Cheney: Evil, Mean-Spirited Crank: personal Attacks on Dean

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"Maybe his mother loved him, but I've never met anybody who does."
That's what Dick Cheney had to say about my brother, Howard Dean, on Monday.

This wasn't a quote from an insecure schoolyard bully at recess -- this
was our vice president speaking on prime time television. It's outrageous!

But then again, this is a guy who has no regrets about misleading
America into a war with Iraq and the deaths of over 1,700 brave men and women in uniform. He has no remorse over mismanaging our nation's economy and running up the biggest deficit in history. He wants to destroy Social Security. And he has given away billions to his corporate cronies at Halliburton.

Howard has said a lot of things about Republicans, but he was wrong
about Dick Cheney. Dick Cheney has worked a day in his life -- and the nation is worse off because of it.

Vice President Cheney says he has never met anyone who likes Howard - well, it's time for us to re-introduce ourselves to him.

It's time to bring back the bat.

What Cheney said was over the top.

After 10 straight victorious elections in Vermont, battling the left and
the right to balance budgets and enact Civil Unions, running a
transformative presidential primary campaign and winning the chair of the Democratic National Committee - and now transforming it into a bottom-up operation, Howard has grown some pretty thick skin. He's fair game for Dick Cheney and the Republican shock troops. But, Howard can and will continue to do what he does best: speak truth to power.

We need to let Dick Cheney know that even his penchant for putting
innocent family members in his cross hairs will never stop us from
speaking truth to power either.

So the bat is back.

Democracy for America will use the funds raised to spread the word about the Downing Street Memo and the Secret UK Eyes Only briefing paper that definitively prove that the Bush administration "fixed" the facts leading to the Iraq war -- and that they made virtually no plans for what would come after the military victory.

American soldiers and innocent Iraqi civilians die every day because of this travesty. And it was Dick Cheney who was and remains one of the war's biggest cheerleaders.

Help Democracy for America get the Downing Street Memo into the hands of high school students, hair dressers, clergy and the news director at your local television station. Hit the bat now:

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/bat

Thank you for all that you do,

Jim Dean
Democracy for America

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