Dean announces he's a metrosexual

[Karmadillo]

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~64~1729382,00.html

Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean tried to be all things, except George W. Bush, to all voters on fundraising stops in Boulder and Denver on Tuesday.

The pack-leading Democrat hit all the marks, courting fiscal conservatives and social liberals. He bashed the war and pumped up his plans for universal heath care, renewable energy and investments in schools, highways and broadband Internet for everyone.

Dean declared himself a "metrosexual," the buzz phrase for straight men in touch with their feminine sides, as he touted his accomplishments in "equal justice" for gay and lesbian couples.

But then he waffled.

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[Hep]

1. Oh no!

He's not familiar with the term metrosexual and said it based on what others told him?

GASP!

I simply can't vote for a guy who doesn't take time off from his campaign to watch South Park.

[TLM]

13. Dean was kidding around, read the next paragraph.

He's talking about how square he is...


"Dean declared himself a "metrosexual," the buzz phrase for straight men in touch with their feminine sides, as he touted his accomplishments in "equal justice" for gay and lesbian couples.

But then he waffled.

"I'm a square," Dean declared, after professing his metrosexuality to a Boulder breakfast audience with an anecdote about being called handsome by a gay man. "I like (rapper) Wyclef Jean and everybody thinks I'm very hip, but I am really a square, as my kids will tell you. I don't even get to watch television. I've heard the term (metrosexual), but I don't know what it means."

At a luncheon in Denver, Dean surged past the issues and got down to more immediate business, spelling out the main reason for his fourth Colorado visit in the past year.

[Hep]

26. I was kidding!

Just being facetious! I get tired of using those rolly eyes,

[TexasPatriot]

28. some statements

make for really bad attack ads...

roveco will have a field day playing the 'girlyman' angle with Arnold doing the voiceover...

dumb.
fire the writer and move on.

[Fescue4u]

2. Lmao...A "Metrosexual"??!!

For a moment I thought it was someone who made love to cars.

What a silly term, but hey..what a person does in the privacy of their own garage is none of my concern ;)

[wyldwolf]

3. I watch "Sex and The City."

Am I metrosexual?

[Padraig18]

4. A very positive article.

But you have to read the part where you type 'more...' to find it. :P

[RogueTrooper]

10. Indeed Padraig

The last paragraph...
"Denver pollster and political analyst Floyd Ciruli said Dean has a Bill Clinton appeal: a dynamic small-state governor who comes across as a Washington outsider."

[Padraig18]

21. yep!

:thumbsup:

[GeekLife]

5. Crab People!

Crab People! Crab People!

"We're Here, We're not queer, but we're close, so get used to it!"

[Loonman]

8. Taste like crabs

Talk like people!

[GeekLife]

16. Metrophobe

After the SP episode I googled Metrophobe to see what would come up. Its actually a phobia!

It is a fear of poetry.

[VermontDem2004]

6. It's a funny story

Dean isn't perfect but who is? :shrug: I didn't know what the phrase "metrosexual" meant.

[sangh0]

22. Do you describe yourself using words you don't understand?

Dean does

[RetroLounge]

31. Ooooh, Bad Dean Bad Dean Bad Dean

You guys are getting Sooooo pathetic.

[number six]

7. Good God Man. Big Rule of Politics

Never quote anything in a campaign that only people in style magazines talk about. The Right'll have a field day.

[Cat Atomic]

9. Dean is lying.

He wears pleated slacks. They're atrocious. :P

LET'S MOTOR!

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

11. If he did, he's an idiot

Dean is saying that he is narcissictic and in love with himself, and uses a lot of beauty products? An insult to most Americans and the LGBT community specifically.

[TLM]

15. Read the rest of it.... he was joking around.

[VermontDem2004]

20. Of course

Dean bashers on the issue of Howard Dean can't take a joke, I personally found the story funny.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

27. sorry I hate that word

I guess you had to be there :)

[Brian Sweat]

12. Does that mean he likes to have sex in large cities?

[TLM]

14. No, with trains.

[Fenris]

19. Or buses

[Atlant]

29. Worse yet, *FRENCH* Trains! Merde! (NT)

[Karmadillo]

30. The Dems are truly doomed. Kerry looks French, Dean romances

the Paris subway, and we sure can't count on Jean Edwards to turn things around for us.

[tishaLA]

37. That's Jean-Jacques Eduards, merci beaucoup!

[Fenris]

17. Nope, he's a square

Pleated slacks, Brooks Brothers 2-button suits, Men's Warehouse ties, that haircut...the man's a square. And he admits to it!

"I'm a square," Dean declared, after professing his metrosexuality to a Boulder breakfast audience with an anecdote about being called handsome by a gay man. "I like (rapper) Wyclef Jean and everybody thinks I'm very hip, but I am really a square, as my kids will tell you. I don't even get to watch television. I've heard the term (metrosexual), but I don't know what it means."

On a side note, for those of you who saw the actual website article, it is nice to see that Pets.com dog is getting work.

[killbotfactory]

18. In response Kerry declares he's "twice the metrosexual Dean is"...

And that he looked fabulous while he served in Vietnam.

[Rose Siding]

23. And Gep reveals the in '95

Dean swore he WASN'T a metro!

[GeekLife]

24. Kerry also declared

himself to be a quarter Bi. His grandfather was half bi, that makes him a quarter bi.

[Padraig18]

25. Question:

Did he say that before or after he leapt from the ice rink (where he was playing hockey) to dash into a blazing, abandoned warehouse to rescue some trapped kittens? :P

[killbotfactory]

32. After:

And you forgot the part where he hanglided off the burning building to safety after climbing to the top with a broken arm and blindfolded.

[RetroLounge]

33. No one can stop Dean now!

except maybe the Mecha-Robert Smith from the Cure...

"Dude, Disintigration was the best album ever!"

[Deja Q]

34. "Metrosexual"? That is so gay...

I've heard the term recently, and why (a) came up with it, who (b) decided to hype it into the mainstream, and why (c) is the mainstream happily buying into it?

Not to forget when (d) the reich-wing "christians" declare metrosexuality to be a sin?!

[number six]

35. Y'know in France

they have a governing body (l'acadamie francaise? i'm not sure) that decides which words are allowed in the language and which aren't. That's beginning to seem like a good idea. Metrosexual. What a dumb, dumb idea.

[Character Assassin]

38. Indicative of their weakness.

they have a governing body (l'acadamie francaise? i'm not sure) that decides which words are allowed in the language and which aren't.

Indeed they do. Yet another feather in the cap of French national retardation.

[number six]

40. They're a touchy bunch, the French

If you don't use a language it dies. No amount of legislation can change that.

[Il_Coniglietto]

36. Aren't Metrosexuals more the David Beckham type?

I've always heard people refer to him in that way. Don't really see Dean like that though it's good he was kidding. Wouldn't be too good to admit to being something if you don't know what it is!

[slackmaster]

39. Once again life imitates The Onion

:shrug:

[onehandle]

41. This event is not heartland material...

Walk away from this discussion, Howard.