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Am I the only one that thinks Dean's "YaaaarrrGargle" sounds like a Zerg Overlord from Starcraft?
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I assumed he was trying to yell YAAAAHHHH!! but his voice failed just after beginning the yell and it ended as a pirate call YEEE-AAAARRRRRR!!!
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I saw/heard it on live television right after the caucus. In context it really didn't seem that weird.
Then again, my friend and I were doing a conga line and chanting "caucus caucus caucus, caucus caucus caucus!" most of that afternoon and evening. So what do I know?
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Caucus is one of those funny words, isn't it?
It was a funny thing to hear, but I think the media has blown it all out of proportion. I mean, it was right after the first really big, meaningful election event, and after all that campaigning and stress, the guy probably had about ten gallons of adrenaline to burn off. I'm sure he was frustrated and pretty worked up.
Granted, I wouldn't want the President of the United States to let loose with that kind of yell at the wrong moment, but I'm sure they all have it in them.
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...Not to mention, it was largely a rally the troops sort of speech, after a disappointing finish in Iowa.
Somehow I doubt that he'd let one out in the middle of a State of the Union address (although woudn't it be great to have a State of the Union pool with odds on when it would come?? ).
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Caucus is a fun word, but it’s also a fun event. And when I think how hyped-up we were, just from attending, I can’t even imagine what it must feel like to be a candidate.
The combination of adrenaline, sleep-deprivation, and incipient laryngitis seems sufficient to excuse a weird noise of two.
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It's a pretty strange speech, but it doesn't seem quite so off-the-wall when you watch a video clip. If you only listen to him, he sounds kind of like a rock star.
Can you imagine Bush doing something similar? "We're going to Afghanistan! And Iraq! And then we're going to New York to take back the UN! YEAAHHH!"
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It wasn't only the weird yell, scream, thing, it was him listing off states with a bit too much energy and then expending the remaining enegry on his girlish scream.
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Nothing wrong with a little whoop of joy, but at the time my first reaction was embarrassment for the guy. It really was a strange sound to my ears, incongruous with the moment.
On the other hand, can you think of worse sounds he could have made?
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You did watch the speech? He doesn't appear to have gone insane at all. I know many people on this board who have done sillier things; I've been around when they've done some of them (quite recently). They certainly aren't insane.
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You should notice that many of our Presidents have had or at least shown many of the symptoms of mental illnesses of various kinds.
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Wait, that's the big scream (pun) everyone's been whining about?
Heh. It's strangled, but good lord. You really need to be reaching to use that against Dean. Rather sad that people can't find better excuses to condemn the man...
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See, that was just the sort of reason I really like Dean. He's the only candidate up there (except maybe Kucinich and Sharpton) who's not afraid to whoop when it's unpopular to do so. That's what it's going to take to beat Bush. You can't just give him all the issues that he's currently popular with - you have to go out and change minds.
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That's not what its going to take to beat bush. Instead we need someone who can garner the most number of votes across the country, someone who doesn't face realities and has even more connections than Cheney and Rove. Dean's too darned intelligent and honest to ever have a chance. Iowa proved that once and for all. I'm already laying in provisions for another four years of darkness.
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