I have also shaken hands with him.

I think even Hank Hill would agree he has a good firm handshake, and you can tell a lot about a man or woman from his handshake

I know you and I have butted-heads sometimes on DU2, but I'm perfectly happy to put in the past. I used to have a Dean shirt with a medicine bottle on it and Howard Dean, just what the doctor ordered. Please subscribe and contribute!

My favorite thing to do was wear my Dean tee shirts to concerts at Red Rocks Amphitheater during the summers of 2003 and 2004. You simply wouldn't believe how many people came up to talk to me about him. It was wonderful - that beautiful scenery, the fresh air, the concert atmosphere.

The best evening was when a group of people from Iowa came up to me. They were, of course. thinking ahead to their caucuses. They were truly interested in the issues and wanted to know Dean's positions on various things. That was the night that sold me on activism, on the fact that it can work.

I think your experience is true for a lot of people. I'm going to nickname this the "Activist Political Inspiration Group" or APIG, I believe it can fly

Dean really burst the establishment Democratic bubble and from then on there was little doubt that the Democratic party from the DNC to the local club to the first time GOTV canvass volunteer was going to be a lot more active.

In a later interview, he said that he only had about a thousand donor/supporters in 2002. So I am part of a special group. Or was

last year( Democracy Now was headquartered in the building I was volunteering in.)

Howard is fun to meet - I actually good him to stop and shake my hand amidst a gaggle of people because I shouted softly that I had volunteered for him

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think a well organized operation was tasked with preventing him from winning the nomination.

Please count me among the DU DFA supporters!

I definitely think the opposing campaign operatives pounced on it with the media.