[Mb-civic] Return of the Angry Man - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Return of the Angry Man
He might have simply disappeared after the Scream ended his presidential 
hopes. But as head of the Democratic Party, Howard Dean is still going 
to go to New Hampshire. And South Carolina. And Oklahoma ...

By Sally Jenkins

Sunday, July 3, 2005; Page W08

At some point in the next five minutes, Howard Dean is going to say 
something that somebody won't like. He will say it in words chesty and 
rough, with a voice that is raked out of the bottom of his throat. He 
might call Republicans "plunderers," or he might call them "brain-dead." 
Whatever he says, the sound of a politician speaking his actual mind 
will cause his admirers and detractors alike to react as if they just 
heard an explosion. The chatter fills the air like scattering flocks of 
jackdaws: Check me on this, but did Howard Dean just call half the 
country stupid?

Dean could stop saying these things -- but he won't. "Most of that 
stuff, I don't regret," he says. It's mid-May, and the highly charged 
chairman of the Democratic National Committee, a man described by his 
own brother as "radioactive," sits in a room at the Park Plaza Hotel in 
Boston, tilted backward in a chair. A crowded itinerary has taken him 
from a union hall in Oklahoma City to a fundraiser in the Back Bay in 
the space of a day, and he has been talking the whole way. "Of course, 
I'm not always right," he says. "And I almost never take a poll before I 
speak."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/28/AR2005062801074.html?nav=hcmodule
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