I am so glad to see Howard Dean getting his props from the blogging community as well as Berman's piece in the Nation. Without Dean, there might very well not have been a Kos, or an Armstrong, or a Marshall, or a Digby, or an Avarosis. Maybe there wouldn't be a Kid Oakland, or a Jerome de Paris or Hyperpolic Pants Explosion or plutonic page or teacherken or bondad or Renee in Ohio or jaysea or donna in evanston. The list goes on and on. Maybe Arianna Huffington would still be sleeping on the conservative side of the bed on Politically Incorrect.
The Dean nation has grown beyond one amazing run for President by one amazing small state governor. We have opened our eyes and our minds to this nation that had nearly become unrecognizable as the hope and ideal in the world. We have combined mousepads and shoeleather to become more than a movement. We have run for office and we have won. We have supported progressive candidates and they have won. We are America today. We are America tomorrow.
Howard Dean speaks for me. And I hope he always will.
Update: It has been suggested to me that I put up a tip jar. I would if I knew how. I may be people-powered, but in some ways I remain unenlightened.