• Philolurker@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You don’t even have to go that far back. Howard Dean’s enthusiastic-but-awkward yell was such a non-issue, and it still ruined his whole campaign.

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      1 year ago

      And it wasn’t even that awkward! At least it wasn’t if you were there in the room, among the roaring crowd. But they took the isolated audio from a single microphone. And poof. That was the end of his campaign.

      • FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        I think that Dean could have recovered from it, if he just owned it. Hell, if he decided from that point to make it his own and use it to interrupt rude Republicans, that would have won him a lot of people.

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      1 year ago

      It was even more of a non issue than you think. The clip that went around had the audience noise removed to make it seem more awkward than it was.

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        1 year ago

        That creeps me out because of how religious and brainwashed it sounds. If I know nothing else about Carter, I would not vote for him based on that quote.

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          It would make me more likely, even though I’m an atheist. He was being honest with himself and honest to the public.

          It’s far better than some politician exclaiming how faithful and religious they are, then getting caught blowing the poolboy in a rented car.

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            1 year ago

            Honest with himself sure, but that doesn’t change that what he was being honest about was that he is brainwashed by the church.