A kinder, gentler Howard Dean?

• Author: Dowd, Maureen
• Position: Perspectives - Brief Article - Column

Speaking hoarsely to an appreciative crowd [after placing third in the Iowa caucuses], Dean was doing his usual dancing on the head of the President, charging Bush with fighting the wrong war, appealing to the worst in Americans, dividing the country by fear, etc. But he looked a bit sheepish at his drop from larger than-life to smaller-than-life. He seemed lost without his manic eyebrow-arching anger and devilish smile, not sure how to proceed in a race where suddenly everyone was acting so nice, so measured, so blah. Asked by...