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June 4, 2005 9:51 AM

Separated at Birth? Bret Schundler and Howard Dean
posted by warbaby (14 comments total)

I love it! Look above Schundler's left elbow-- you can see Dean's thumb sticking out. This is even better than Magneto being the King of Spain.
posted by Faint of Butt at 9:54 AM on June 4, 2005

Surely while Schundler was using photoshop to update this website that he hand-built himself, he was twisting his mustache and cackling "muahahahaha."
posted by Stan Chin at 9:58 AM on June 4, 2005

If you look at his main page and mouse over the yellow "Forrester admits his plan.." window, you get to hear some original music Mr. Schundler composed too.
posted by DeepFriedTwinkies at 10:14 AM on June 4, 2005

I wonder if this is indicative of the problems politicians have getting young people to be involved in their causes. It was something Dean did great and it's not surprising that it might be easier for other politicians to steal a picture from Dean than, you know, actually excite young people.
posted by Staggering Jack at 10:34 AM on June 4, 2005

'Excite'? Isn't a chance to tour the birthplace of civilization (and kill people) enough to excite any young person?
posted by UseyurBrain at 10:53 AM on June 4, 2005

Strange that when you visit Schundler's site it plays the ominous Empire's theme from Star Wars in it's entirety with no explanation whatosever. The guy is either an idiot (likely based on his last campaign against McGreevey) or else the person who put of the site was having a bit of fun. Oh, well, at least he didn't try to put up a .wmv for "Deutschland über Alles".
posted by psmealey at 11:13 AM on June 4, 2005

psmealey - the Star Wars Music plays when you mouse over the image of Forrester on the upper right of Schundler's site.
posted by hockeyman at 11:54 AM on June 4, 2005

the problems politicians have getting young people to be involved in their causes

aren't that problematic if your young people, like Dean's, don't actually go out and vote in the primaries.
posted by NickDouglas at 2:23 PM on June 4, 2005

honestly, hockeyman, I didn't even notice that that was what triggered it... now that's good web page design!
posted by psmealey at 3:26 PM on June 4, 2005

I think the word we're looking for here is "busted".
posted by clevershark at 3:57 PM on June 4, 2005

Jeez. Too lazy even to find his own crowd of excited young people.
posted by interrobang at 5:26 PM on June 4, 2005

One photo was taken at a 2004 Dean for President rally sponsored by the American University College Democrats in Washington, D.C.

It was actually taken at the Sleepless Summer tour stop in Falls Church, VA in July 2003.

I went Schundlers's blog. I tried to post nothing but a link to "separated at birth" in a comment. The site returned the following error message:

"Please do not use profanity in your comments, please edit your comment."
posted by 3.2.3 at 6:00 PM on June 4, 2005

One photo was taken at a 2004 Dean for President rally sponsored by the American University College Democrats in Washington, D.C.

It was actually taken at the Sleepless Summer tour stop in Falls Church, VA in July 2003.

I went Schundlers's blog. I tried to post nothing but a link to "separated at birth" in a comment. The site returned the following error message:

"Please do not use profanity in your comments, please edit your comment."
posted by 3.2.3 at 6:00 PM on June 4, 2005

All attempts to link to other sites give that message.
posted by hipnerd at 2:05 AM on June 6, 2005