Do you know what Dean's Flag stance is?
Joe Conanson put it this way:
Joe Conason wrote in his journal (Salon.com):
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/11/14/friday/index_np.html (free day pass by saying ok to advertisement)
Dean's cute flag flap
Several readers distressed by Wesley Clark's remarks supporting the flag desecration amendment wrote in to declare that they had dropped their support of the retired general in favor of Howard Dean. But others pointed out what I didn't know about Dean's own record on this issue. Two years ago, as governor of Vermont, he brokered a legislative resolution that urged Congress to "take whatever legislative action it deems necessary and appropriate to honor and safeguard the United States Flag." While a bit vague, that sounded much like an endorsement of the Constitutional amendment.
Around that time, Dean rather pompously declared that politicians should declare their positions on the flag issue before voters went to the polls in 2002. That requirement didn't apply to Dean himself, as he "coyly" told the Rutland Herald, because he wasn't on the ballot that year. So now that he is running for president, the candidate who prides himself in speaking bluntly should explain the limits of his support for the First Amendment -- in plain English. <8:22 a.m. PST, Nov. 14, 2003> Article links first night:
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=crowley111303brokered:
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2002/journal/SJ010116.htm (actual Journal of Vermont Senate spelling out the law adopted with Howard Dean's signature - go down 1/2 way thru minutes)
coyly:
http://rutlandherald.com/hdean/38411 Article about the Flag anti consecration law signed into law in Vermont - 2001