Howard Dean is more than a little confused [View All]

I've been trying to figure out where Dean is coming from... it's baffling.

The stuff about compromise and how there's no point to outreach that raises hackles and all is stuff one could maybe argue about as a practical matter. It's the starting frame I can't get past...

"It is a real affront to those who lost their lives, including Muslims. That site doesn't belong to any religion."

The old Burlington Coat Factory doesn't belong to any religion? Or does he mean the neighborhood? Does having a church in a neighborhood mean the church "owns" that site? Is the site lower Manhattan... the Bowery... the financial district... Manhattan... New York City?

Is a Muslim community center really an "affront" to Muslims who lost their lives on 9/11?

Really?

(When you are on the radio rambling about how a Muslim community center is an affront to Muslims it suggests you haven't thought the thing through enough.)

I've listened to that answer several times and it keeps getting weirder.

All I can figure is that Dean thinks he is trying to show Dems up for election the "reasonable" way to finesse the issue. (And doing a poor job of it!)

His answer and op/ed are that kind of ultimate falling-into-a-black-hole stupid that only politics can generate.