Friday, November 30, 2007

GOP Race Getting Dirty

Such tactics by people who play dirty have moved beyond the destruction of yard signs or push polls that ply caucusgoers with misleading or inaccurate information.

This time, they've taken to the Internet in the form of e-mail accounts made to look like they were sent from campaign officials.
The latest was an e-mail that was sent this week, using the name of a field director for Republican Mitt Romney's campaign and telling voters that one of Rudy Giuliani's advisers is a "pedophile priest."
The e-mail directed voters to a blog item on InsideCatholic.com about Monsignor Alan Placa, a longtime friend of Giuliani's. Placa, who officiated at Giuliani's second wedding and works in his consulting firm, has been accused of molesting two boys in New York.
 
 


  
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Democratic Congress Still Polling High In The polls

Despite recent coverage of shifting attitudes toward the war in Iraq and the Democratic Congress, the latest public polls show the country's political environment remains fundamentally unchanged, with President Bush and Republicans in Congress still deeply unpopular and Democrats maintaining a significant electoral advantage at the congressional level one year before the next election. Broad disapproval of Congress as an institution reflects the massive change dynamic still driving the electorate and is not directed at the new Democratic leadership.


  
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Ryan Skipper's Family Speaks Out

YouTube Video: Ryan Skipper PSA

Ryan Skipper's Parents: Questions For GOP Cadidates On YouTube Dabate

Becoming public figures for gay rights was not something they hesitated to do - once Pat Mulder got over her fear of public speaking.

"Do we sit and do nothing or do we become advocates and make something good out of a tragedy?" asked Lynn Mulder, 49.


"People can believe whatever they want to believe, but they shouldn't use it to jeopardize lives," Pat Mulder said.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

De-Gaying The CNN/YOUTUBE GOP Debate

UPDATE:

They did do don't-ask-don't-tell and Log Cabin Republicans. A print reporter said, earlier today, who'd just been on the phone with a CNN executive, reported that a at HuffPo and here and elsewhere online seems to have drawn some blood at CNN, and that if they ended up going anywhere near the discomfort level of a homophobia question in the debate, it was because they'd been dragged there, kicking and screaming, by the net roots. You know what? It doesn't matter what it took; in this case, in the end, they did the right thing.

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Over 4,000 Americans have submitted video questions for the candidates who have been humiliated into participating this week in the entertainment marketing scam known officially as The CNN/YouTube Republican Debate. It's bad enough that presidential aspirants of both parties are so cowed by the networks that they have ceded their dignity, not to mention our democracy, to these degrading gongshows, complete with breathless postgame analyses by the same preening interlocutors who posed as neutral referees just moments before. But the faux populism of the YouTube format is an Orwellian leap even for CNN, where anchors are already required to i.d. correspondents as "part of the best political team on television." (Every time Wolf says that, an angel is lethally injected.)

Have you looked at the questions submitted on YouTube? An astonishing number of them are heartfelt inquiries about gayness in America. Lynn and Pat Mulder of Auburndale, Florida talk about their son Ryan, who was murdered in March because he was gay; they ask the candidates what they will do to make this the kind of country where that will not happen. Former Major League baseball player Billy Bean asks whether the GOP candidates will "stop embracing religion-based bigotry against gays and lesbians." If you flip through the posted videos, it seems as though every twenty questions there's the face of a teenager talking about being born gay, a twenty-something talking about being Christian and gay, a plea about LGBT hate crimes, about the Godliness of all human love, about the depression and suicide fostered by fundamentalist preachers and their political fellow-travelers.

You could fill the entire two hours of the CNN/YouTube debate with those questions. But if the New York Times' account of how the seven-person CNN team will select the winning questions is accurate, actually you won't see a single one of them during the televised debate. David Bohrman, CNN's Washington bureau chief and executive producer of the debate, told the Times' blog The Caucus that posts "asking the candidates to defend their opposition to gay marriage" are "'lobbying grenades' [that] would be disqualified by the CNN selection team... There are quite a few things you might describe as Democratic 'gotchas,' and we are weeding those out'... CNN wants to ensure that next Wednesday's Republican event is 'a debate of their party.'"

Not only is this stunningly disrespectful to the many Log Cabin and other self-described gay Republicans who submitted YouTube questions; it's also a telling reminder of the game that CNN is really playing. Sure, their Web site says "YOU ask the questions of the candidates" ("Be original... Be personal"). But if YOU don't fit the CNN profiling division's definition of a Republican, then no matter how personal your sexual orientation may be, no matter how original you are in the way you ask it, the CNN team will yank you from the questioner pool like cyber-crabgrass.

The notion that the CNN/YouTube debate represents a grass-roots triumph of the Internet age is laughable. The 4,000+ videos are pawns; the questioners are involuntary shills, deployed by the network producers in no less deliberate, calculating and manipulative a fashion as the words and stories fed by teleprompters into anchors' mouths. If you want to see what a legitimate grass-roots online debate looks like, have a gander at 10questions. com. At that site, it's not concealed network gatekeepers who decide what citizens' questions should be censored; it's the same community who submitted them in the first place that gets to vote. What's more, they also get to vote on whether the candidates adequately answered the questions. Apparently that's too much democracy for CNN. I guess it would be way too embarrassing if part of the best political team in America turned out not to be on television at all.


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National Poll Averages by Month

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Head to Head 2007 Summary Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
Hillary Clinton 45.2 43.2 43.0 44.5 44.6 44.4 44.5 43.3 47.1 45.9 47.3
Rudy Giuliani 48.5 48.8 45.6 48.5 45.1 43.7 41.2 45.7 41.6 43.1 42.6
Margin -3.3 -5.7 -2.6 -4.0 -0.5 0.7 3.4 -2.3 5.5 2.7 4.8
2007 State Poll Averages
State Hillary Clinton Rudy Giuliani
Alabama 43.0 50.0
Arizona 36.8 52.5
California 52.4 38.0
Colorado 44.0 50.0
Connecticut 44.0 44.7
Florida 43.5 46.3
Iowa 44.4 40.2
Kansas 34.0 50.0
Kentucky 47.0 45.0
Maine 48.0 37.0
Massachusetts 59.0 36.0
Michigan 47.5 44.0
Minnesota 48.0 41.3
Missouri 47.0 42.3
Nevada 45.0 49.0
New Hampshire 43.5 44.5
New Jersey 42.5 43.7
New York 50.0 35.9
North Carolina 36.0 47.0
Ohio 44.5 42.6
Oregon 48.0 45.0
Pennsylvania 43.3 45.8
Rhode Island 51.5 32.5
Tennessee 43.0 43.0
Texas 35.0 41.0
Virginia 46.0 45.5
Washington 45.3 40.5
Wisconsin 48.5 41.5
These polls are not necessarily sorted by date. Browse for the latest polls.

Friday, November 23, 2007

NYC Fire Chief: Giuliani Is A Coward

NYC Fire Chief Says Giuliani Ran Away like a Coward on 9/11

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Tell Your Senators: Don't Cave on the Energy Bill

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According to our sources, the leaders in the Senate are negotiating a compromise energy bill. This compromise would sell out clean energy for wind and solar and include huge subsidies for ethanol and nuclear power. In exchange, we would get the promise of modest increases in automobile fuel efficiency standards, if environmentalists in the Senate can get a majority to stand up and hold the line.
This is unacceptable. And given the Senate's track record in the last few weeks, we have little confidence that the leadership will not cave to the Bush administration yet again.
Tell your senators (and we'll send a cc fax to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid) to oppose any compromise bill that:
  • does not include standards or goals for the percentage of our energy portfolio that comes from renewable sources (renewable portfolio standards, or RPS) and does not include a critical tax incentive for producers of wind and solar power.
  • provides for practically unlimited loan guarantees for private companies to build new nuclear power plants, with taxpayers on the hook for the risks involved.
  • advances the Bush agenda with massive subsidies for corn-based ethanol -- which takes almost as much energy to produce as it yields, and drives up food prices in the process.
  • placates oil companies and automakers with a weak fuel efficiency standard when heroic measures are needed to stop global warming.
The Senate needs to know that we are watching. Your messages can make a big difference right now. If our representatives in Congress hear from us in large numbers over the next few days, we may be able to convince them to vote against the leadership's back room deal.
So take action at right and tell your senators that you want bold leadership on the energy bill. Let them know there will be hell to pay if they cave to the Bush administration and their cronies in the oil and gas lobby. (We'll send a copy of your comments to Majority Leader Reid by fax.)


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Tell Secretary Rice: Stop Military Aid to Musharraf


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Pakistan is on the brink of chaos. An unpopular president with close ties to the Bush administration has imposed martial law, sacked the Supreme Court and shut down the media. And now General Musharraf is abusing the threat of terrorism to throw thousands of moderate democratic opposition leaders in prison.
With the imposition of martial law, elections planned for January 2008 have been indefinitely postponed. These elections must be held on schedule and they should be free and fair -- with opposition leaders freed, the constitution restored and the election independently overseen. The General depends on foreign military aid and international recognition.
The United States is currently sending approximately $1 billion per year to the Musharraf regime for military assistance; unfortunately General Musharraf seems to have largely called off the hunt for Al Qaeda in Pakistan.
We must condemn General Musharraf's crackdown and suspend military aid to Pakistan until the constitution is restored, and free and fair elections are ensured. Send a fax to Secretary of State Rice, with an emailed copy to President Bush in the White House, asking them to cut off funding to the Pakistani regime until democarcy is restored.
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Gerald Ford: "There was a conspiracy to kill John F. Kennedy,"

Ford argues that the CIA destroyed information about the assassination, but he "contends with interesting specificity that Oswald was the only shooter.
"There was a conspiracy to kill John F. Kennedy," says Tim Miller, CEO of FlatSigned.com, in a release. "There is no doubt that President Gerald Ford knew more about the JFK death. There is no doubt President Clinton knows more. Has he or any other US President since November 22, 1963 ever swore under oath that they know no more?"
 


  
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W= Worst President Ever

The Bush presidency will be found to have perverted not only our system but also the very principles on which our nation was founded ...more

Trillions for Endless War Leaves Everglades Restoration High, Dry and Dying

 

The multibillion-dollar project to restore the Everglades has come to a near standstill, and the government can no longer estimate how much it will cost or how long it will take, the top federal official in charge of construction told The Associated Press.

In part because Congress has failed to come through with the promised money, some tasks have fallen years behind schedule. In the meantime, construction costs are rising, along with the price of the Florida real estate that must be bought up as part of the plan to restore the natural flow of water in the Everglades.

The largest wetlands restoration effort in the world — approved in 2000 and formally known as the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, or CERP — was originally estimated to cost $7.8 billion and take 30 years. By last year, the price tag had been put at $10.5 billion, and experts said it could take 50 years.

Now it's anybody's guess.

"I don't know what the cost of CERP is right now because the cost of land down there has skyrocketed and the cost of construction in South Florida has also gone through the roof," Gary Hardesty, the Everglades restoration chief for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, told the AP.

Because of the uncertainty over federal funding and a lack of scientific data that the projects will actually work, Hardesty said, the Corps is being forced to adopt a slower, more deliberate pace.

The project — signed into law by President Clinton with bipartisan support — called for the construction of reservoirs, back-filling of canals and rerouting of water to rescue the fast-shrinking Everglades and preserve the remarkable variety of plants and wildlife that inhabit it, including egrets, rare orchids, alligators and panthers.

'Price just keeps going up'
Eric Draper, policy director for the conservation group Audubon of Florida, was once optimistic but now isn't so sure.

"The federal government simply isn't in a position now to be able to afford the promises made with Everglades restoration, and the price just keeps going up," Draper said. "The federal government is broke. The state has deep budget shortfalls. Where's the money going to come from?"

The Everglades once covered 4 million acres of swampland but has shrunk to half its size over the past 150 years because of the building of dikes, dams and homes in booming Florida and the effects of the sugar cane fields and other farms on its fringes. The swampland that remains is in ecological distress because of pollution from urban runoff and farm fertilizers.

The 2000 plan made the federal government and Florida 50-50 partners in the project to heal the River of Grass.

To date, the state has committed more than $2 billion and pushed ahead alone with a few projects — including the building of several reservoirs to store water for use during dry spells — in the hope the Corps would catch up.

But in large part because of the cost of the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina, Congress has appropriated only several million dollars. And the only work that has been done on any of the Corps' 68 projects has been on paper.

In the meantime, wildlife habitat continues to disappear, and pollution is killing native plants, allowing nonnative species to invade.



  
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Karl Rove Gives GOP Candidates Advice

 
"Rove has no substantive advice to give to candidates other than to 'smile and pretend Bush doesn't exist.'"
 
The column also included Rove's urgings for the eventual Republican nominee to be "strong on Iraq," to talk about issues like "health care, the cost of college and social mobility," and to go after minority voters "who aren't traditional Republicans."
 
 
Read the full Rove column in Newsweek here.
 
 
The following video is from MSNBC's Abrams Report, broadcast on November 19, 2007

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Statement on Transgender Day of Remembrance

(Tuesday, November 20, 2007)
 
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the National Stonewall Democrats released the following statement in commemoration of the Transgender Day of Remembrance:
 
Today, our community remembers the those among us whose lives were lost because of the bigotry shown towards their expression of gender. Transgender Americans are routinely asked to employ a level of courage which few of us maintain. Where ignorance responds to that courage with a display of violence, our community must reward courage with a demonstration of commitment.
Violence towards transgender Americans can be dramatically reduced by affirming individual dignity through equal enforcement of employment and hate crime laws. If we are serious about reducing violence towards transgender Americans, then we must proactively work towards providing all of our community equal protection under the law. It is our actions, rather than words, which which will demonstrate our tribute.

Stonewall Democrats take our own name from an historic catalyst, the Stonewall Inn riots, an event largely created under the leadership of transgender members of our community. Today, transgender Democrats continue to demonstrate their contribution to LGBT advancement within our organization as chapter presidents, board members and officers of individual state Democratic parties.

Whenever transgender citizens are told that their inclusion hinders the advancement of the LGBT movement, our own history is ignored and strategic lessons forgotten. As we remember the lives of those we have lost, we must work to secure equal protections for our entire movement. We owe a special duty towards those whose contributions have already led to legal protections for many in our community but not for themselves. If we are to reduce violence against transgender citizens, we must reduce attempts to marginalize transgender Americans within the law and, when necessary, within our own community.
- Jon Hoadley, Executive Director
The Day of Remembrance is a tribute to the lives of transgender Americans who have lost their lives as victims of hate crimes targeting individuals based on gender identity. It is marked on November 20. Begun in 1998, the day was first organized as a vigil in San Francisco to remember the life of Rita Hester following her murder the year before. Today, the LGBT community marks this day with vigils and events across the country.
National Stonewall Democrats is the only national organization of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Democrats, with more than 90 local chapters across the nation. NSD is committed to working through the Democratic Party to advance the rights of all people regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Monday, November 19, 2007

"How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative"

Confessions of a Phone Jammer
Allen Raymond, the Republican political consultant who went to jail after pleading guilty to his involvement in the 2002 New Hampshire phone jamming scheme, is writing a tell-all book about his involvement in "the Republican election machine." During the 2002 midterm election, which included a hotly contested race for U.S. Senate, Raymond and others conspired to flood Democratic get-out-the-vote phone centers. The book, called, "How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative," is slated to come out on Jan. 22 and is co-written by former Page Six columnist Ian Spiegelman READ MORE

"flood the Oval Office with copies of the Constitution this holiday season ... as a seasonal reminder that the Constitution needs to be upheld; not destroyed."

Even though a human rights group believes the Commander in Chief has been naughty, they plan to play Santa Claus this year and make a political statement at the same time.
The Center for Constitutional Rights plans to "flood the Oval Office with copies of the Constitution this holiday season ... as a seasonal reminder that the Constitution needs to be upheld; not destroyed."
 
Those interested can also sign an accompanying letter addressed to President Bush, which poses a multitude of questions reminding the president "that he swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States."
 
"I would have hoped that you'd be pretty familiar with [the Constitution] already," writes the anonymous author, "because you have at least three times in your life taken a solemn oath to uphold, protect and defend it, but all the signs indicate that you either don't know what's in it, or you don't care."
 
The diatribe covers controversial topics such as habeas corpus and torture, and beseeches the President to "uphold, protect and defend [the Constitution], like you swore you would."
Interested parties can donate money to help cover costs if they wish, but the offer itself is completely free. The CCR hopes to send the President more than 25,000 copies of the Constitution by January 2008.
 
Go To: www.ccrjustice.org for more details.

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Court throws out expansion of Pa.'s hate crimes law

 A state court Thursday threw out language that expanded Pennsylvania's hate crimes law to include crimes committed on the basis of the victim's sexual orientation and physical disabilities, ruling the legislative process that led to is passage was unconstitutional.

Commonwealth Court's 5-1 ruling handed a victory to a conservative Christian group called Repent America, which filed a lawsuit in 2005 challenging the amendment of the state hate-crimes law in 2002.



  
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Friday, November 16, 2007

Las Vegas Debate: Wrapup

ABC News' David Chalian: "Targeting Rivals, Clinton Gets Back on Track" LINK
New York Times' PATRICK HEALY and JEFF ZELENY: "Clinton's in Thick of Barbed Democratic Debate" LINK
Washington Post's Anne E. Kornblut and Dan Balz: "Democratic Contenders Step Up Attacks in Debate" LINK
Politico's Ben Smith: "Clinton fights back in Las Vegas" LINK
Wall Street Journal's JACKIE CALMES and CHRISTOPHER COOPER: "Rivals Pick Up Clinton Criticism As Caucuses Near" LINK

Fox News: Campaign Manager For Rudy

Dan Abrams is joined by Air America's Rachel Maddow and others to discuss Rudy Giuliani's very special relationship with FOX News
The following video is from MSNBC's Abrams Report, broadcast on November 14, 2007
 

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Dems Challenged on Immigration

Dems Challenged on Immigration

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Cynthia Tucker shows why she won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in her Sunday op-ed, "Democrats must lead way on immigration." Any Dems thinking about going all wobbly on the issue should first give Tucker's eloquent essay a read. Tucker gives the GOP a richly-deserved blistering for their nativist position on immigration and adds:
...here's some counterintuitive advice for the Democratic ranks: Don't hedge. Lead. Do the right thing. Come out clearly and forcefully for putting illegal immigrants already in the country on a path to citizenship. This is no time to trim or triangulate. Show some spine. America is ready for reasoned leadership on this issue.
...So let the GOP be the party of fear and division. Democrats ought to stand for something else. The modern Democratic Party also made its choice in the 1960s, choosing hope over fear, tolerance over division and the beloved community over bigotry.
...This is no time for Democrats to turn their backs on that heritage. America is too generous and compassionate to expel millions of productive and otherwise law-abiding people. The nation has taken advantage of their labor for decades, and it would be inhumane (and outrageously expensive) to round them up and send them back.
Tucker suggests a reasonable alternative:
But Americans also want to be assured that this is the last time a broad legalization option is offered to illegal immigrants. Democrats ought to make it clear that they'll enforce the borders and crack down on employers who hire illegally, a cheaper and more effective strategy for addressing the problem than building fences. After a few CEOs have done the perp walk for illegal hiring, they'll stop offering jobs to those without proper documents. And when word gets across the border that U.S. companies have stopped hiring, those laborers will stop coming. They come for jobs, after all, not jihad.
This is a win-win platform. Not only is it wise and honorable, calling on the highest ideals of a nation of immigrants, it can also produce victories at the ballot box. Last week, Virginia Democrats made gains in state and local elections even though the state has been embroiled in fiery debate over illegal immigration. As an analysis by the Washington Post concluded, voting trends didn't benefit "those who campaigned the loudest for tough sanctions against illegal immigrants."
Let Republicans take the low road. It doesn't end in a place the rest of the country wants to go.
This debate is just getting started, and Tucker's challenge merits consideration.

Sunday, November 04, 2007

Republican Dirty Tricks Back In California

 
A controversial Republican effort to change the way California distributes its electoral votes is back--with help from key Giuliani supporters hoping to steal enough votes to win the White House. Read more...

365 Day Till The Election

One year out from the 2008 election, Americans are deeply pessimistic and eager for a change in direction from the agenda and priorities of President Bush, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Concern about the economy, the war in Iraq and growing dissatisfaction with the political environment in Washington all contribute to the lowest public assessment of the direction of the country in more than a decade. Just 24 percent think the nation is on the right track, and three-quarters said they want the next president to chart a course that is different than that pursued by Bush.

There's about one year to go before we elect a new president of the United States, and it just can't come soon enough. With the Republican candidates offering up four more years of Bush's policies at home and in Iraq, we can't be content with watching from the sidelines.


That's why the "One Year Out" events were so important, and they were a huge success by any measure. Thousands of grassroots activists gathered in more hundreds and hundreds of homes across the country to launch the new National Neighborhood Leader program. We unveiled our plan for victory next year, which means utilizing technology and the Internet for mass organizing in neighborhoods all across America. We understand that nobody is better able to reach out than the people who live next door who best know and care about the same local issues.

So after learning the strategy, you took to the streets and spoke in your community. And all of us, collectively, did it all across the country as part of the 50-State Strategy that led to massive gains in 2006.

For 2008, it all began today. From now until election day, you can be sure we'll call on you to step up once again.


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Florida GLBT Caucus Demands Kathy Castor Withrdraw Her Endorsement Of Gershom Faulkner

 The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus of the Florida Democratic Party has called on U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor of Tampa to withdraw her endorsement of a St. Petersburg City Council candidate who expressed lack of sympathy with gay rights causes.
The candidate, Gershom Faulkner, is outreach director for Castor.
The caucus made its request in a letter Saturday to Castor from Michael Albetta, president of the Florida GLBT Caucus.
 
According to the letter, Faulkner said during an Aug. 16 appearance before the Pinellas gay Democratic group that he considers homosexuality a lifestyle "preference" or "choice"; he won't attend the annual St. Pete Pride celebration; he won't oppose the proposed state constitutional amendment "that would write discrimination into Florida's Constitution" by limiting marriage to men and women; that he won't support repealing Florida's ban on gay adoptions or gay foster parents; and won't oppose prohibiting straight-gay alliance organizations in public schools.
 
 
Contact Castor At:
 
Washington Office
317 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202)225-3376
Fax: (202)225-5652

Tampa Office
4144 N Armenia Ave
Suite 300
Tampa, FL 33607
Phone: (813)871-2817
Fax: (813)871-2864


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Saturday, November 03, 2007

Dean: Dems 'only writing off the hard right'

We're only writing off the hard right that beats up on gays and women," Dean said.
 
After meeting with evangelical leaders like Joel Osteen and Rick Warren, Dean said there are some areas where they don't see eye-to-eye but there are similar goals.
 
Dean said they should be able to "sit down and say, let's agree to disagree on Roe. v Wade" without dismissing the possibility of agreeing to try to reduce the number of abortions.
 
Leah Daughtry, the minister Dean picked to head the Democratic National Convention Committee, said abortions should be legal but that churches and community groups should work toward making them rare.
 
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