(His 1st mistake was thinking he'd be good for the job in the first place).
NewsMax.com reports:
The focus of the growing outrage was an awkward joke Dean told to the CBC: "You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had the hotel staff in here."
In a joint statement issued late Tuesday, former Rep. J.C. Watts and Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele said:
"We are simply outraged over recent racially insensitive remarks made by Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean. In his comments to the Democratic Black Caucus, Dean equates African-Americans who support Republicans to hired help.
"This kind of backward thinking reminds us of a horrible time in history when blacks were only seen as servants," Watts and Steele noted.
All through the process of choosing a DNC head, I heard how "intelligent" Howard Dean supposedly is. But how intelligent is it to make such racially charged and clearly partisan and divisive remarks only days after receiving the job which calls for changing the perception that the Democrats are the party obstruction.
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