A useful piece of scream therapy
Howard Dean may not have been such a terrible thing for his party after all
ACCORDING to T.S. Eliot, the world ends not with a bang but a whimper. Howard Dean's presidential campaign is ending not with a bang but with a scream followed by a succession of whimpers. Mr Dean is currently engaged in a convoluted debate with himself about whether he is going to quit the race if he fails to win Wisconsin. But the uncomfortable fact is that he has little more chance of winning the nomination than the great Dennis Kucinich, who is also still running, or even Wesley Clark, who dropped out this week after being trounced by John Kerry.
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