and while we have to be vigilent of isolated, uncoordinated events to ensure they do not become the opposite, we also have to be mindful of when we are becoming too one "One Percent Solution-y," making too much of what may be nothing other than a human reaction.

I see your comment now. (I forget about Glenn's ability to see them ahead of time.)

That's where we have to differ. As a one-time or even occasional angry response, that intentionally or not, uses irony to give the Republicans a taste of their own medicine - as an earlier commenter put it, I don't really have a problem with it. (Political parties are political parties the same as bloggers are bloggers and commenters are commenters.) As ongoing political or governmental policy to ostracize or worse those who dare disagree, I have a great big problem with it.

(I didn't see a second response from DCLaw1), but perhaps that can be chalked up to the inferior capabilities of my computer and its operator.

I think relativity is very important to establishing the dangers posed by political comments and actions. If one sector has made it their practice years on end to behave a certainly way politically and another responds ONE TIME in a similar manner out of frustration, is the relative danger even debatable? We see fears trumped-up all the time based on comments made by certain Iranian president, but we establish relativity and perspective to his comments rather than take them at face value.

The DNC is also not the federal government and the establishment media, most of whom were aligned in this mindset during the Bush/Cheney years. I can see the criticism of the comment on its own, but it seems like the context is being ignored.

and were I the DNC, I would have made the point a bit differently. but we have to be a little careful ourselves of authoritarianism in dishing out our criticisms. The DNC as a political wing of a political party made an angry response that, while I may not agree with its content, I can understand the frustration of being accused years on end of the same thing, and I don't think a few "Hell, yeah, DNC" 's necessarily indicates a slippery slope. While the DNC is being villified for this one comment, I can find probably hundreds of comments questioning and demeaning Obama's loyalties and intentions just this week between the Olympic and NPP.

As I pointed out in my previous comment, I don't condone the comment and certainly don't want our discourse to consist of one party bashing the other's patriotism, but what the DNC did is nowhere near the nature and scope of what the right-wing has practiced down through the years and continues to practice much in excess of the DNC to this day.