I don't have to bash Dean today...

Because Princeton political scientist Fred Greenstein does it for me in USA Today.

"Character, whether you mean it as moral fiber or psychological soundness, is really the bottom line in an office in which the incumbent is never more than a couple of dozen feet away from the nuclear button. You want to be very comfortable with the personal wiring of your chief executive," says Fred Greenstein, an authority on presidential leadership at Princeton University.

He adds: "It's easy to feel uneasy about Dean in the Oval Office."

And he's right...