Reply #34: "I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world." --Walt Whitman

[JaneQPublic]

Will Howard Dean live down the scream?

Did George W. live down choking on a pretzel?

Did Bill Clinton live down getting felated by an intern in the Oval Office?

Did George H.W. live down puking on a foreign head of state?

Did Ronald Reagan live down joking on a microphone he thought was off that he had started bombing Moscow?

Did Jimmy Carter live down telling a magazine interview that he "lusted in his heart"?

Did Gerald Ford live down hitting someone in the head with a golf ball?

The answer is that although the jokes continued, their political careers were not ended by the event. Indeed all of these men carried on to embarrass themselves another day.