Dean said "...dishonest or incompeten? It has to be one of the two."

I am surprised at his restrain! Why couldn't be both? I am certainly not a Deaniac but I, for one, believe that the administration tries to mask its incompetence by recurring to dishonesty. And from what I hear, I may not be the only one to think so.

I don't think dishonest and incompetent are mutually exclusive. Bush has consistently demonstrated both.

But damned funny!

I've seen polls showing that the word "incompetent" is the first that springs to mind to many people when asked an open-ended question to describe the Bush administration. But, I think that it's clear that it's not an either/or situation. Bush is BOTH dishonest and incompetent.

The point is that the President's apparent "incompetence" is working like a charm - and, so far, has protected him from close scrutiny.

NEVER FORGET: This is a President who has told the American press and people that he has made no mistakes. This means that everything, every result, every "mistake", every example of "incompetence" was actually intended and intentional.

Bush is both dishonest and incompetent. And if Sy Hersh is correct about the latest saber-rattling about Iraq, Bush is also mentally ill. Nor is he alone in his madness: Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Condi are also certifiable.

Let us please throw the GOP out in November so that we can also throw out the entire Administration. That is, of course, if Bush and his goons have not started WWIII by then...

Thank God somebody in the Democratic party has finally stumbled into the "have you stopped beating your wife?" tactic that backs the Republicans into a corner for a change. This construction fits so many Bush Administration issues.

"You were wrong about WMDs. That's a fact. So, Mr. President. Were you incompetent or dishonest?"

"Your tax cuts for the wealthy have turned a historic surplus into a unprecedented deficit in five short years. So, Mr. President. Were you incompetent or dishonest?"

"You were handed a PDB warning that Bin Laden was planning to attack in the U.S. but you went on vacation, later explaining that if you had known something was going to happen, you would have moved heaven and earth to stop it. So, Mr. President. Were you incompetent or dishonest?"

I love this game. I might make a T-Shirt out of it.

"After some nervous laughter from the assembled journalists, Dean realized his mistake. "I'm always getting myself in some trouble," he said."

See, at first I thought he was a crazy motormouth. I still do, but now, I kind of like the crazy motormouth.

Answer: BOTH. They are not mutually exclusive. And in the case of G. W. Bush, we have an astonishingly dishonest moron.

As everyone else has said, Bush is both dishonest and incompetent. I just hope enough citizens are waking up to how disastrously dishonest and incompetent he has been, so we can kick out the Repugs from both the House and the Senate in November, then impeach the stupid sumbitch, along with his VP, and various other top-level officials.

And yes, keep pointing out what scum Republicans are. They're not just dishonest, not just incompetent; they're scum. To be a Republican these days is to be evil. That a leading member of "God's Own Party" should turn out to be a child molester shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, but it's also a point we need to keep on making.

We all misunderestimate the motivs of this nucuar AWOL artist. He lies honestly pretty near every time he opens his trap and is competent to believe the likes of Cheney and Rumsfel, not to forget his background eminence Karlyboy. In all other aspectshe is dishonest and incompetent.

Howard Dean is wondering whether the President is dishonest or incompetent. In his place, I would not ponder too long - the

answer is plainly BOTH unfortunately. And it is quite disastrous.

When will the American people finally reject the man and his

buddies?