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9. Got completely shredded to bits on the military when he could not remember the strength of our armed forces, could not say how much he wanted to increase the Afghanistan forces, got flat footed on his statement about ours will not always be the strongest military. Came across as completely unworthy of being a steward of our armed forces.

I was completely floored with Dean on this issue. When asked how many people we had in our active military, he said between one million to two million. He said this several times. I wish I had this generous range when taking all my math classes in college. Q: What is 100 X 15,000?? A: Between one million and two million?

Another thing was Dean thought was that we didn't have enough forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. He wants to double that with NATO, UN or USA. Wouldn't that be termed more as an occupation by a foreign nation? Also, this is a complete reversal for someone who started out the interview as saying President Bush should have used more diplomacy instead of military might. Come on Dean! Which is it gonna be?

Tim Russert, neo-con?

Nope, just thinning the herd, and preserving intellectual purity for the party line. Howard Dean was straying from the electable portion of the spectrum, and the "skeletons-in-the-closet file" maintained on him by the gnomes of the Democrat(ic) Leadership Council were being trotted out as a warning for him to either ease off on certain positions, or get out of the Democrat race.

Old habits die hard for the powers behind the DLC. (Read: the venomous viper of a spouse to the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001".) Remember, Herself had access to (and has almost certainly retained copies of) some 900 FBI files. The full record of those who had access was never documented anywhere.