"The DNC chair's public remarks make some Democrats squeamish, but others say: Let Dean be Dean! Howard Dean's career as a politician often has been defined by his bluntness. Early in the 2004 Democratic primary season, Dean's candor and tough talk, especially on the Iraq war, endeared him to many Democrats even as others said he was too unpredictable to be electable. So it should be no surprise that Dean has employed his characteristic blunt-speak in his job as Democratic party chairman. But comments he made last week about Republicans have ignited a minor intra-party row -- And not for the first time in Dean's short tenure at the DNC.
The latest brouhaha came after Dean's comments on Thursday that "a lot of [Republicans] have never made an honest living in their lives." Later, Dean said he wasn't talking about hard-working Americans but Republican leaders. But over the weekend, the comment led two likely Democratic presidential candidates in 2008, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards and Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, to distance themselves from Dean and criticize him for shooting from the hip."-from the story on Salon today.
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