"I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials." --Howard Dean, refusing to pre-judge Osama bin Laden in December 2003
"I think [DeLay] is guilty...of taking trips paid for by lobbyists, and of campaign-finance violations during his manipulation of the Texas election process. I think Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston, where he can serve his jail sentence down there." --Howard Dean, rendering a guilty verdict against Tom DeLay this week
Dean's remarks were sufficiently offensive to draw the ire of even far-Left Demos like Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank: "I think Howard Dean was out of line talking about DeLay. The man has not been indicted. I don't like him. I disagree with some of what he does, but I don't think you, in a political speech, talk about a man as a criminal...."
Dean remains unrepentant, insisting, "There's corruption at the highest level of the Republican Party, and they're going to have to face up to that one of these days, because the law is closing in on Tom DeLay."
Actually, contradiction isn't the correct term. The word that most properly describes this behavior is hypocrisy. Keep it up, Howard. You're the engineer on a train that's barrelling out of control down the track toward the washed out trestle and, instead of applying the brakes, you're blowing the steam whistle and hollering out the window.
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