Howard Dean Unplugged

Dean Offers Glimpse Into Life on the Campaign Trail

By Mark Z. Barabak, Times Staff Writer

BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Howard Dean's presidential run has been a rocket ride, a flight that has sent him higher, faster than even he expected. So what was the low point?

It came one night last summer, after the umpteenth campaign road trip, when he dragged himself home at 2 a.m., then turned around and left three hours later without ever seeing his family. "That was the pits," he said.

Dean shared that domestic disappointment and other thoughts, musing on everything from a balanced budget to the art of napping, in a session this week with reporters packed elbow-to-elbow aboard his campaign charter, flying high over the Southwest desert.

Call it Howard Dean unplugged.

Or at least a bit less tightly wrapped.

continue

where the heck did they get that "angry" stuff from !