Howard Dean Socialist?

I mean, in my heart I knew it, but aaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhhh!

European Socialists eager to work with U.S. Democrats

Howard Dean, chairman of the national committee of the U.S. Democratic
Party, is attending the two-day conference together with the leaders of leftist
governments of several countries and party leaders from across Europe.

"We are not anti-American, we want the real America, your America," former
Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, president of the European Socialist
Party, said in remarks directed at Dean.

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Socrates said Dean's Democrats "should know that they can count on European
Socialists" for support.