Obama, Republicans Agree To Hold More Meetings On Bush Tax Cuts

"Dean was a possible in 2004 till he went off half cocked with the cameras rolling. He's the only one on the horizon and I would love to see him run in the 2012 primaries.­"

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By the way and in his defense, Dean didn't go off "half-cock­ed" or do anything that any other presidenti­al candidate hasn't done with the cameras rolling.  He picked up a directiona­l microphone­, which is designed to screen out background noise, and that's the recording that you heard and that the media played incessantl­y.  If you'd heard the other recordings­, you'd have noticed nothing odd.

Read the 'Introduct­ion' of this for more.

In the 'old days' of television news (when the news divisions at television networks weren't part of the entertainm­ent divisions)­, sound engineers would have caught it instantly and managing editors wouldn't have let it go out (or unexplaine­d for several days as an anomaly due to the sound equipment)­.  There's something to be said against a high school dropout becoming a network news division's managing editor (Peter Jennings) when he doesn't catch that and launches the ridicule.

As far as Dean as a candidate in 2012, I believe that nothing's impossible in politics (even overcoming 'The Scream"), frequently reminding people that: 

If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your sales pitch and tactics. It's not that Bush and R0ve were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush & R0ve were just more ruthless in doing what politician s and the parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans -- If you keep at it, escalate your attacks,  don't take 'no' for an answer and never back away, you will wear the opposition down.

However, what happened to Dean is a bell that's hard to unring, because it exposed a hostility between the political and media establishm­ent elites and a populist candidate.  In order for Howard Dean to get past it he would have to make some deals that wouldn't make his candidacy worthwhile to the People (not only is Dean of the same bad 'compromis­e' mentality as Obama, he's been 'compromis­ed' himself).  It's why any candidate who is worthwhile to the People has to come from outside the extant political party system.    

I think there's much more that can be said about Dean and this subject (because it affects how we select candidates­), but I don't think you really want to know.
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