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Dean continues to suffer from foot 'n mouth disease
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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I'm pretty sure that Dean wasn't calling them racists. I think he was acknowledging that the group, with the damned Confederate flags (which most of them would say have nothing to do with racism, and much more to do with Southern heritage, but then I'm a Texan, so what do I know about the south?), needs to be picked up by the Democratic party.
Sharpton called Dean a racist.
Salon notes that Dean has said this before, back when he was an underdog that didn't have snowball's chance in hell of winning the primary, and that he generally got standing ovations when he said it.
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Dean wasn't calling them racists -- he was saying that the party needs to speak for them. What Dean said didn't seem bad to me, and my thought is that Kerry et al. thought they could score cheap points off him by getting the words "Dean" and "confederate flag" into the same sentence.
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