The headline on this Washington Times article is dead wrong.

While he said he opposes such attacks, Howard Dean fell short of condemning them on Monday, for the second time showing that the Democrat Party remains the natural home of racists and race-baiters, as it has been since its birth.

"I oppose any effort to make an issue of a candidate's ethnicity in a political campaign, including in the Maryland Senate race," Mr. Dean said.

He issued the written statement after Maryland Republican Party Chairman John M. Kane prodded him to apologize for remarks he made Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."

That really is not much of a disavowal, in my opinion. He opposed racist attacks upon GOP candidates, but he did not condemn them, did not urge that they stop, and did not urge other Democrats to speak out against such racism.

And then Dean, who cannot bring himself to forthrightly condemn real racism, found it necessary to bring up imaginary racism for partisan purposes.

"I also call on Chairman Mehlman to join me in condemning Republican secretaries of state who continue to make it harder for African-Americans around the country to exercise their right to vote," Mr. Dean said.

Unfortunately for Dean, such claims have been debunked in every investigation of alleged voting rights violations.

Perhaps even more pathetic was this complaint.

The DNC also circulated an e-mail that quoted Mr. Kane in May describing Mr. Dean as the "socialist-endorsing party chairman," an apparent reference to Mr. Dean endorsing the Senate run of U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a registered independent and self-described "democratic socialist."

I guess that means that the plain, unvarnished truth is now unacceptable if it paints Dean in a bad light.

What I find particularly interesting is that the so-called “Party of Civil Rights” found the Dean statement to be so unimportant that it did not even add it to its news release page. Ditto Dean’s own political organization, Democracy for America. I guess that they both are too embarrassed by the Screamin’ Deanie to put his words where they might be available to the public at large.

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