{"id":6453,"date":"2006-01-26T16:42:21","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T21:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6453"},"modified":"2006-01-26T16:42:21","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T21:42:21","slug":"deans-elevator-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/deans-elevator-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean&#8217;s &#8216;elevator pitch&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t see the interview, but Howard Dean was on NBC&#8217;s Today Show this morning and was asked to describe what the Dem Party stands for in 30 seconds. I&#8217;d say he has a <a href=\"http:\/\/hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com\/archives\/2006\/01\/dean_on_today_s.html\">pretty damn good response<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One: American jobs that will stay in America, using energy independence to generate those jobs. Two: a strong national defense based on telling the truth to our citizens, our soldiers and our allies. Three: Honesty and integrity to be restored to government. Four: A health care system that works for everybody just like they have in 36 other countries. Five: a strong public education system so we can optimism and opportunity back in America.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Katie Couric responded, &#8220;Thank you for staying in the 30 second time frame.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also thank him for having such a solid answer on tap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t see the interview, but Howard Dean was on NBC&#8217;s Today Show this morning and was asked to describe what the Dem Party stands for in 30 seconds. I&#8217;d say he has a pretty damn good response. &#8220;One: American jobs that will stay in America, using energy independence to generate those jobs. Two: a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}