Howard Dean to scream at...er...speak at the Liberal Party convention
The Liberal Party has announced a coup. Howard Dean, the Chairman of the Democratic Party, will be delivering the keynote address at the upcoming Liberal Party convention. Howard Dean? Screaming Howard Dean?
From the Liberal Party website, the announcement that Dr Howard Dean, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, would be the keynote speaker:
Liberals announce Keynote speaker, theme of Convention
November 10, 2006Montreal -The Liberal Party of Canada today is pleased to announce that the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Governor Howard Dean, will give the keynote address at the Party's upcoming Leadership and Biennial Convention. Governor Dean will be speaking to delegates, alternates, observers, and the attendees on the evening of November 29, 2006, at approximately 8:20 pm (EST).
Governor Dean was elected Chairman of the Democratic Party in early 2005. Since that time, he has worked to strengthen the grassroots of his Party. His leadership has been centered around a "50 state strategy" that focuses on building his Party in every state in the country. Under his leadership, the Democratic Party has rebuilt its infrastructure and shifted its fundraising strategy towards small donations from engaged supporters. Just this week, he led his Party to a clean sweep of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate, the majority of Governorships and state legislatures.
"We are proud to have Gov. Dean address our Party. Aside from our obvious affinity with the Democratic Party, Liberals are excited to hear the Chairman's views on a modern democracy and the role of the Democratic Party in the new U.S. political environment. And the timing couldn't be better," said Steven MacKinnon, General Secretary of the Convention.
What? I guess with Michael Ignatieff ineligible to be keynote speaker on account of his running for the leadership of the Liberal Party, Canada's natural governing party had to find another American to kick of this Canadian political event.
OK, that was a bit of a cheap shot.
Anyone out there think the Democratic Party will reciprocate and let Liberal Party President Mike Eizenga deliver the keynote address at the next Democratic Party convention, you know, because they think Canadian opinions on the role of democracy matter?
OK, that was another cheap shot.
But this isn't. What do you think Dean is going to tell Canadians that will somehow be of value? Consider Dean's deep thinking on the matter of Canada-US relations:
Montreal, Quebec, Canada: U.S. relations with Canada have gone through some tough times under the Bush administration. How do you feel you can repair relations between the U.S. and their neighbor to the north, and for that matter the whole international community?
Howard Dean: I have a long standing relationship with Canada both because my kids have spent numerous weekends playing hockey there and because I have appeared on Canadian talk shows many times. Repairing our relationship with Canada requires the same solution that repairing our relationships with the rest of the world requires, and that is the removal of a president whose arrogance and contemptuousness for others overrides the respect that is necessary between parties to conduct international relations.
So Howard Dean's suitability to speak to a Canadian audience is based on...what? His kids played hockey in this country in some tournament once? And that he had talked into a camera from inside an American TV studio for a telecast that was broadcast north of the border?
For that he gets to deliver the keynote address to the Liberal Party?
But put that aside for a moment. Does Howard Dean have a special interest in Canada? Does Howard Dean have a unique message to deliver to Canadians based on his "long standing relationship"? His fix for the problems between Canada and the US is...to get rid of George W Bush. But then his fix for the problems between Russia and the US is...to get rid of George W Bush. And his fix for the problems between Namibia and the US is...to get rid of George W Bush.
That's deep thinking, Democrat-style. But is it too complex for members of the Liberal Party to understand, I wonder. Well, if it looks like the audience is losing track of Dean's complex political thinking and their attention begins to wander, he can always scream at them.
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Just like a Lie-beral. Accuse everyone else of being in with the Americans and then... THIS??? Figures. (...and screaming Mimi no less! I'm sure it's for the fund raising help they so desperately need because they can't steal as easily.)
Posted by: Anonymous at November 11, 2006 08:30 AM
This is going to be exciting I am getting there early so I can get right at the front. YYeeeeaaahhh!
Actually I think Howard Stern would have been more fun.
Posted by: at November 11, 2006 08:35 AM
You guys can keep him if you want to!
Posted by: Boss429 at November 11, 2006 09:39 AM
Dean just pulled off a huge coup in the Congress. He masterminded the Democrats vistory over the Republicans last week.
This is a good move by the Liberals.
As a former Tory (thanks to flip flop Flaherty) I will be watching with interest.
Posted by: sam at November 11, 2006 10:23 AM
Bringing in 'American Style' politicians? In Canada?
What absolute hypocrites!
It'll be interesting to see how Mothercorpse spins this one. Maybe they'll claim it's 'self-defense'.
Contemptible behaviour, but I expect no less from these weasels!
Boss 429 - Thanx for the offer but we have more than enough of these guys already.
UA
Posted by: Unimpressed Albertan at November 11, 2006 11:56 AM
American Politicians. In Canada. Imported by Liberals. We can't make this stuff up.
Posted by: Someone at November 11, 2006 01:14 PM
As a former Tory (thanks to flip flop Flaherty) I will be watching with interest
A former tory - I don't think so - if Flaherty deciding to tax income trusts is what you say has made you into a Liberal - you never were a Tory to begin with.
Soooooo - my question to you would be - as you watch this with interest - how come the Tories get dissed for any apperance of having an American give them advice but the Liberals get lauded for it? Huh - How come?
Posted by: at November 11, 2006 01:47 PM
I'm with Boss429, you can keep him.
Actually now that I think about it, I want him back. I want him to run the Dem's presidential campaign. This should be great, if the Republicans can come up with a decent candidate.
And Sam, this is Hillary's worst nightmare. A Democratic House and Senate HAS to produce results. They just can't blame Bush anymore. It is a whole different ball game now. Just this week I was listening to them backtrack and waffle. All of the sudden, immediate withdrawl doesn't sound so good. We have to stabilize the area first. Sound familiar? It should, Bush has been saying that for over a year.
Oh, and 1 more thing, Sam. The Dems didn't sweep the elections overwhelmingly. Analysis shows that the Republicans lost the election by failing to keep to their base. Dean is a weak leader, and I am ecstatic over the fact that almost everyone, with the exception of Hillary and her gang, love him to death. The Clintons really are good politicians. They know that Dean is an albatross around the party's neck.
So please, send him back! We have new elections to hold in 2 years.
Posted by: cincimaddog at November 11, 2006 02:16 PM
This means that the liberals are taking their marching orders from the American?.....No?
Posted by: Bolshevik at November 12, 2006 12:16 AM
I posted at Dust My Broom earlier today (‘am having difficulty posting here):
‘Waiting with baited breath to see what Howard Dean has to offer in the way of advice to our democratically challenged Librano Party.
Maybe that they run a bunch of conservative candidates to narrowly beat Conservative candidates in the next election? He’d have to find a euphamistic way of explaining this to the Librano$ and the MSM, otherwise they’d freak out, but I’m sure our EE-HAW expert on winning elections will be able to come up with a suitably veiled explanation.
He wouldn’t want any conservative/CPC Canadians to get the idea that conservative ideas are selling these days, would he?
On another thread at Dust My Broom, a commentator asked, "If it takes a village to raise a child, what kind of child do you get from a village full of idiots?”
I ventured how about Howard Dean?
Posted by: 'been around the block at November 12, 2006 08:10 AM
I thought they hated the bastards?
Posted by: at November 12, 2006 10:10 AM
Will Caroline Parrish be at this meeting of US boot-lickers.
Posted by: WImpy Canadian at November 12, 2006 08:45 PM
Dean is misoversyllabalizing.
"Contemptuousness"???? Contempt would not only have been adequate, but also correct, English.
Posted by: WImpy Canadian at November 12, 2006 08:53 PM
 
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