Joshua Micah Marshall (TPM) Sees Dean...and Likes

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Tue Nov-18-03 10:44 AM
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Joshua Micah Marshall (TPM) Sees Dean...and Likes

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After dinner this evening I stopped by a fundraiser for Howard Dean in Washington, DC --- one to celebrate his 55th birthday. It wasn’t the first time I’d seen him in person. But it was the first time I’d seen him speak to a campaign rally. And the event was very impressive. (....)

There were also endorsements from Congressmen Elijah Cummings and Jim Moran, which covers a lot of territory (in every respect but geographically) in the Democratic party. (....)

Marshall does excellent blogging on the Iraq obfuscations, in particular. He is officially uncommitted in the Democratic Party nomination contest but had been (and may still be -- I don't know) favorably disposed to Clark.

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Tue Nov-18-03 01:02 PM
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1. Another interpretation:

In any case, after the speech, I wanted to ask Dean a few questions about Iraq and the recent turnabout in White House policy. But the place was raucous and crowded. And Dean was wielding this big metal utensil, cutting people pieces of his enormous birthday cake. So I eventually thought better of it.

Perhaps the implication here is that JMM was going to ask Dean if he thought a reversal by Bush on Iraq would remove Dean's biggest justification for why Dean should be president. Because Dean was holding a big metal utensil, JMM decided not to ask the hard question.

I packed up my pen and notebook and slowly made my way to the door through the sardine-packed crowd of Dean-o-philes.

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Tue Nov-18-03 01:11 PM
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2. Yeah, I think it would be difficult to say that he "liked" it.

He said he was impressed by the scene. Energetic groups are always impressive, but do not mean the observer "likes".

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