Howard Dean: The UnNader? It's a rare man whose real interest is the welfare of the people, even if there's not much personal gain. Maybe you are that man.

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Byline: Anna Quindlen

Thank you, Howard Dean. You were the right guy at the right time running for the wrong office. It wasn't just those ill-conceived comments that did you in, or even the parade-of-states scream in Iowa, that overplayed sound bite of a man who clearly had been running on adrenaline for far too long. It was more that there was about you the aura of a man who had wandered onstage at a play without knowing his part. The least surprising postmortem comment I read about your candidacy was in a Washington Post story. You were quoted as telling a colleague early on, "The problem is, I'm now afraid I might win."

As befits a physician, you brought this race to life. You galvanized the most disengaged group of voters in the...

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