Obviously we don't sense there is some discrepancy between what he said in the debate and what he says in his stump speech (i.e. missing context, no?) but people keep arguing there's nothing new or suprising about what Dean said.  

And to be fully honest, I do not remember the exact context of Dean's comment in that debate at this moment, I don't remember, for instance what the question was that raised the issue in the first place.