"It was a Monday just after the DNC meetings in Orlando, the weekend of the 10th of December. As perhaps the most dramatic year in Howard Dean’s life draws to a close, he sounds less reflective than focused, with not a trace of wistfulness for what might have been. Lingering bitterness over the sandbagging and internecine candidate statements in the Iowa primary, resentment at being forced into a role as avatar for a clearly flawed candidate and badly prosecuted general campaign, all that seems to be the province of his many supporters, not Howard Dean. With his characteristic intensity, he purposefully moves ahead on his path, focused even more precisely on his goal: to remake the Democratic Party. Maybe “remake” isn’t really the right choice of words. And the focus on the Democratic Party, even that is too narrow. We are talking about no less than a Renaissance of the populace. Reinvigoration of long moribund participatory democracy free and unfettered by corporate lobbyists. A return to Core Values of the American Ideal. For Howard Dean and his legions, this is the goal. I march with them. It is with this as a background that I pursued my conversation with him, via his cell phone." Here's the interview in People For Change. It touches the issues of the DFA, DFC and the DNC as well as Dean's belief that the "third rail issues are the coziness with big corporations which are basically helping to destroy America’s standard of living, and the questionable activities around voting."
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