Schieffer establishes a false premise saying,"Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton are telling, they're telling superdelegates, they're telling anybody who will listen, they say this in private, but they, we keep hearing it, so there must be something to this. That they are saying that Barack Obama simply can't win and maybe the suggestion is 'can't win because he is an African-American.'"

This statement based on, admittedly by Schieffer, hearsay and assumption gives the viewer an erroneous point of view that the Clintons believe that African-Americans can not achieve the position of President.

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After Dean initially overlooks the faulty premise, he states that both candidates can win and that the campaigning has been healthy for the party, but it needs to come to an end soon.

Schieffer then returns to his original assumption by fishing Dean for details of any conversation to backup his premise, saying, "Have you talked to the either of the Clintons about this 'argument' that they are making to these delegates that Barack Obama can't win."

Dean then finally discredits the notion that the Clintons are making the argument that Barack Obama can not win because he is an African-American. He emphasizes that he does not believe the Clintons would make this race based argument. "I have not heard that they have made the argument that he can't win because he's African American." Dean continues by saying, "I don't think they would make that argument."

After being denied the affirmation that the Clinton's are using the race/electability argument, Schieffer then settles for a less-provocative, yet, baseless notion that Clinton is claiming that Obama can not win in general.

Dean states that both campaigns use the same rhetorical tactic of claiming that their opponent is less electable. He adds that all candidates in Presidential elections, including the election he was part of, will make that argument.

Dean adds, "If that's the worst thing that gets said in this campaign, then I think we are in very good shape."

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