...spoke to an ACLU group in which he chastised Howard Dean for his abandonment of the propeace agenda, according to an open letter I just received from his website. He certainly is a man who speaks his mind. I have to admire his clarity, but I find his tone confrontational. While we're on the subject of framing, I think he could have expressed his regret at losing such a great [fill in the blank with speaker, politician, diplomat, thinker - I don't know much about Dean] to the cause of peace. He might as well have called Dean a traitor! Of course, we must take our audience into account; lawyers do tend to be more confrontational in style. However, I hope that "open" letter wasn't too open or the righties are going to use it as further evidence of divisiveness on the left. Maybe I just got it because I'm registered at his website. (But I'm sure the righties have their own intelligence system monitoring that site.)