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Originally posted by abaici
Interesting article. While people were up in arms about his "pick up trucks with confederate flags" comment, I got the point. The charactization was a little classist, but he's right. The democratic party needs those people. As the article stated, they need to vote for their interests, not their bosses.
Ok, I like Wesley Clark as a possible running mate. He provides the foreign policy/military experience that Dean lacks. He's also popular enough.
Dean has an interesting take on affirmatice action. One idea he forwarded was that affirmative action should be based on class, and not race. What do you think? I think it's an interesting stance
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That's something I will have to look into before I can articulate a good position. I was reading a British newspaper article about Henry Louis Gates, and he argued that affirmative action/integration/etc. has only benefited middle-class people and above, which many of us know but to me, is still interesting to read.
His point was that AA/integration/etc. does not and will not have the power to lift many people out of dire straits.