Hello politics Iam an african-american 22year old young lady, and I just wanted to know why is it that this world is becoming so destructive to the point I feel I really don't have a future? And why is it that you people only think about the so-called stupid things in life instead of worrying about more serious matters like
*War
*Health care(not just for the wealthy)
*Provity
*Young african americans killing each other daily and all other races
*What about the drugs??
*What about Homeless people
*what about debt that American people are in under 25years of age?
*What about getting a cure for AIDS?
*What about better assistance?
*What about these wrongful cops?why is it they and kill and get away with it?
*What about asking some of you so-called famous people to help out some of these low income or just working to get through the week families out..
*why is that this world claim to be so much in debt but you have enough money to pay someone 10,000 just to make you laugh but can't pay the averge person atleast 15.00 an hour just to live a decent life???
*why is that..especially when a company is making atleast a million dollars a day??
*And why is it you all are trying to put THE LORD AND GOD OUT of there creation??and put the world into a NEW WORLD ORDER?? what is that about??

Lest Mr. Dean forgets, there was no way an African-American, Latino, or female would dare to have run in a 1950's presidential race whether Republican or Democrat.

Its obvious that Dean didn't hear nor respects our soldiers message to those back here in the U.S., to "let us win" the war in Iraq.
No respect for our soldiers, yes, get a democrat president in, that will back Dean up on that, just what America needs, to not respect our soldiers opinions who fight to protect us.

I just love the Clinton apologists. The fact is, Clinton lacked the fortitude, and leadership, to spend some of his political capital, we hear so much about, to do what was really necessary…eliminate the al Qaeda training camps that were flourishing in Afghanistan during the 90's. Had he done so, and done so early on…would 9/11 have even happened? Not surprising really since he was so preoccupied with polls and his own popularity. So, regrettably, Clinton proved to NOT be so "prophetic".

I will be so happy when Dean and his cast of crooks will get defeated "again" for the WH 2008. America has seen the mistake they made voting in those old hippies to power in Congress. We are not a socilaist nation.

Rob san diego CA,,,, You started off great there with the comparison of parties in bush's two terms of office and then you blew it with your hate rederick " bible thumpers and redknecks ",,,, If you dont already know this you should, Since Ronald reagens conception, BOTH parties share equaly in the failure of foriegn trade and our debt to contries like china. the 400 billion surplus your talking about looked great at the time untill we found out they were just I-O -U's funded by what ?

WALLACE,,,, why didnt dean just stick with our side is diverse then ? why say all white field when refering to the republican candidates ? the obvious thing is it mattered enough to dean to say the words in the first place, Ignorance preceeds many comments and thoughts at election time WALLACE,, think about that before your next comment

The Executive branch of the Government does not provide legislation; the Legislative branch does. See, that's why it's called the Legislature.

If Clinton was as "prophetic" as alleged, he would have acted pre-emptively instead of talking about it. He would have discharged his primary duty, which unfortunately for Progressives, is not the raising of taxes and the solvency and ascendency of the Government over the individual.

Dean is correct about one thing: Republicans do win Presidential elections. It's too bad Progressives are still clinging to the Marxist pablum they imbibed in as youths, instead of Hamilton, Alexander, Jay and Paine.

Then again, they wouldn't be "Progressives" then, now would they?

"America hasn't had any terrorist attacks on it's soil since 09/11/01 (no thanks to Democrats, who oppose every method implemented by Republicans to keep us safe).
Posted By Thomas, St. Petersburg, FL : November 30, 2007 12:32 pm"
Funny. I seem to recall Bill Clinton proposing a huge anti-terrorism bill in 1996 (opposed by the Republicans). One of the proposed features of the bill was that it would make it a lot harder for terrorist groups to funnel money through international banks. This provision was stripped by conservative Republican Phil Gramm.
Clinton proved to be prophetic, as one of the things Bush did less than a year after 9/11 was to implement this policy (one of the few things Bush has done that I agree with).
And of course I haven't even mentioned the 1/1/2000 attempted attack on the L.A. airport, an attack the Clinton administration prevented. Or Al Gore's
ignored 1997 proposals to make airplanes safer & make cockpit cabins have lockable doors.
Or Bush's lack of retaliation for the October 2000 Cole attacks. (Why not retaliate, George? That window was still open for months after you took office.)

Democrat Gary Hart released a long report in Feb. 2001 warning about a terrorist attack. (True, the co-chair, Warren Rudman, was a Republican, but he's practically been forced out of the party by this point.)

The Democrats after taking power in 2006 have demonstrated that they are about as worthless as the Republicans they replaced.Nothing has changed and they spent most of their energy trying to ram through corporate written illegal immigration bill that George Bush and his corporate Masters wanted so they could have an abundance of cheap labor. I say vote them all out and go with independents. lou Dobbs is right!

I have a warning for Democrats. Stop nominating clowns like John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, or you'll never see a White House again.

Come on noone cares what Dean thinks. He is being factually inaccurate, Alan Keyes, who just happens to be black, is in fact running for the Republican nomination

And the diversity shown by those Dems in 2004 was incredible. They had a white guy from Vermont, a white guy from Massachusetts, a white guy from Missouri, a white guy from North Carolina, a white guy from Cleveland, a white guy from Connecticut, a white guy from Arkansas, and a white guy from Florida. Al Sharpton and Carol Mosely Braun making cameo appearances to provide he great diversity.

"The current Dems aren't anything they pretend to be. They just want enough control to raise taxes and fund more Welfare programs."

Posted By J Houston, TX : November 30, 2007 12:07 pm

Bush's tax cuts (for the rich) DON'T WORK for this country considering our we went from a $400 Billion surplus to a $200 Billion dollar debt under Bush’s watch. The reality is that the two parties are the very much the same. The only difference is that Democrats spend recklessly and expect taxpayers to foot the bill while Republicans spend recklessly and expect our grandchildren to deal with the taxes/bills. Oh yeah, and Republicans pander to bible thumpers and rednecks…

Here's a logical question for you Republicans who whine all day about tax increases – would you prefer paying more taxes under a Democratic government that you deem "Communist", or having real Communists in China continue to fund our nations debt under another Republican regime???

Here's what the New York Times reported on March 17, 1992: "Hillary Clinton said today that she did not earn 'a penny' from state business conducted by her Little Rock law firm and that she never intervened with state regulators on behalf of a failed Arkansas savings and loan association. . . "

Records would show that she did, in fact, represent Madison before the state securities department. After the revelation, she says, "For goodness sakes, you can't be a lawyer if you don't represent banks."

Dean…snicker…what more do you have to know…he's from Vermont, and we all know the demographics there. Give us a break Howie!

Unfortunately, all the "Front Runners" for the Democratic party couldn't even admit they would have troops out of Iraq by 2013.

by 2013.

by the end of their first term? Gee, who even came up with such a late date, and THEY STILL COULDN'T AGREE WITH THAT?

PITIFUL

Republicans win elections because Democrats nominate unelectable candidates. Dooooope…, there you go again. Ha Ha!!

Dr. Ron Paul opposed the Iraq war from the beginning. He supports immediate troop withdrawal. He is Republican.

Hillary supported the Iraq war in the beginning. Her plan is redeployment.

all of you bush haters—i would never belong to a party that is being led by a bi-polar hate filled person that Dean is..his racial record as Gov. speaks of his low integity

Howard Dean is only criticized for screaming at a campaign rally! It is time we all stop acting like children and realize how stupid it is to criticize him for that. I think we are all desperate now for a candidate like that who really cares about this country, not just getting elected, like Clinton and Guiliani and many others.

Kucinich in '08!!!!

Howard Dean needs to keep his mouth closed so the flies don't get in. He's done more to damage the Democratic Party than any three candidates combined.

He's exactly right. I'm tired of belonging to a party of pathological losers. Republicans are remarkably talented in winning elections by the use of two words: 2000-Compassionate Conservatism, 2002-9/11, 2004-Gay Marriage, (we wised up in 2006), and 2008-Hillary Clinton. Nominating Sen. Clinton would inevitably lead to another Republican presidency and the loss of any apparent gains we've made in the Midwest and Western parts of the US.

That ONE democrat is Bill Richardson. Keep up!

So if the head of the Republican party made a crack about the ethnicity or gender of the Democrats we would hear nothing from the MSM?

Anyone can RUN for President after they met the easy as hell criteria, winning is a whole other matter.

Bush had more minorities and woman in his cabinet than anyone EVER, but our minorities don't count as they don't "think like they are supposed to".

They need to take advice from someone like Dean who won his parties nomination for President…and went on to become one of our greatest presidents..wait….Dean did none of these things….why is he talking? A vote for Hillary is a vote for socialism…plain and simple…I wish he used his time to repeat JFK's famous speak – "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" – embracing unions (second coming of communism) and entitlement programs (second coming of socialism) – is wrong on so many levels

Brad, from the great state of Texas

Please! Stop the nonsense. He wasn't trying to be racist. Are you kidding me? He was stating the obvious. You are the one that made it RACIAL, while at the same time saying "Why does it matter?"

Very hypocritical. He was simply stating the field is diverse. This is a white male talking about diversity and you get UPSET. Why?

Are you kidding! My gosh. This is the ignorance that sickens people.

Wallace…
from the GREAT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!

How can the Dean-iac say that Republicans do not know how to run the country?

- The surge in Iraq (which Democrats opposed and fought tooth and nail to prevent) is having positive effects (i.e., Iraqis are returning to their country from neighboring nations such as Jordan, and violence is down), thank God;

- Afghanistan is still going our way and improving;

- The economy is still in decent shape (i.e., low unemployment and high GDP);

- America hasn't had any terrorist attacks on it's soil since 09/11/01 (no thanks to Democrats, who oppose every method implemented by Republicans to keep us safe).

Regarding the all-white comment…if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

And thank you – another man from the "great state of texas".
Truth is, the republicans are known for their backwards movements and their fear/hate tactics won't work this year!
I can't wait for gwb to re-join you in your "great state"- since he has completely screwed us, the United States!

uh Alan Keys is an African American and he ran at least twice. Elizabeth Dole is a Woman and she has also been a Candidate before.. So what is Dean "the Scream" talking about?

oh wait, they don't count because they are Republicans..

what a doodyhead!

This is not for me as a voter. Cnn this is for those candidates, ok?

Speaking of hearty laughs, I just let out a good one when I thought back to Dean's own presidential bid!

Dean's comment about the all-white-male field of Republican candidates, in an attempt to make them appear to be racists, actually demonstrates HIS (and other Democrats') bigotry. What does it really matter if they're all white, or all black, or all females, or all right-handed? If race or gender is that important to this election, then why not just pull any minority female off the street and call her "President"? Typical liberal– they're so good at namecalling but can't see past their own prejudices. Thanks for making my day Howard!

The democrats need to spell out their vision for the country. They need to ask for sacrifice to reduce the massive republican national debt.
They need to make sure the USA is treated fair in the trade agreements. We They need to point out that China and others are abiding by the rules and Bush and the republicans are protecting the corporations instead of bringing charges in the WTO to stop the dumping of goods, using child labor, exceeding quotas, etc.
The democrats need to keep a positive campaign going and ask the American people for their support.

So what Dean? Obama is working hard, don't you see?

LOL what a joke. Name ONE democrat who ACTUALLY plans to withdraw our troops from Iraq? They all intend to leave a contingent force. The current Dems aren't anything they pretend to be. They just want enough control to raise taxes and fund more Welfare programs.