{"id":1295,"date":"2004-01-23T13:34:20","date_gmt":"2004-01-23T13:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2004-01-23T13:34:20","modified_gmt":"2004-01-23T13:34:20","slug":"deans-got-warts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2004\/01\/deans-got-warts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean&#8217;s got warts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And is want to scream his head off at speeches<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;I was having a great time,&#8221; he told ABC&#8217;s Diane Sawyer on Primetime Thursday. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/01\/23\/dean.interview\/index.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">I am not a perfect person, believe me, I have all kinds of warts. I wear cheap suits sometimes, I say things that I probably ought not to say, but I lead with my heart, and that&#8217;s what I was doing right there, leading with my heart<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dean said he was trying to raise the spirits of more than 3,000 disappointed volunteers who had worked so hard for his campaign in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the wild-eyed, fist-pumping speech could hurt his chances to emerge as the Democrat&#8217;s choice as their candidate for president, the former Vermont governor admitted it could.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But there&#8217;s nothing I can do about it. I did it. I own it. And now we have to get back to running for president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Was it over the top? Sure, it was over the top. Do I do things that are a little nutty? Sure, I do things that are a little nutty. But the truth is, I was having a great time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not apologetic because I was giving everything to people who gave everything to me.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via MedicMike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And is want to scream his head off at speeches &#8220;I was having a great time,&#8221; he told ABC&#8217;s Diane Sawyer on Primetime Thursday. &#8220;I am not a perfect person, believe me, I have all kinds of warts. I wear cheap suits sometimes, I say things that I probably ought not to say, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}