More from Raw Story about this issue. McCain tried to say that Dean did the same thing. Trouble is, though, that is just not true.
Howard Dean: McCain poses as a reformer and 'needs to obey the law'"Thirdly," Dean continued, "the thing that's most disturbing about all this is, when you're running for president of the United States, to defend yourself by saying 'he did it too' is not a defense. We want John McCain to obey the law. Otherwise, you may as well call it the Feingold Act, not the McCain-Feingold Act."
CNN's John Roberts pointed out that the McCain campaign is denying it used the matching funds as collateral for the loan. Roberts quoted a letter from Fidelity Bank's attorneys saying, "The bank does not now have, not did it ever receive from the committee, a security interest in any certification of matching funds."
"That's not the same thing as saying they didn't use it as collateral," Dean replied. "All you have to do is promise to get the public financing in order to use it as collateral. That's not the same thing as a security interest."
"Niggling around the edges is exactly what John McCain does," Dean concluded. "He says one thing and does something else. He's done it on earmarks. ... He poses as a politician who's not like that, and in fact he is like that. ... He needs to obey the law, particularly since he's posed as a reformer for all these years.
He says he is worried only slightly about a brokered convention, says we will most likely have a candidate in the next few weeks.
The DNC is going to send out daily emails about John McCain.
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