{"id":1972,"date":"2004-01-20T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2004-01-20T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/01\/20\/deans-primal-scream-spells-doom\/"},"modified":"2004-01-20T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2004-01-20T13:00:05","slug":"deans-primal-scream-spells-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/20\/deans-primal-scream-spells-doom\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean&#8217;s Primal Scream Spells Doom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2351'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"430\">\n<p><strong><font size=\"+1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/deen.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"351\"><\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The switch went off in the Dowbrigade&#8217;s mind just about when<br \/>\n        Howard Dean let loose with his primal scream, after screeching out the<br \/>\n        names of all of the states he was expecting to win. There was a fevered, ferrel gleam in his eye. At that moment, we were not sure we would want him as the coach of our kid&#8217;s youth soccer team, let alone the free world. Stick a fork in him,<br \/>\n        we thought, he&#8217;s done. <\/p>\n<p>We never really warmed to the Doctor, although<br \/>\n        we continue to believe his campaign is the most innovative of the lot,<br \/>\n        and a harbringer of what&#8217;s to come in American politics. But the<br \/>\n        guy is just too tightly wound, and gives us the uneasy feeling that he<br \/>\n        could explode at any moment. Of course, the race is far from over, and the Dowbrigade has been wrong before.<\/p>\n<p>        That unsightly gush of raw aggression and emotion last night was just<br \/>\n        too over the top for mainstream America, more accustomed to circumspect<br \/>\n        smugness or Patrician pandering than to wild-eyed war cries. Throwing<br \/>\n        gasoline on the fire this morning the press was full of reports that<br \/>\n        Dean has suffered in the past from Panic Attacks, and worse, has sought<br \/>\n        and received mental health treatment for them. As Thomas Eagleton can<br \/>\n        testify, Americans recoil at the juxtaposition of President of the United<br \/>\n        States and Mental Health Problems, as well they might. <\/p>\n<p>        So goodnight Doctor Dean, get some rest and learn to chill out a bit.<br \/>\n        And the rest of you Deanies better start thinking about finding a candidate<br \/>\n      who really does &#8220;Get It&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The switch went off in the Dowbrigade&#8217;s mind just about when Howard Dean let loose with his primal scream, after screeching out the names of all of the states he was expecting to win. There was a fevered, ferrel gleam &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/20\/deans-primal-scream-spells-doom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}