Dean Dissed?

[MelissaB]

Dean Dissed?

Washington, D.C. - January 8, 2009

President-elect Barack Obama has nominated Virginia Governor Tim Kane to be the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

Mr. Obama said Dean served his party and the nation as a "visionary and effective leader," and made Democrats competitive in states where they hadn't competed in years.

But the press release made virtually no mention of Dean and the former governor wasn't on hand for the president-elect's visit to party headquarters, because Dean is traveling in American Samoa.

Democrats with knowledge of the situation said Dean has clashed with Obama aides and Democratic leaders in Congress and had been asked by Obama advisers not to attend.

We asked the DNC what is in the future for Howard Dean and so far have had no reply.

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=9641688

Thanks to Generator for pointing this article out here.

I am more than a little pissed...

[gristy]

1. discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8072274
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4795499

[MelissaB]

5. thanks. didn't see those.

:)

Busy being a couch potoato because I'm sick.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Obama shouldn't be messin with Howard

Obamabots will enter this thread in 5, 4, 3, 2 ....

[madfloridian]

3. More...verified by Jim Dean

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/3381

[MelissaB]

7. Thanks, madfloridian.

I can't tell you how disappointed I am.

[madfloridian]

8. oops, I missed your last link.

Did not catch that. Sorry for the dupe.

[peacetalksforall]

4. He clashed with the DLC - deservedly - and no one at the DLC has the guts to tell

it like it is because it isn't nice. Milquetoast DLC has another side.

I want to know where Obama stands on the DLC. Can he change them?

I prefer they be abolished.

I am a Dean fan. I resent the way he has been treated.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. Ungrateful is the kindest word I can think of.

[aikoaiko]

9. It baffles me why Obama and Dean are not working together better.

[wryter2000]

10. Great

Now we can go back to Republican lite again, and the people will go back to voting for the real Republicans.

[peacetalksforall]

11. Huh?

[wryter2000]

12. That's the way things went under the DLC n/t

n/t

[Snotcicles]

13. Unlike most, Dean's ideals and principles are not fluid. nt