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And the combination of idealism and realism in the Dean campaign:
"As a Vermonter, I have a healthy respect for the good governor Dean. (When you've watched people close up, and for a long time, it's harder to have head-over-heels crush, but that’s okay—campaigns need a blend of realism and idealism). My deepest affection, though, is for the campaign itself. Every time it passes some new mark in money and participation, it raises the hope that democracy may still have a pulse in this country. In a country of 300 milion, writing letters to actual other human beings is about as close as we’re likely to get to what the founders envisioned."
This is about exactly where I am...yes, any of the candidates would make a significantly better president than the one we've got...but it's the campaign in the name of Dean that continues to amaze and invigorate me. My deepest hope is that it will truly transfer to whomever the candidate chosen by the party is. Then we will most surely have victory in November 2004!
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