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George Will probes the depths of Howard Dean's mind - and barely wets the soles of his shoes.

Figure this out:

Asked by Matthews whether he supports state right-to-work laws protecting the right of workers not to join a union, Dean said no. But he also said ``I very much believe that states ought to have the right to recognize -- to organize their own laws. So I'm not likely as president ... to order states to change them.'''

Then he says:

In his next breath, Dean said that if Congress sends to his presidential desk legislation denying states that right that he ``very much'' believes they ought to have -- the right to have right-to-work laws -- ``I'd sign it in an instant.'' This is the intellectuals' candidate?

Dean seems to get lost when his sentence exceed bump sticker length. Maybe that's why he seems so two-dimensional.