I really am beginning to like Howard Dean...he can't possibly be accomplishing anything for the Democrat Party, because he spends all of his time trying to explain that he didn't really mean what he said, or it was taken out of context or that you may have heard what you thought he said, but what you heard was not what he meant....

Anyway, today we find Howard trying to explain what he meant when he said, while discussing the hardships of working all day and then going to vote, that it's easier for Republicans. Why is it easier for Republicans? Because "Republicans, I guess, can do that because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives." Like Republicans Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton, for instance...

Now his explanation for this is that in context, "The point I was making is clear: Republican policies have declared war on hardworking Americans." Well, if that's the point he was trying to make, and it is as "clear" as he says, why didn't anybody understand that to be what he was saying?

My reading of that statement is that, "if you are a registered Republican, there is a good chance that you are a crook, or at least a leech on society." If that's what he believes, why doesn't he stand by his statement? After all, he is the "face" of the Democrats, the head of the DNC. And if that's NOT what he meant, then Democrats had better recognize that this guy is going to alienate the right AND the left if he keeps shooting his mouth off without thinking about what he is saying.

But if that's what they want their "leader" to do, that's fine with me...like I said, I'm starting to like Ole Howard.