Man, I just found a bunch of my old Howard Dean campaign stuff.

[Drunken Irishman]

I was going through the closet, trying to find room to hide Christmas gifts, and I found a box with DEAN written on it. I opened it up and found all my Dean campaign stuff. Buttons, a shirt, a sign, speeches, a photo of Howard and me. Then I got really depressed thinking back to the summer of '03 and how his campaign went from pretty much the bottom of the polls to the top. The summer of '03 was a great summer for me, not just because of his campaign, but other things going on in my life. And now it sucks thinking back to that time, how much hope I had for the future of this country because I was convinced Dean would win.

When Dean lost Iowa, I felt like someone had punched me in the gut. It was the first presidential campaign I really got involved in, as it would be the first presidential election I could legally vote in. Today, I've tried to recapture the hope I had back then and I can't. It's weird, because I'm far more indifferent to the primaries than I was in 2003. In fact, the 2003 primaries consumed my life. I worked locally for the Dean campaign and now I'm not excited. I don't know if it's because of the candidates running, or what, but I just am not as into as I was 4 years ago and that makes me even more depressed. Ugh.

[XemaSab]

1. I feel the same way...

:pals:

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Aww, great photo

:)