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This guy just cannot stop with the stupidity. The scariest thing is that the liberals in this country are so out of touch with the rest of us (and reality itself) that they have this guy as a frontrunner.

NewsMax Report Prompts Dean-Bin Laden Retraction

Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean was
forced to retract comments yesterday where he warned
against prejudging the guilt of 9/11 terror mastermind
Osama bin Laden, prompted by NewsMax.com's coverage of the
story.

"As an American, I want to make sure he gets the death
penalty he deserves," Dean hastily told the Associated
Press, hours after NewsMax called attention to his bizarre
comments to the Concord Monitor, which posted its
interview with the leading Democrat earlier in the day.

In remarks that went unnoticed till late Friday, Dean had
told the New Hampshire paper, "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, prejudge jury
trials."

The news was further obscured by Monitor editors, whose
headline - "Dean's secure in his view of Saddam" - gave no
clue of the bombshell quote obtained by their reporter
Lisa Wangness.

Shortly after 5 p.m. Friday, NewsMax launched its own
report under the headline, "Dean Defends bin Laden" - the
first publicly available report highlighting the leading
Democrat's astonishing blooper.

"It took the former Vermont governor a few hours after the
story got picked up on the Internet and on wire services"
for Dean to react, the New York Daily News acknowledged in
Saturday editions.

By Friday night, Dean's tune had changed 180 degrees,
saying of bin Laden, "I share in the outrage of all
Americans . . . I just think this guy is outrageous."

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