Dean
 

I take it the whole group left in a huff as soon as he said it and ran to the warm embrace of the GOP?

Brit Hume, deceptive hack
 

Well, if we're looking for ways to encourage people to save, don't we actually need something to encourage it beyond suggestions that people save?

Besides, if you want people to save for retirement by putting funds away that they can't (easily) withdraw before retirement, there kind of needs to be a reason for people to opt for that kind of account rather than regular savings accounts.

Maybe we can solve the problem of the poor not saving enough by banning them from getting cable TV, big-screen TVs, season tickets to the NBA, and any other number of luxury items they should not indulge in.

Dean
 

I think that's reaching. If you do go to a R rally/meeting/whatever, you WILL mostly only see blacks in the waitstaff. We can call him racist about this when our tent gets bigger. Not now, though.

Dean
 

What is the racist part? Did he make some Holocaust jokes afterward, or what?

Dean
 

Judge for yourself:

• "You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room?," Dean asked to laughter. "Only if they had the hotel staff in here."
  
  His style ever will be blunt: "We have to never be afraid to say what we believe," he insists

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/02/15/122832.php

presidential fetish
 

This reminds me of the old story about George S. Kauffman, who was a screenwriter and playwright who worked with, inter alia, the Marx Brothers. Kaffman was eating in the NBC Commissary one day when a studio exec walked past him. The exec ran his head over Kauffman's bald head and remarked, "That's as soft as my wife's bottom."

"Yes. Yes it is," Kauffman replied.

Brit Hume, deceptive hack
 

Well, they can't buy NHL tix. Not sure if the effect will be an appreciable one.

Dean
 

You can't be serious

Dean
 

What was racist about it? The restaurant industry in this part of the country is entirely dependent on people of color (specifically Hispanics). I don't think it's much different in any other part of the country.

Go rent A Day Without a Mexican. Or better yet, go out to lunch and take a look at the people who are working in the restaurant.

ETA link to movie and statement that same applies for hotel industry.

Brit Hume, deceptive hack
 

Our entire governmental philosophy is based on the idea that we gently suade people to engage in "correct" behavior. Are you dissenting?

Dean
 

You are an incompetent fool, an offense
against the world.

Dean
 

Again, although Bilmore said it better. The comment wasn't racist; it was a slam on Republicans.

Dean
 

Not all mentions of race equate to racism.

Truth is a defense as to each side of that statement you might dislike. (Holy Crud -- Dean suggested that the wait staff at a convention hotel is likely to be largely people of color! The horror!)

What Bilmore said.

S_A_M

Dean
 

Club, I don't really like web lingo, but I am rolling on the floor laughing my ass off. Check out this righteous indignation:

"So, does Howard Dean believe that members of the Black Community are disproportionately represented as hotel staff in this country?

It's demeaning, it's belittling, and I'm completely floored that he would level such an insulting remark upon this community. "

Courtesy of: David Flanagan
Viewpointjournal.com

"All right, we'll give some land to the niggers and the chinks, but we DON'T WANT THE IRISH."

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/quotes

Brit Hume, deceptive hack
 

People on hotel staffs do not watch hockey.