{"id":1378,"date":"2003-07-06T05:58:51","date_gmt":"2003-07-06T19:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/06\/about-howard-dean\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:34:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:34:35","slug":"about-howard-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/06\/about-howard-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"About Howard Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14269,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.georgiafordean.com\\\/archives\\\/000093.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20041021031628\\\/http:\\\/\\\/georgiafordean.com:80\\\/archives\\\/000093.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 19:53:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 19:53:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s an excellent overview of Howard Dean in today&#8217;s Washington Post. It&#8217;s been getting linked to on quite a few sites, with quite a few different pull quotes used, but here&#8217;s part that made me laugh:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  On a hot Sunday afternoon at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel in Los Angeles, the California Teachers Association was nearing the end of a two-day conference. More than 800 delegates sat in a ballroom with the stuffy, bottled-up feel of an airplane. They were ready to go home. But first, Dean was going to speak.<\/p>\n<p>  That in itself was unusual. The 333,000-member union, the largest in the state, is stingy with invitations to politicians. But Dean, the only current presidential candidate invited to speak to the association so far, had generated a buzz. Some union officials had heard Dean speak in April at the state Democratic convention in Sacramento, and they wanted to hear him again. Others, who hadn&#8217;t heard him, wanted to know what the fuss was about.<\/p>\n<p>  Dean came on like Beethoven, capturing the crowd with his first four notes.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;I taught eighth-grade social studies for three months,&#8221; he said, &#8220;so I can personally say that I am the only person running for the presidency of the United States that knows what it&#8217;s like to stand up without being able to go to the bathroom for five hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Bingo.<\/p>\n<p>  After 15 minutes, Dean told the audience he was going to wrap it up.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Awwww&#8221; pulsed through the ballroom.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;That&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve seen that ,&#8221; said Wayne Johnson, who was the union&#8217;s president until the end of June. &#8220;No one in all the years I&#8217;ve been with this organization, no speaker, has ever had that kind of reaction.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiafordean.com\/archives\/000093.html\" title=\"Breathing fire at Bush\">newsguyatl<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an excellent overview of Howard Dean in today&#8217;s Washington Post. It&#8217;s been getting linked to on quite a few sites, with quite a few different pull quotes used, but here&#8217;s part that made me laugh:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}