Dean News
Howard Dean's son tried to steal booze from a country club in Vermont, we learned today. Dean cancelled campaign plans for the weekend and went home instead. He will still make his formal announcement that he's running for president on Monday. The speech is at 1:00 and I expect it will be on C-SPAN at least, maybe even CNN et al. The Dean for America web site has details on the announcement, rallies, and everything else you may want to know about Howard Dean.
Initially I was skeptical of Dean's candidacy, but I must say that he is growing on me as I see and hear more of him. I thought John Edwards would be the candidate with the best chance of knocking off Bush, and I've liked Edwards for a while, but he doesn't seem to have as much dynamism to him as Dean right now (though Bill Saletan's Slate article shows Edwards may be turning more aggressive). Dean had an impressive win in the Wisconsin straw poll last week, while a poll taken this week showed him behind Kerry in New Hampshire by 12 points. The Matt Bai piece in the NYT Magazine a few weeks back painted Dean as more of a long-shot, though that doesn't square with the strong rhetoric I've seen from him on TV, nor the real outpouring of support I've seen for him on the web.
Maybe I'll go to the Boston rally for the Dean announcement on Monday and see what vibe I get. I'm actually annoyed Dean has cancelled the Meet the Press interview he was planning to give this weekend so he can go home to deal with family issues--that would've been a good chance to see what he's made of under cross-examination by Russert.
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Dean isn't Bush light. Going to medical school and becoming a doctor may show what he is made of. He reminds me of FDR. Both came from rich families but wanted to help many people who were not born with a silver spoon in their mouth.
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