{"id":1667,"date":"2003-08-28T08:33:40","date_gmt":"2003-08-28T22:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/28\/howard-dean-rock-star\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:18:12","slug":"howard-dean-rock-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/28\/howard-dean-rock-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Dean, rock star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13619,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/21361.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13620,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/21361.com\\\/Merchant2\\\/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=2&amp;Product_Code=2073&amp;Category_Code=CDs&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13621,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/21361.com\\\/Merchant2\\\/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=2&amp;Product_Code=2074&amp;Category_Code=CDs&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13622,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/djwudi.typepad.com\\\/eclecticism\\\/2003\\\/08\\\/flying_high.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050528153047\\\/http:\\\/\\\/djwudi.typepad.com:80\\\/eclecticism\\\/2003\\\/08\\\/flying_high.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 12:15:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 16:08:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 19:06:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 19:06:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The last time I got to see <a href=\"http:\/\/21361.com\/\" title=\"2-13-61\">Henry Rollins<\/a> do a spoken word performance, I picked up his most recent spoken word album, Talk is Cheap (<a href=\"http:\/\/21361.com\/Merchant2\/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=2&amp;Product_Code=2073&amp;Category_Code=CDs\" title=\"2-13-61: Talk is Cheap, Vol. 1\">Vol. 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/21361.com\/Merchant2\/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=2&amp;Product_Code=2074&amp;Category_Code=CDs\" title=\"2-13-61: Talk is Cheap, Vol. 2\">Vol. 2<\/a>). About halfway through the track titled &#8220;Getting Snippy With It&#8221;, there is a section that I keep thinking about whenever I see people getting really excited about Howard Dean, or when I see articles such as the Stranger article I linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/djwudi.typepad.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/flying_high.html\" title=\"Flying High\">earlier<\/a> describe him as a &#8220;rock star&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  And wouldn&#8217;t it be great, every country has the same problem, wouldn&#8217;t it be really bitchin&#8217; if you had a political leader who was running for the big office, if he or she &#8212; I don&#8217;t care, whoever has the best idea, I don&#8217;t care about the sex &#8212; where you could like them as much as you like your favorite musician? So instead of like, &#8220;Okay, time to vote,&#8221; you could be like, &#8220;Fuckin&#8217; A, this guy fuckin&#8217; <em>rocks<\/em>! This guy&#8217;s <em>awesome<\/em>!&#8221; It would be like if you were voting for Ozzy, or Bob Dylan, or someone really bitchin&#8217;, &#8220;This fuckin&#8217; guy is <em>so cool<\/em>, I can&#8217;t <em>wait<\/em> for this, it&#8217;s gonna be <em>bitchin&#8217;<\/em>!&#8221; I&#8217;d love to be stripped of my political cynicism for just <em>one time<\/em>, it would be so refreshing to be so into somebody and to trust them and know that they want to do the right thing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is exactly what&#8217;s going on, and this is exactly why people are gathering around Dean in such staggering numbers. I think that the wish that Henry expresses here is a wish that many of us have had for a long, long time, and Dean&#8217;s straightforwardness, charisma, energy, and fire have tapped into that.<\/p>\n<p>Bitchin&#8217; indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And wouldn&#8217;t it be great&hellip;wouldn&#8217;t it be really bitchin&#8217; if you had a political leader who was running for the big office&hellip;where you could like them as much as you like your favorite musician?<\/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-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","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=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}