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Howard Dean: Magnanimous and Petty, With a Side of Bonkers

So Howard Dean is playing emcee at the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting today, in an attempt to figure out whether to break their own rules in order to hand illegitimate delegates to a candidate who can't win even if she gets them.

Talk about political intrigue.

The ever-lofty Dr. Dean kicked off the proceedings with a little speech pooh-poohing the "cynics" who will watch this process and see only conflict.  Those who can't see the beauty and harmony in the process of bickering over the party's self-made quandary make Dean's heart heavy, it turns out.  Conflict and pettiness have no place in the process, we're assured.

Dean then went on to "tell a short story" which was wonderfully on point.  The story was about himself "ranting" for "about 20 minutes" to Al Gore 4 years ago (not clear if it was before or after the Scream-led downfall) and making breath-holding, foot-stomping, Napoleonic threats to desert the party if he didn't start getting his due respect.

This man of such rare depth and maturity then took another tangent, moaning about the fact that Al Gore "had the election snatched from him by 5 intellectually bankrupt Supreme Court Judges who did the wrong thing."

He then went on to accuse the media and members of his own party of making "blatantly sexist" and "blatantly racist" remarks in their efforts to advance their candidates.

Sadly, it appears I'mve become a cynic.  Because I'm watching this beautiful process and seeing only conflict (even before the arguments begin).

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Howard Dean: Magnanimous and Petty, With a Side of Bonkers

So Howard Dean is playing emcee at the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting today, in an attempt to figure out whether to break their own rules in order to hand illegitimate delegates to a candidate who can't win even if she gets them.

Talk about political intrigue.

The ever-lofty Dr. Dean kicked off the proceedings with a little speech pooh-poohing the "cynics" who will watch this process and see only conflict.  Those who can't see the beauty and harmony in the process of bickering over the party's self-made quandary make Dean's heart heavy, it turns out.  Conflict and pettiness have no place in the process, we're assured.

Dean then went on to "tell a short story" which was wonderfully on point.  The story was about himself "ranting" for "about 20 minutes" to Al Gore 4 years ago (not clear if it was before or after the Scream-led downfall) and making breath-holding, foot-stomping, Napoleonic threats to desert the party if he didn't start getting his due respect.

This man of such rare depth and maturity then took another tangent, moaning about the fact that Al Gore "had the election snatched from him by 5 intellectually bankrupt Supreme Court Judges who did the wrong thing."

He then went on to accuse the media and members of his own party of making "blatantly sexist" and "blatantly racist" remarks in their efforts to advance their candidates.

Sadly, it appears I'mve become a cynic.  Because I'm watching this beautiful process and seeing only conflict (even before the arguments begin).