Dr. Howard Dean should have been Obama's first choice to have been Secretary of Health and Human Services. Period. End of the "argument".

Dr. Howard Dean, a graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, happens to know just a little bit about this subject. Dr. Dean, whose wife is still a practicing physician herself, was the first Governor of any of our 50 states to provide health-care to every child in his state. Dr. Dean set the example while all of the other career politicians just talked about it. He created the first national template in Vermont.

Dr. Howard Dean not only has a sharp intellect and sweeping knowledge of medicine, but also has unquestioned successful executive experience at providing health-care to the general population. His foresight and problem solving skills were not only recognized in Vermont, but he later took the national Democratic Party from its pathetic, cowardly and impoverished minority status to a rejuvenated, courageous and empowered majority status in 2006...against all odds. Dean's stunning political success as Chairman of the Democratic Party and his commitment to his then-ridiculed 50-state strategy set the tables for a second electoral sweep in 2008.

On the other hand, we have Mr. Tom Daschle. Tom Daschle is an embarrassment to our Democratic Party. He and his lobbying wife spent decades blurring the line between illegal bribery and just plain old unethical lobbying. In fact, Tom and Linda Daschle are the Democrats' mirror image of Phil and Wendy Gramm. Tom Daschle permitted more reactionary and right-wing legislation to pass under his "leadership" of the Senate when he was majority leader than what was passed under his GOP replacements, Trent Lott and Bill Frist. Patriot Act? Tom Daschle. Iraqi War Resolution? Daschle's list of "accomplishments" as Senate Majority Leader is a record of shame...if one is a Democrat and not a Republican.

Good God! Daschle is precisely the wrong prescription for Barack Obama's new administration. Daschle has spent the last years working as a lobbyist -- without the honesty of registering as a lobbyist -- for the very corrupt health-care executives who directly benefit from the current immoral situation where nearly 50 million Americans have no health-care whatsoever. And, typcial of Dashcle, he hid his tax fraud from Obama and worse, he wants to carry that ethics-challenged virus right into Obama's Cabinet.

Memo to Obama: Get rid of the Quack and hire the real Doctor. And do it now.

Here's a picture of what a great American Secretary of Health and Human Services would look like!