Howard Dean and McCain's "100 Days"

The Democratic National Committee is still promoting its intentional mischaracterization of John McCain's comment that the United States would stay in Iraq for "100 years". This, even after the left-of-center national news media mocked Barack Obama and his usage of McCain's quote. When it's apparent, even to the mainstream media, that McCain was talking about a presence in Iraq similar to the presence that we have today in Germany (62 years after World War 2) and South Korea (55 years after the Korean War), you know the Democrats have a problem. But the irrepressible Howard Dean still thinks he can con the American public on this issue. From John McCaslin over at Townhall.com:

While Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton continue to duke it out for the Democratic nomination for president, Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is trying to refocus some of his party's negative attention on Republican candidate Sen. John McCain.

"John McCain wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years. He's said it, and it's on tape," Mr. Dean recalled this week, although he opined that the McCain camp "viciously" attacks anyone who references the 100 years comment as "deliberately misleading voters."

So Mr. Dean has taken Mr. McCain's "own words" — video of him saying that 100 years would be "fine with me" — and made a TV ad for Americans to watch this week when they otherwise would be tuning in to the Obama-Clinton saga, which as the DNC chairman knows all too well is growing uglier by the day.

I know that Dean's trying to distract voters from Obama-Wright-Clinton, but I don't think he wants to do it in a way that he knows 1) will get slapped down by his very own friendly-to-the-Democrats drive-by media, and 2) will serve as a recruiting video for al-Qaeda.

Or, perhaps he does...