It's not shady if we tell you we're going to do it.

It seems that DNC chairman Howard Dean is waking up to the idea that a steel-cage death match between Obama and Hillary is not going to do their party much good. So what's his solution?

"The idea that we can afford to have a big fight at the convention and then win the race in the next eight weeks, I think, is not a good scenario," Dean said according to excerpts of an interview with NY1 television...

"I think we will have a nominee sometime in the middle of March or April. But if we don't, then we're going to have to get the candidates together and make some kind of an arrangement," said Dean, who failed in his bid for the party's nomination in 2004.

The AFP article then goes on to state, "A brokered convention has not been seen in decades, and harkens back to an era of shady political deal-making when powerbrokers and cash kings -- instead of regular voters -- chose one candidate over another at a raucous, smoke-filled convention hall."

Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't Dean suggesting that they might have to engage in the same kind of backroom dealmaking the article clearly disdains? I guess as long as it doesn't happen at the convention, and as long as we tell you the decision will be made in a smoke-filled room, that makes it OK.

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