NYTimes - "I am no longer actively pursuing the presidency," Dr. Dean said in a televised speech from Burlington, Vt., where he had returned after finishing a distant third in the Wisconsin Democratic primary on Tuesday. "We will, however, continue to build a new organization using our enormous grass-roots network to continue the effort to transform the Democratic Party and to change our country."
Dr. Dean, a former Vermont governor, issued a call to arms, urging his supporters to keep active in the primaries, to champion progressive delegates and political candidates, and to run for office themselves. "We will change the face of democracy so that it represents ordinary Americans once again — government that will not be bought and sold," he declared.
"We are not going away," he added. "We are staying together, unified, all of us."
"The bottom line is that we must beat George W. Bush in November, whatever it takes," he said.
"We have exposed the dangerous radical nature of George W. Bush's agenda," he said. "We have demonstrated to other Democrats it is a far better strategy to stand up to the right-wing agenda of George W. Bush than it is to cooperate with it. We have led this party back to considering what its heart and soul is, although there is a lot of work left to do."
Lest we forget - the real Iowa speech - ARRAAAAGH can't be heard.
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