POLITICO's recent specious article saying that "Dean not a contender for health secretary"

People are still talking about Bush and Iraq war. I thin this topic should be finished for today.

by Ashin Mettacara (67 articles, 14 quicklinks, 23 diaries, 74 comments) on Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 6:19:16 AM

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People are still dying over there daily, and you really think we should stop talking about it? You can't be serious....

by Stephen Fox (98 articles, 4 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 834 comments [38 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:08:15 AM

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as long as it is raging, and costing money, and killing Iraqis and Americans?

by Eliot Gould (16 articles, 0 quicklinks, 28 diaries, 200 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:17:42 AM

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I not only contributed to Doctor Howard Dean's presidential campaign, I'm a member here at OEN.  As a result of that membership, I received and read Rob Kall's newsletter to members yesterday, containing a mention of his support for Dean for Director of HHS.  And as a result of that mention, I made out a small check to "Op Ed News" and I intend to mail it tomorrow.

Let's hope the rumors are true, and let's hope fervently that Barak Obama has the smarts to appoint Howard Dean his Director of the Department of Health and Human Services.

by GLloyd Rowsey (124 articles, 78 quicklinks, 80 diaries, 1141 comments [53 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:44:48 AM

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when I wrote this article. It is an old lawyer trick: deliver bad news on a Friday so you can ruin their weekend, and then Monday, they will be more cooperative, having sweat bullets over the weekend.

What is amazing is that Huffington Post and MSNBC picked up this article, and by doing so, it becomes 'GOSPEL TRUTH, mired in wet concrete."

Enunciating your Cabinet choices is one thing, but speculating as this Politico article did is really wrong. I prefer to trust Obama's choices and to wait and see what they are, not advance some corporate driven drivel right out of the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, where this Politico author used to work.

We have to have higher standards in journalism, speaking as a journalist and as an editor!

by Stephen Fox (98 articles, 4 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 834 comments [38 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:14:02 AM

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I am glad also that this was posted, but the damage is partially done and very hard to correct. Next week will reveal what position Dr. Dean should get, and that is Obama's decision, not some hatchet job writer for Politico to determine! Dr. Dean got trashed by conservative media after his perfectly normal yell in Iowa, and I don't want to see this continue to happen, wherein corporate media takes on our brightest and most able politicians and dumps rancor and idiocy on them to titillate and mislead the masses.

by Eliot Gould (16 articles, 0 quicklinks, 28 diaries, 200 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:23:04 AM

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Truly, the media has enormous power, and if someone has an axe to grind, like a corporate melange with a few pals in the ranks of journalists, they can do enormous damage. Those with the educators' axe to grind, i.e., those trying to teach something through their writings, well, that's fine by me. How else would we progress without the educators?

by Eliot Gould (16 articles, 0 quicklinks, 28 diaries, 200 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:13:24 AM

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Until change comes and restores the Real Journalism, we may still continue dealing with facts that are not well founded to represent reality.

More than anybody, Dean deserves the best post in Obama's administration. Why? Two main reasons: first he was able to bring change to DNC by creating a winning plan to

Show Up Everywhere

Strengthen State Parties and the Grassroots

Focus on Core values

Take advantage of cutting Edge Technologies

Train Tomorrow’s Leaders

Second, he's the required experienced and he's medical doctor who worked hard for his patients in healthcare.

Those who criticize Dean need to educate themselves and come with stronger, more convincing arguments that state the contrary.

by Lydia Kopere Patterson (6 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 156 comments) on Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:21:04 PM

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After four years of stressful politics to the max as DNC chairman, I would think a physician would want to get back to Medicine. It will be a telling appointment, both HHS and FDA actually, because if Obama appoints a real consumer protectionist for both jobs, we will improve as a Nation health wise. If not, NOT. It is really just that simple. Watch this appointment, as it involves far more than giving the job to someone who can sweet talk both Houses of Congress into supporting Obama's Health Plans, which I am sure are his highest priorities.

My highest priorities are protecting the American public from corporate mendacity at the FDA, as well as any and all other nations' citizens' health, since they rely on the BS Mythologies of the "FDA's integrity," and other such malarkey.

by Eliot Gould (16 articles, 0 quicklinks, 28 diaries, 200 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:47:58 PM

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I really appreciate it, and hope we are developing a longer dialogue about these clearly vital matters, which few Americans seems to know about and even fewer seem to care about!

by Stephen Fox (98 articles, 4 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 834 comments [38 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:57:40 PM

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