor Dean railed against hemp when he was Governor of Vermont
There was no good reason not to allow hemp production.
BeyondGeography
(39,386 posts)5. Carter to Reagan was just going back in demographic terms
Reagan really was offering change. Disastrous change, but many white people wanted to see poor non-whites get hurt and he delivered. And he made the world safe for greed.
Going with Howard's original thought, if an older person is going to try and succeed a younger President from a more recent era, he or she must stand for something clearly different or at least appear to offer a break with the past. I think he's right.