Reply #21: Yes...

[MarkTwain]

... Coincidentally, I read it within about fifteen minutes of his originally posting it.

I thought it to be exactly the type of information evident of the usual politically mature insight for which his readers contributed to send him to New Hampshire in the first place.

For those who can step back from the flames of the rapidly burning Dean candidacy - flames for which the candidate himself is responsible - the point of Mr. Marshall's' post was painfully obvious. It was that the "little people's candidate," the man who prides - and has sold himself - as being the Washington "outsider" with a solidly "liberal" foundation (how untrue we all really know that last one to be), here he is hiring a man with a pedigree which is notoriously the opposite of Doctor Dean's stated philosophies and presumed operating dynamics.

Does the word "hypocrite" come to mind, per chance?