Howard Dean Lie? Say It Ain't So!

I heard the man with my own lying ears say, I paraphrase, "No Democrat has ever take a dime from Jack Abramoff".

Heh.

Now we discover, oh no, that not only have plenty of Democrats taken money from Abramoff or his associates, but that Howard Dean himself was also a recipient.
From the American Thinker:

Even the Washington Post has admitted that Abramoff did not work in a vacuum on the controversial Indian tribal accounts. The Post went so far as to publish a chart of what it called the "A Team."

Among the recipients of campaign contributions from A Team members: Howard Dean.

FEC contribution number 23991382452 lists a $1,000 donation to Dean by Greenberg Traurig lobbyist Ronald Platt, a member of the Post's A Team, on June 30, 2003. At that time, lobbyist disclosure forms show Platt as working with Abramoff on two of the controversial tribal accounts: the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, and the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana . The forms show that Platt worked on a third controversial tribal account, the Sandia Pueblo, with other A Team members but not Abramoff.

Hugo Chavez, another dictator "elected" and now enamored of Venezuela's oil wealth, is very angry at Condoleezza Rice. He warns her not to mess with him although one wonders what "mess" means and what ol' Hugo plans to do about it.

We can thank Jimmy Carter, who never met a despot or dictator he didn't love, for verifying this guy's election. Once they get power, these thugs, they don't want to leave. I agree with Condi, such people are impediments to democracy.

You think?

From Captains Quarters:

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched a new verbal attack against US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, bluntly warning her "don't mess with me, girl."

Responding to remarks before the US Congress last week in which Rice called Chavez a "challenge to democracy" in Latin America, Chavez warned the top US diplomat to back off.

"She messed with me again," he said in his weekly "Hello President" television show, deliberately mangling her name as "Condolences." "Don't mess with me, girl."

Last week, after her US Congress testimony, Chavez dismissed Rice as "the imperial lady."

Goodness one would think the British would be burning cars all over the place over the comments by London's Mayor Ken Livingstone. Who browbeat a Jewish reporter with accusations of being a concentration camp guard and worse.

The Mayor was suspended. He should be "fired" although I suppose he was elected. Such inflammatory accusations are totally not necessary.