Did DUers read the WSWS article on Howard Dean?

[MSchreader]

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/feb2004/dean-f19.shtml

Excerpt:

To some degree, the Dean campaign proved victim of its own early successes. It was also undone as a result of political shifts within the American political establishment.

As long as Bush was considered politically unassailable, a viewpoint that was bolstered by a media mesmerized by its own propaganda, there was little concern within the ruling elite over who would be chosen as the Democratic Party nominee.

The Dean campaign was one indicator of the broad and intense popular disaffection with the Bush presidency, something that has only been underscored by the Democratic primaries, in which exit polls show significant numbers of voters describing their attitude toward the president as one of “anger” or “hatred.”

This popular unrest has intersected with and intensified disquiet within US corporate and financial circles over the viability of the Bush administration. Concerns within these circles over the fiasco of the administration’s policies in Iraq and fears that its policies on debts and deficits could be creating conditions for severe economic crisis have become increasingly widespread, as evidenced by former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill’s recent book recounting his own dismay over the direction of policy.

As the year began, preparing a possible Democratic alternative to Bush emerged as a serious concern for the American ruling class, and the focus of the Democratic primaries became ever more clearly the vetting of a candidate who could be trusted and accepted by the financial oligarchy that ultimately controls both major parties.

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Martin

[oasis]

1. A rational analysis of Dean's demise. This should be circulated around DU

for a few days.

[grab bag]

2. Dean was INSIGNIFICANT, that became obvious in Iowa.

[JackRiddler]

4. so you registered two minutes ago...

to let us know that? Thanks!

[Darth_Kitten]

6. Yeah.

whatever.

[RetroLounge]

9. Thanks for enlightening us.

not.

[boilerbabe]

3. i agree totally with the article you referred me to...

But is it a possibility? I hope so, sooner or later...after this primary, I plan on changing my party to a "non ' party, like independant...

[grab bag]

5. Has anyone seen the primary results??

WAKE UP!!! Dean couldn't win a single state. I know, lets blame the media.

[MSchreader]

7. Kick

:kick:

[candy331]

8. Another surmise of the Dean campaign

I suppose if it wasn't for Dean the poor writers would be out of a job, what will they do after November I wonder? I hope many layoffs are in the making.

[George_Bonanza]

10. Um, big business loved Dean in Vermont

For all his pseudo-progressive rhetoric, Dean is very much an establishment-style politician.

[oasis]

11. This article is worthy of further examination by the DU bunch.

[RichM]

12. I posted it a few days ago in Editorials, feeling that the analysis was,

as usual, spot-on. Naturally, there were zero responses to it. Probably no one even saw it.

[oasis]

13. Everything gets noticed over here at the O.K. Corral...err GD 2004.

Not everything that makes sense, gets a reply.