Maybe He Knows Something They Don't

Just read this about Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean in the recent Iowa debate

He generated a properly scornful laugh for announcing he would balance the federal government in "the sixth or seventh year of my term" - a statement that's an act of disrespect to voters because it presumes not only that he will be elected in November but reelected in November 2008. He looked baffled and more than a little rattled by the laughter, a deer-in-the-headlights moment from which he did not easily recover.

It reminded me of the following quote by Matt Hasselbeck made after winning an overtime coin toss in the playoffs,

We want the ball, and we're going to score.

We know what that bold statement led to, but I'll allow someone else to draw parallel conclusions.