Reply #86: Brian.. [View All]

please. Instead of jumping around the thread and writing knee-jerk responses to every post, just READ what we're saying.

You remind me of the Fran Lebowitz quote: "The opposite of speaking isn't listening. It's waiting to speak."

*I* have never said ONE word about Dean "pandering" on issues of religion. Not once. Ever.

THIS issue, narrowly defined by the original post, is how Dean prefaced his statements by saying he knows a lot about the Bible. Then he gets a very basic, elemental fact about it wrong.

If *I* said, "I know a lot about Howard Dean. He was born and raised in Vermont," you'd be all over me like white on rice for pretending to know something I didn't. Dean goofed. Will you at least admit that he was factually mistaken? And then will you admit that being factually mistaken on such a basic matter doesn't look good when a minute earlier you set yourself up as "knowing a lot" about the Bible?