The Revolution Will Not Be Televised — excerpt from Joe Trippi's book

[NYCGirl]

Great read!

Complete excerpt can be found at:

http://www.alternet.org/election04/19197/


When Howard Dean's bid for the presidency finally did its crash-and-burn (not in an Iowa corn field, as it turned out, but onstage in an Iowa ballroom), a cynical, middle-aged campaign consultant who thought he'd seen it all, who thought he knew it all, an old pro who'd made it his life's work to win elections at all costs, learned the most profound and unexpected lesson of his life.

This time, it wasn't about the candidate at all. It was about the people. This was never about him. It was about them.

An amazing thing happened in the presidential contest of 2004: For the first time in my life, maybe the first time in history, a candidate lost but his campaign won.

When Governor Dean stood in my office and admitted that even he hadn't expected to be thrust into the lead for the Democratic presidential nomination, he was saying what I'd known for months. That this was bigger than him. Certainly bigger than me. Bigger than the Democratic Party. Bigger even than determining who ran against George W. Bush in the general election.

[Cha]

1. I saw Joe Trippi on c-span Sunday morning

promoting this book and he was fantastic...he talked about his book and admitted his mistakes. He spoke very well of Dean and didn't let those freeper callers get away with one thing! I was cheering by the end of Trippi's stay on c-span.

I wrote down then..to get his book!

[proud patriot]

2. That made me cry

:-) I was one the many who had never worked
a campaign before who was inspired by Dean .

[NYCGirl]

3. Me too!

If just the foreward can do that to me, I can't wait to read the whole book!