Dean's head-explosion was a masterful piece of political slander and manipulation, acheived by filtering out the background context noise levels, so it sounded like he was screaming mad, instead of just screaming. From this single deft piece of falsification the right-enders managed to take out their most dangerous opponent, in their usual ruthless manner, by lying about him. But make no mistake about his competency as a manager. The State of Vermont understood that and elected him on his record.

Therefore, I suggest there is something to Bobert's analysis -- at least as a promising possibility. Compared to the current tyrannical crony-clan in place, almost anything would be an improvement; I would like to see a wide-range cleanup of falsehoods told, crimes and evasions committed, and distortions fobbed on the public out of self-serving convenience on the part of Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfield and a few others. They are palpably gangsteroid and about as "American" as a Sicilian bullyboy gang.

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