Deans Say Temper Not a Problem

Los Angeles Daily News (from New York Times) ^ | 01-23-2004 | Jodi Wilgoren

[boris]

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Howard Dean said he is just another hockey dad. His wife of 23 years, Judith Steinberg Dean, said she cannot remember the last time he lost his temper. She said he's "a good dancer." He said "she's a lot smarter than I am."

Nestled on a formal sofa in a quaint Vermont inn, the couple appeared in their first nationally televised interview Thursday in an effort to save Dean's embattled presidential campaign by reassuring the public that his emotional outburst after a disappointing third-place finish in Iowa's caucuses was an anomaly. As Diane Sawyer of ABC News aired the screech heard around the political world for the umpteenth time, Judith Dean looked lovingly at her husband, and giggled.

"He just doesn't get that angry," Judith Dean, 50, told Sawyer in the segment scheduled for broadcast on "Primetime Thursday." "I mean, he doesn't. You know, he just, he's very kind, very considerate, and, it just doesn't happen." Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont, acknowledged on the program that his performance Monday night was not "presidential," but shrugged it off as a passionate response to his fervent supporters. "Last night, I went to a hockey game, my son got an assist on the first goal, I went `Yahoo,' and jumped up in the air," Dean told Sawyer. "That's presidential? Probably not. So, I'm a dad, I'm a human being, I'm going to keep being a dad and a human being."

[snip]

"That's what I like to do," she told Sawyer, who had asked about the seemingly unromantic gift of a rhododendron bush her husband had given her for her 50th birthday. "I'm not a very thing person. I mean, I have things I want." In scheduling the interview immediately after the candidates' final debate before next Tuesday's primary here, aides hoped to exploit the national fascination with Howard Dean's speech Monday to show their man's softer side. "Look, I'm not a perfect person, I've got plenty of warts," he said earlier Thursday at one of a pair of town hall meetings, where he received numerous ovations. "I say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think, and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular, but that ordinary people know are right. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head."

[evets]

YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

[Always Right]

I DO NOT HAVE A TEMPER PROBLEM! NOT IN NEW YORK! OR CALIFORNIA! OR MICHIGAN!..... WEHHEHHWEEAAAAAAAAAAA!

[theDentist]

"I'm not angry", says Dean.

"Some say you are, and have a short fuse," counters Sawyer.

"Who says that? Who? WHO!!?"

[raybbr]

Is this what the search for a president has come to? We now have to listen to this drivel for the next 8 months. No wonder people don't vote. After two years of campaigning I can't stand to listen to any of them anymore, including the republicans.

[camle]

nope. i don't have a temper problem. not at all. i'm a cool, calm reasonble sort of guy. I carry these two marbles in my hand to calm down.

the problem is who ate the strawberries... the strawberries!

[deangonemad]

Dean Iowa speech remixes..I Like the Revolution one(Beatles) these are funny..immigrant song is good too)

[plain talk]

First, soccer mom's. Now hockey dad's. Almost Clintonian sounding.

[Arrowhead1952]

The only reason he has a temper, is he gets ticked off at all the men gawking at his beautiful wife. </ sarcasm>

[TheBigB]

"I am a perfectly normal man who loses his temper on occasion, but I certainly don't have a problem. And if anyone says I do, I'll tear their f****** heads off and p*** down their necks. Okay, then?"

[Consort]

He needs to join Caterwaul Anonymous.

[JustPlainJoe]

His wife of 23 years, Judith Steinberg Dean, said she cannot remember the last time he lost his temper. She said he's "a good dancer." He said "she's a lot smarter than I am." (he probably beat that into her)


This reminds me of the old SNL skit with John Belushi playing Woody Hayes, who also denys having a temper while playing checkers with his wife. She jumps him and he turns red and plows her in the face!

[joesnuffy]

One thing is for sure...Dean could be as good a pres as was Willam Jefferson Blythe Clintler

[buffyt]

My favorite one was...
http://home.comcast.net/~cozdemir226/deanenemy.mp3
FUNNEEEE STUFF !!!!!!!!!

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Apparently, Judith Dean is so busy with her practice that she hasn't been able to watch any television news. If she did she would remember, if not the last time he lost his temper, one of the last times he did so.

I find it interesting that an elderly gentlemen suggested that Howard Dean be more civil. Dean's reaction? To order him to sit down and shut up.

One of our greatest generals from the Second World War was George S. Patton. General Patton's career almost came to an end because he slapped a soldier suffering from battle fatigue. Eisenhower rightly, temporarily relieved Patton of command over that incident. The adult voters in the Democrat caucuses in Iowa rightly removed Dean from command over his abuse of an Iowa voter.