I'm very disappointed in Democratic governance. what is the issue?
Granholm had big ideas, she sold me on an optimistic version of the future. What happened? Everything stalled in the slefishness of our own little village called Lansing.
Obama sold me, and the way he can spout the rhetoric, I'm still sold. But, we bog down in the minutia of being everything to everybody. He negetoiates with himself in an attempt to be "bi-partisan".
Sure there was the scream. The Iowa result hurt more. Dean had relied on slick kids to come in and win Iowa for him. They didn't get the job done. He got excited trying to rally the troops. Add some media trickery (the famous scream is a direct mic recording, if you add his scream with the overall crowd noise...),they pile on, and it's over.
Howard Dean went on to command win in 2006 and delivered the presidency in 2008. Obama owes a lot to the work Howard Dean's party did from 2004 through 2008.
He did it by being an unabashed liberal. He did it by not being scared.
Obama would learn a lot from following his lead once again.
