Dean: Dems Have No Bars to Heaven

I was just thinking about Howard Dean. I was wondering what he's been up to lately.

He's still out there, still being Howard Dean.

From Politico:

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean came out for inclusive team prayers in public schools while speaking Sunday to a gathering of thousands of Jewish leaders, according to a leading Jewish news agency.

In another statement likely to stir debate among the evangelical Christians his party is urgently trying to court, Dean also asserted “there are no bars to heaven for anybody,” according to the report by JTA, a 90-year-old non-profit organization which calls itself “the global news service of the Jewish people.”

...The news agency said Dean made the remarks to 3,500 Jewish leaders at the opening plenary session of the annual General Assembly of the United Jewish Communities which the group calls “the largest annual gathering of Jewish leadership in the world.”

The report said Dean’s comments followed an address by the University of Tennessee's head basketball coach, Bruce Pearl (former UWM basketball coach), who told the crowd that as a Jewish student in public schools, he always felt uncomfortable when he was playing sports and his team's pre-game prayers would end with an invocation to Jesus.

"This country is not a theocracy," Dean said, according to JTA. "There are fundamental differences between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party believes that everybody in this room ought to be comfortable being an American Jew, not just an American; that there are no bars to heaven for anybody; that we are not a one-religion nation; and that no child or member of a football team ought to be able to cringe at the last line of a prayer before going onto the field."

...The report said that in a “decidedly partisan speech,” Dean “painted the Republican Party as religiously and racially exclusive.”

So a vote for the Dems is a vote for liberty and heaven for all.

A chicken in every pot. A car in every garage. A pass to get into heaven.

Promises, promises.

Dean is so divisive. The Dems' outreach to people of faith isn't a positive movement. It plays on negativity. I don't think the Dems will be successful in their attempt to paint themselves as the religion-friendly party at the same time that they use faith as a means to divide.

And to think that four years ago it appeared that Dean was on the road to being the Democrat party's nominee for president.