{"id":1184,"date":"2005-01-19T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T06:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/19\/political-dean-for-dnc-chair\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:25:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:25:45","slug":"political-dean-for-dnc-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/19\/political-dean-for-dnc-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Political &#8211; Dean for DNC chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a Deaniac or even a democrat.  Dean told reporters that he wasn&#8217;t a liberal.  And he&#8217;s not.  His healthcare plan was to allow everyone to purchase health insurance.  Sadly, this would be an improvement over the current sad state of affairs.  And he yelled in a way that recording technology rendered embarassing.  His campaign had already fallen apart by then.  He wasn&#8217;t even a real candidate, he just wanted to make health care an issue.  The fact that he got so far without really running a campaign indicates the sorry state of the Democratic primaries.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic party is still in a sorry state.  Democrats and sympathizers end up pushing candidates who aren&#8217;t very good just because they&#8217;re nobody else.  Well, in that spirit, Dean for DNC chair.  He&#8217;s got a few things going for him.  He&#8217;s a  govenor.  They&#8217;re better at grand statements and symbolic leadership than fillibuster-prone political-compromising senators.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong.  Senators have their place.  That&#8217;s in the senate.  And Dean understands the internet&#8217;s potential in a way unmatched by anyone else aside from Al Gore.  (I&#8217;m being serious here.)  And the kids like Dean.  The Democrats need the kids.  They need their energy and they need their votes in future elections.  If the Democrats don&#8217;t reach out to the kids, the kids will all go Green or stop voting.  Probably the latter, sadly.<br \/>\nSo, for the political power of govenorship, for the internet and for the kids, I say Dean should be DNC chair, unless we can find a southern govenor.  We need one of those bad soon.  The republicans have one, conviently named Bush.<br \/>\nTag: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Politics\" rel=\"tag\">Politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a Deaniac or even a democrat. Dean told reporters that he wasn&#8217;t a liberal. And he&#8217;s not. His healthcare plan was to allow everyone to purchase health insurance. Sadly, this would be an improvement over the current sad state of affairs. And he yelled in a way that recording technology rendered embarassing. His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/19\/political-dean-for-dnc-chair\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Political &#8211; Dean for DNC chair<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3434,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}