{"id":151,"date":"2004-12-08T17:14:12","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T17:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2004-12-08T17:14:12","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T17:14:12","slug":"dean_on_moral_values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2004\/12\/08\/dean_on_moral_values\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean on Moral Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to disprove the old adage that there are no second acts in American life, former Vermont governor\/presidential candidate Howard Dean is now apparently pursuing the chair of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/\">Democratic National Committee<\/a>, which, as I understand it, is essentially the core of the Democratic Party itself (somebody correct me if I&#8217;ve got that wrong). I was fairly dubious about the idea of Dean as President, but I think the idea of Dean as Chairman of the Party is pretty intriguing, especially after reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracyforamerica.com\/features\/2004\/12\/08\/governor_deans_gwu_speech_transcript.php\">transcript<\/a> of a speech he delivered this afternoon at George Washington University. It&#8217;s a good speech, if you&#8217;re interested in such things, and a compelling vision of what the Democrats ought to be all about. (As it so happens, Governor Dean&#8217;s ideas about what the party needs to do correspond pretty heavily with my own. Make of that what you will.)<\/p>\n<p>What really caught my eye, however, was a brief section in which Dean addresses the moral values issue I&#8217;ve been discussing here on Simple Tricks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pundits have said that this election was decided on the issue of moral values. I don&#8217;t believe that. It is a moral value to provide health care. It is a moral value to educate our young people. The sense of community that comes from full participation in our Democracy is a moral value. Honesty is a moral value.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If this election had been decided on moral values, Democrats would have won.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is time for the Democratic Party to start framing the debate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have anything more to add; I believe those ideas speak for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to disprove the old adage that there are no second acts in American life, former Vermont governor\/presidential candidate Howard Dean is now apparently pursuing the chair of the Democratic National Committee, which, as I understand it, is essentially the core of the Democratic Party itself (somebody correct me if I&#8217;ve got that wrong). I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}