Reply #93: So Dean is so special that no one is allowed to question him?

[DemBones DemBones]

No one is allowed to show that his record shows some disturbing things about him?

Dean supporters got angry at Kucinich for saying in the AFL-CIO debates that Dean had supported raising the Social Security age to 68 or 70. Later in the debate, Dean denied what Kucinich said -- said he never said it. The next day he issued a statement that he'd "misspoke" when he said that.

The AFL-CIO debate was on August 5, 2003.

On June 22, 2003, Dean told Tim Russert that he would (1)"entertain" or (2)"look at" raising the retirement age to 68, after admitting that he previously supported raising it to 70. Russert's source for the latter position was a 1995 article so the spin by the Deanies was "It was eight years ago," sounding much like the "It was only sixteen words" defense of Dubya's "misspeaking" about supposed evidence of Saddam buying uranium. This, of course, overlooks the fact that he did say it and that in the same interview, he TWICE suggested he might raise the retirement age to 68, though he said he no longer supported raising it to 70.

But the Deanies completely ignored Dean's denials on August 5 of what he had said on June 22. Do you suppose he completely forgot what he said while being grilled by Tim Russert on national television? :eyes: