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Howard Dean: People Around Obama Have No Idea What Happens Outside Of D.C.

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Remember way back two weeks ago when Robert Gibbs pissed much of the media off with his complaint about the “professional left“? Oh those pleasant days of early August.

Well, Howard Dean does, and he circled back to it today on CNN’s State of the Union telling Candy Crowley that the real problem is not the “professional left” which doesn’t really exist, but the “people around the president [who] have really misjudged what goes on elsewhere in the country.” Not the President, mind you, just “his political people.” Presumably Dean is referring not only to Gibbs here, but Rahm Emanuel as well, something that becomes more apparent when he notes that the “average Democrat is a progressive and there are some things are upsetting about the deals that were made by the President’s people on health care.”

Nevertheless, now that Dean’s had his chance to complain he thinks it’s time to “put that stuff behind us” so that the Dems can win in November, because “you can’t get anything done” unless you have a Democratic President, a Democratic Senate, and a Democratic House (notwithstanding 2009?). Because the GOP is the party of No: “Name one single constructive issue the Republicans have put forward.” Watch below.

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  • Azarkhan

    “Name one single constructive issue the Republicans have put forward.”

    I can name three: vote out Democrats in the: 1) House, 2) Senate, and 3) White House.

  • http://politicsofdestruction.com/ Bobomatic

    I always feel the need to take a shower every time I hear Dean spew his rhetoric.

  • juan

    I’m proud we have a Party of No to these LEFTIES!

    November cometh -

    Let the INVESTIGATIONS begin!

  • adel

    Found a proposal… not sure how productive it might be though…

    Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino said he would transform some New York prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients, where they could work in state-sponsored jobs, get employment training and take lessons in “personal hygiene.” [...]

    Paladino first described the idea in June at a meeting of The Journal News of White Plains and spoke about it again this week with The Associated Press. [...]

    Asked at the meeting how he would achieve those savings, Paladino laid out several plans that included converting underused state prisons into centers that would house welfare recipients. There, they would do work for the state — “military service, in some cases park service, in other cases public works service,” he said — while prison guards would be retrained to work as counselors.

    “Instead of handing out the welfare checks, we’ll teach people how to earn their check. We’ll teach them personal hygiene … the personal things they don’t get when they come from dysfunctional homes,” Paladino said.

  • AngelPeters

    Never really liked Dean, but I think he is right about this.

  • lonestar77

    Ahh, Howard Dean. You just can’t get enough of him. He’s insane but harmless. I don’t think he even believes the batshit crazy stuff that comes out of his mouth. We’re going to North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, Indiana, Kentucky, Yeeee-haw, woo-hoo, uh huh, dippity doo dah, whoop, whoop, there it is.

  • felixw

    The in-fighting on the Left is getting worse and worse as election day approaches. Howard Dean is now attacking “people around Obama.” Michael Moore has attacked the President’s press secretary, as has Keith Olbermann. Gibbs is fighting back, complaining about the “professional left.” Alan Grayson is also finger-pointing at the administration. Rachel Maddow is now complaining about the President’s approach to the military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ program. The Washington Post is now griping that Obama has too many priorities and is not making progress against key objectives. The New York Times is now openly criticizing the President’s Afghanistan policy. In short, all the key players who helped Obama get elected are now the first to criticize him.

    And why? Well, it’s obvious. As polls show, most of the public has now decided that the Obama administration has been a huge, unmitigated failure. So prominent leftists want to distance themselves from the disaster coming in November. No one wants to be closely linked with an incompetent and failing administration. And who can blame them?

    Just watch, this in-fighting, finger-pointing and backstabbing on the Left will just get worse and worse as election day approaches. And then after the debacle in November, all hell will break lose in the ranks of the rejected and demoralized Democrats.

  • Azarkhan

    I think this nutcase may be preparing for a run against Obama in 2012. In the lunatic Democratic Party, anything is possible.

  • juan

    felixw said:
    As polls show, most of the public has now decided that the Obama administration has been a huge, unmitigated failure.

    Those words are music to my ears and make my day!

  • felixw

    juan said:
    Those words are music to my ears and make my day!

    Check out the numbers. Since the start of 2009, close to one-third of those surveyed have moved from a favorable opinion of Obama to an unfavorable view.

    http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/jobapproval-obama.php

    This is a huge shift, and hardly one Obama can recover from. At least, not without moving from his far left policies to a more centrist position. But I can’t believe Obama will ever do that. So this looks like the classic case of a one-term President, and during the final two years of his term he will have a Republican-controlled Congress to keep him in check.

  • Moderate

    “average Democrat is a progressive and there are some things are upsetting about the deals that were made by the President’s people on health care.”

    I admit that the White House is disconnected from the average voter other than Chicago. Howard Dean is disconnected from those outside of Vermont. People wanted change but now the kind they are getting. Read the polls Democrats. People are not accepting your form of progressivism.

  • Moderate

    Deals were made to get the Healthcare bill passed. How else can you get a bill passed that most people do not like? Howard Dean is living in LaLa Land.

  • Arkansas Steve

    FOLKS, IT’S WORSE THAN GLYNNIS’ HEADLINE !!

    Not only do the people around President Obama have NO idea what’s going on outside DC, but
    the President himself has NO clue either. Every time he visits a city to give a speech, he is preceded by his “no-clue” staff who round up a few, mostly uninterested lemmings, to act like they are buying what he’s selling.

    There are NO people around him who know how to start or grow a business. That fact is as butt-ugly stupid as having NOBODY IN the military who has fought in a war!

    We just have to hold our nose and hope the Republicans don’t screw it up in 2012. Wish I were more sure of that.

  • shootfromthehip

    “That fact is as butt-ugly stupid as having NOBODY IN the military who has fought in a war!”

    And I suppose Dick Cheney and Bush fought in wars?

    Um NO. Cheeny had FIVE deferments. Bush never left the U.S.

    The same Secretary of Defense under Bush is serving under Obama.

    Are you saying Gates has “no clue?”

    Obama doesn’t have to “round up” anyone.

    He still as millions of fans and don’t forget he got nearly 70 million votes in 2008. A lot more than McCain got, and he really DID have to have his staff round up people.

    Obama is an inspiring speaker that does not.

  • felixw

    shootfromthehip said:
    “That fact is as butt-ugly stupid as having NOBODY IN the military who has fought in a war!”

    And I suppose Dick Cheney and Bush fought in wars?

    Um NO. Cheeny had FIVE deferments. Bush never left the U.S.

    The same Secretary of Defense under Bush is serving under Obama.

    Are you saying Gates has “no clue?”

    Obama doesn’t have to “round up” anyone.

    He still as millions of fans and don’t forget he got nearly 70 million votes in 2008. A lot more than McCain got, and he really DID have to have his staff round up people.

    Obama is an inspiring speaker that does not.

    I am more amazed at the almost total absence in the administration of people who have run a business or have any real private sector experience. Check out this amazing and revealing chart:

    http://tinyurl.com/2f6du22

    Who can be surprised that no one in the Obama administration has a clue on how to create jobs? None of them has ever made a payroll, built a successful business, or done much beyond living off the public sector trough for their entire careers.

  • shootfromthehip

    Yes, sure. As if Bush was some business genius.

    Are you fucking kidding me?

    Grew up in a rich family with all the breaks and connections that go along with that and then he ran an oil business handed to him into the ground.

    Here is the failed corporate record of GW Bush before his Presidency.

    http://alaric3rh.home.sprynet.com/science/bceo.html

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    Glynnis has a point: There’s nothing professional about the left.

  • shootfromthehip

    The reality is that America’s supposedly anti-business president has led an extremely pro-business recovery. The corporate community has recovered first, and best.

  • adel

    felixw said:
    Check out the numbers. Since the start of 2009, close to one-third of those surveyed have moved from a favorable opinion of Obama to an unfavorable view.

    http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/jobapproval-obama.php

    This is a huge shift, and hardly one Obama can recover from. At least, not without moving from his far left policies to a more centrist position. But I can’t believe Obama will ever do that. So this looks like the classic case of a one-term President, and during the final two years of his term he will have a Republican-controlled Congress to keep him in check.

    Except maybe not…
    Public opinion has not shifted as much as it did for Reagan or Clinton… both two term presidents

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/21/earlyshow/saturday/main6793179.shtml

  • felixw

    shootfromthehip said:
    Yes, sure. As if Bush was some business genius.

    Are you fucking kidding me?

    http://alaric3rh.home.sprynet.com/science/bceo.html

    On every possible economic measure, things were better off under Bush. Whether you look at unemployment figures, GDP growth, housing starts, government deficits, whatever. So spin all you want, but the numbers just don’t back you up.

  • juan

    Remember, before the Democrats took control of Congress in Jan 2007, jobs were good and plentiful and 401(k) balances were flourishing!

  • gar

    Howard, let me get this straight. The advisors of the president have no clue, so the president inadvertantly reads off the teleprompter what his advisors want him to market ,knowing that it’s all bullshit. The healthcare bill sucks “I didn’t like it” but it will get better. Democratic politicians are hiding from him, yet he’s the glue that will bring them victory in November. I think you’re losing your mind.

  • Ninja

    “Name one single constructive issue the Republicans have put forward.”

    I guess Howard is just as intellectually dishonest as some of the posters on this site, that or he is just plain stupid.

    http://www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov/

  • BigOldMeanie

    GOP isn’t the Party of NO…it’s the party of Oh, F**k No, We Will Not Let the Jackassocrats Get bY With Destroying the Country

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Larry-King/100000689413015 Larry King

    juan said:
    Those words are music to my ears and make my day!

    I didn’t know 2012 was here already. You may be in for a big surprise.

  • FearMonger

    shootfromthehip said:
    Yes, sure. As if Bush was some business genius

    but but but….. it’s really not about Bush anymore, right? I mean, the current POTUS said ‘give it to me’ 13 months ago….

    Here are his exact words from July 2009…..

    “Now, my administration has a job to do, as well, and that job is to get this economy back on its feet. That’s my job. And it’s a job I gladly accept. I love these folks who helped get us in this mess and then suddenly say, ‘Well, this is Obama’s economy.’ That’s fine. Give it to me. My job is to solve problems, not to stand on the sidelines and carp and gripe.”

    Ouchie…

    http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/115271-a-year-after-claiming-the-economy-his-own-obama-points-finger-

  • RTB

    Never thought I see the day I’d agree with howard dean. ..unbelievable
    I think most unbiased people politicaly speaking know the Democrats in the next 2 elections are gonna have there asses handed to them, however my gut tells me America is still starstruck over Barack and will reelect him without hesitation or regard…unfortunately. ….

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