Aaron Burr

Apparently Howard Dean, on CBS News' Face the Nation on Sunday, compared Vice President Dick Cheney to another famous vice president who was later tried for treason.

The comparison is somewhat strained.

First, Aaron Burr was acquitted.

Second, Burr never shot anybody while in office.

Although John Quincy Adams did say, when Burr died, "Burr's life, take it all together, was such as in any country of sound morals his friends would be desirous of burying in quiet oblivion."

Perhaps in an undisclosed location.