Super Delegate Howard Dean Subverts Democracy & Brags About It On Twitter

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[Merryland]

1. What a POS

[cantbeserious]

2. The DNC Serves The 1% - The Voters Serve The DNC - Hence We All Serve

The Oligarchs, Corporations and Banks.

[dchill]

3. "The Superdelegate is Superdelicate!"

Gotta love that!

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

11. And a Super Dick!

[dchill]

12. Well, that remains to be seen!

[ellenrr]

4. well gee a politician sells out. I am shocked.

I remember when he was the most beloved on du.

[Enthusiast]

10. Looks like a common theme with politicians.

[mattvermont]

5. I supported Dean here in Vermont. But truth be told,

he was always part of the 1%. That always tends to bubble up in ones personality as they age.

[Fuddnik]

17. Money Powered Howard?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean

Dean was born in East Hampton, New York, to Andrée Belden (née Maitland), an art appraiser, and Howard Brush Dean, Jr.[14] He is the eldest of four brothers, including Jim Dean, Chair of Democracy for America, and Charles Dean, who was captured by the Pathet Lao and purportedly executed by the North Vietnamese while traveling through Southeast Asia in 1974.[14][15]

Howard's father worked at the stock brokerage firm of Dean Witter. The family was quite wealthy, Republican, and belonged to the exclusive Maidstone Golf Club in East Hampton. As a child he spent much of his time growing up in East Hampton; the family built a house on Hook Pond[16] there in the mid-1950s. There the boys– Howard, Charlie, Jim and Bill– "rode bikes, played with a model train set, [and] built elaborate underground forts." While in New York, the family had a three-bedroom apartment on the Upper East Side along Park Avenue.

Howard attended the Browning School in Manhattan until he was 13, and then went to St. George's School, a preparatory school in Middletown, Rhode Island.[17] In September 1966, he attended Felsted School, UK, for one school year after winning an English Speaking Union scholarship.[18]

Political opponents have been reluctant to seize upon Dean's privileged early life. UPI quoted one of Dean's friends in his youth as saying, "By Hamptons standards, the Deans were not rich. No safaris in Africa or chalets in Switzerland. Howard's father went to work every day. He didn't own a company, or have a father or grandfather who founded one, as mine did."[19] Peggy Noonan wrote in the Wall Street Journal that "he doesn't seem like a WASP. I know it's not nice to deal in stereotypes, but there seems very little Thurston Howell, III, or George Bush, the elder, for that matter, in Mr. Dean.... He seems unpolished, doesn't hide his aggression, is proudly pugnacious. He doesn't look or act the part of the WASP...It will be harder for Republicans to tag Mr. Dean as Son of the Maidstone Club than it was for Democrats to tag Bush One as Heir to Greenwich Country Day. He just doesn't act the part."

[LongTomH]

6. Another former hero turns to the Dark Side

[Enthusiast]

9. +1!

[ellenrr]

20. good thing bernie won't do a dean. LOL.. until that is he gives all his delegates to hilary...

[raindaddy]

7. Howard Dean is the poster boy for the kind of corruption that has divided the Democratic Party

Every time this guy appears on a network "news" show they should have to post the fact that he's a lobbyist for the health insurance industry.. Since they won't, Jimmy Dore is providing a public service.. Howard Dean, super delegate from Vermont, the state Bernie won all of the Delegates, will still represent Hillary Clinton because it works for Howard fucking Dean and the health care industry..

Thanks for posting this theaocp!!!

[Enthusiast]

8. Huge +1!

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

13. He may not be "representing anyone"...

but he's going against the will and wishes of 86% of his own states citizens (MOE <2%).

[dana_b]

14. Hey! I'm the woman that tweeted to him!!

I like Jimmy Dore's show.

I am just sorry that Howard doesn't feel that the people of Vermont are not his problem anymore. That what they want is of no consequence to him.

Btw - the good doctor has deleted the conversation from his timeline. I also asked him:
@GovHowardDean @BernieSanders I understand the SD system. So you don't believe that 73% of Vt. Dems also want what's best for the country?

And he never responded.

[newthinking]

16. Good Job!

Corruption needs to be called out.

[IronLionZion]

15. Dean's leadership of the DNC brought us Dem control of Congress in 2006

and put Obama in the white house with a Dem Congress in 2008 which also brought us liberal Supreme Court justices.

I supported him back then for president and for the 50-state strategy and seeding downticket races with progressive candidates and made us competitive nation-wide.

But this is a big disappointment that he joined up with the lobbyists and Newt Gingrich.

[Fuddnik]

18. Yep. I supported him too.

BIG disappointment.

[AtomicKitten]

19. Very disappointed in Howard. Hero to zero courtesy of the Clintons.