Dean courts wide spectrum
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
By
Joey Bunch, Denver Post Staff Writer
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.
"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."
The term "metrosexual" was recently parodied in Episode
708 "South Park Is Gay" of South Park on Comedy Central.
Episode clip is below...
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