Howard Dean wants us to believe that Van Jones is worthy as a green jobs Czar because he put his pen to paper and wrote a book.
Howard Dean wants us to believe that when Van Jones put his pen to paper to sign the Truther petition he did not know what he was writing his approval to.
I suppose when Van Jones proclaimed that he was a communist, he did not know what he was saying then.
I am pretty sure, though, that Howard Dean thinks that when Jones called Republicans "assholes" he should be taken at his word.