Well, This Really Shouldn’t Be A Surprise

European socialists love the American Democratic party. And Howard Dean is returning that love by attending their international conference.

OPORTO, Portugal (Reuters) - European Socialists promised on Thursday to work to rebuild Europe's strategic alliance with the United States now that the Democrats control Congress after last month's elections.

Socialist leaders attending a meeting of the European Socialist Party pledged that with the Democrats on the rise, strong ties could be renewed with the United States after years of cool relations with Republican President George W. Bush.

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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(Portugese socialist prime minister Jose) Socrates said Dean's Democrats "should know that they can count on European Socialists" for support.

They recognize their fellow travelers, don't they? I don't really think that needs any further comment.