Thanks for the joyful email. Like most of the other pro Clinton emails, I have now put them in a special folder called `tales from the gutter.

    Stay positive and remember if she wins, you will need Obama supporters and donors. So please stop throwing stones. Give her the support now and stop sending frivolous emails..

It's hard to imagine someone in politics, of all places, being so foolish. And it looks like it isn't an isolated incident.

I just sent Hillary a private e-mail telling her that supporters like you are destroying her candidacy."

"The American people deserve leaders who respect the right of every eligible voter to cast his or her vote and to have that vote counted. The Bush Administration has systematically worked to undermine that right by politicizing essential federal voter protections, downplaying voter suppression tactics, and promoting discriminatory voter ID laws that disenfranchise American voters. The assault on voting rights is easily the most disturbing and inexcusable example of the Bush Administration's unbridled willingness to use the American government for the benefit of narrow partisan interests. The same voters targeted by these Republican efforts, whether Hispanic, African American, AAPI, or Native American, are all among those serving with honor in Iraq and Afghanistan. They shouldn't have to fight for their right to vote when they come home.

"The list of tools that Republicans have used to enhance their electoral prospects at the expense of our right to vote reads like a shameful litany from past eras: restricting access to voter registration, improper attempts to purge voter lists, the use of voting machines that leave no verifiable audit trails, criminal phone jamming schemes, discriminatory voter ID laws, inconsistently administered elections, and now we find out, politicizing the Department of Justice. These Republican schemes are not just undemocratic, they're un-American. The time has come for Republicans to stop playing politics with our fundamental right to vote, and for President Bush, Mitch McConnell, and the Republican Party to apologize to the American people."

Reading about these exchanges (at blogs noted and elsehwhere of late), it is clear that Brazile has not just lost any semblance of neutrality.  She has lost it, period.  So I am even happier now that I determined some months ago to stop donating at all to the DNC or to my state party, as states pay a proportion to national organizations for such budget items as staff salaries, too.  

Some have been less than happy but that is our right as democrats, to question our party leaders.

Donna does not seem to like being called out on her obvious support of Obama.

She should be careful when hitting reply because once it is out there it cannot be brought back.

Thank you for your input.  We are all considering all the positions and we assure you that we are working for what is best for the Democratic party.  Our party is honored to have concerned voters like you.  We will all work to take back the White House.  Please keep your commitment.  Yours in collaboration and enthusiasm. Donna Brazille.  

I believe everyone is working hard - starting with officials in Florida who made the bold and stupid move to disenfranchise their own citizens. They knew the rules and the consequences. This is not about Obama and Clinton. So do not stoke flames. They both signed pledges and I will not bend for one and not the other.

This kind of comment should not be made by a DNC official under any circumstances.

You are not at City Hall testifying to the Mayor/Council.  That is where democracy and freedom of speech issues reign...or not.

Here, on a private website, you are a visitor...a guest (as I am and as are we all).  You/we are, in effect, in Jeralyn's living room where the front door is always open to the passing public...welcome to engage in the ongoing conversation at her salon.

Welcome, yes...but with 'house rules.'  The hostess always makes the rules...that is a given no matter where you go, and she can have us thrown out at will...fairly, unfairly, for any reason that crosses her mind at a given moment.  Any host or hostess, any time, anywhere...it's the same...and it's basic to civilization from the castle where the queen reigns to my house where I send you home if you act up/out.

Simple.  Clear?

She might want to take a little of her own advice.   The party may actually need the Clinton supporters that some now seem determined to malign.  If Senator Obama is the nominee, I wonder if the actuality of Senator Clinton having to intercede with her supporters on his behalf is one that may actually induce more anger if things don't start cooling down soon.  I wonder if the reverse might be true as well.

Ms. Brazile might also want to consider that people are justifiably upset about MI/FL and not just motivated by the interests of their preferred candidate.

Notably, Smith does not check with Brazile to see if she confirms that she sent the offending emails, although he cleverly gets her to say that she has responded to some hostile emails without identifying what her response was or to what emails she was responding. He does not publish the content of the emails to which Brazile is supposedly responding, and neither does DJIA at Hillaryis44. He does not seek to identify the true identity of the person who posted this item on Hillaryis44. All in all, pretty shoddy journalism.