Let's Stop Excusing Dean's Gaffes. Shows Inexperience. Not Evil to Say So

[Raya]

As something of a Christmas special Dean told the Concord Monitor (Dec. 26) that he would not state his preference on a punishment for bin Laden before the al Qaeda leader was captured and put before a jury.
Statement, of course, followed by campaign correction, expansion and explanation.

Since then pundits have deamed it “weird,” “unbelievably dumb” and “worst political gaffe” of the year.

Yet, here at the DU, Dean’s explanations are cheered.

Why? Could someone tell me since when the Soviet Union was reconstituted as a major power, when the Old Testament book of Job was moved into the New Testament, and when international criminal tribunals started using a Jury of our peers?

As a matter of fact, the International Criminal Court excludes Jury Trials.

Dean’s comments re. Osama was simply a small-state Governor’s parochial musings. They were musings of a novice who should just avoid talking about issues outside his expertise. His various musings and subsequent corrections have showed such carelessness or incompetence that James Carville publicly wondered whether Dean has undergone a “political lobotomy.”

Let’s stop excusing Dean’s verbal gaffes and admit he is not ready for prime time.