effort to hide the praise for a prominent Democrat at the end of the sentence
2. Reveal that the comments are 9 years old and not contemporary
3. Reveal the disclaimer at the top of at least one of these posts stating that the individual thinks most of their beliefs at the time were ill-informed and wrong.

I'll admit that it's difficult to find transcripts of speeches Dean made a decade ago. That's usually why most people don't dig up comments made 9 years ago and ask for supporting evidence. You do seem aware that Dean had his legal representation argue for a narrower interpretation of the Commerce Clause, so I'm not sure why you think it's so outlandish that Dean would have spoken in favor of the position he was pushing for legally (or why Dean's actions in the court seem to elicit less of a response from you than Greenwald's remarks in a blog's comments section).

I suppose it's possible that Greenwald was making up the whole thing in an effort to undeservedly praise Democrats. Unwarranted praise for Democrats is what he always gets attacked for here, no?