Reply #3: Actually, Dean's tendency to say what he wants when he wants,

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while a strength in some ways, also has a real potential to become a big problem for him. He prides himself on being independent and doing what he wants despite what his handlers tell him. I think he needs to be more aware of the intense scrutiny he's under now and that everything he says is going to be researched back to his Yale days probably.

Still, am I being overly sensitive, or is the reference to an RPG in this article kind of tasteless?

The frontpage of my local paper featured a photo of the flag-draped coffin of a young soldier's funeral...the soldier was killed by an RPG attack. That could explain why that sentence jarred me when I read it.