Article: Dean's behavior on caucus night dizzying; Americans should be glad that the Iowa process helped display another side of the candidate

So do you think Howard Dean knew he had come in third when he went out and did his crazy caucus night cheer? Plain and simple, Dean's behavior in front of supporters - with the nation looking on - was bizarre.

Face plastered with a manic grin, Dean three times screamed out a litany of states he would win, and capped off his sound bite with a barbaric yawp that would have given Walt Whitman the willies.

A few weeks before the caucus, it seemed as if Dean began reading his own press clippings and started behaving as if he, as the front- runner, no longer needed to be cooperative or accessible. Before long the Dean camp was treating local reporters shabbily, and then came a round of Dean ...

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