Dean "straight talker"? Not about flag burning

From Joe Conason's Journal:

Two years ago, as governor of Vermont, [Dean] brokered a legislative resolution that urged Congress to "take whatever legislative action it deems necessary and appropriate to honor and safeguard the United States Flag." While a bit vague, that sounded much like an endorsement of the Constitutional amendment.

Around that time, Dean rather pompously declared that politicians should declare their positions on the flag issue before voters went to the polls in 2002. That requirement didn't apply to Dean himself, as he "coyly" told the Rutland Herald, because he wasn't on the ballot that year. So now that he is running for president, the candidate who prides himself in speaking bluntly should explain the limits of his support for the First Amendment -- in plain English.

Dean, pompous?  Imagine that!  ;-)

Politicians who talk out of both sides of their mouths and try to have everything both ways are nothing special, but those who do so while simultaneously wrapping themselves in faux "straight talk" images, describing themselves as unlike all those other politicians, really annoy me.