It is just sad you had her here. No one will ever convince me that Clinton is good for us nor that she is anything less than an inside the beltway and corporate pol.
I wish she would just go away and let us retire the dynasty thing and the Bush clinton era of shame.

People should have the opportunity to make that determination for themselves. Jane offered that opportunity to us.

Indeed, FDL has been annointed as an Official Threat to the status quo.

Three cheers for sunlight. woof woof woof!

Damn fine post Pow Wow.
Sad it’s in the EPU zone.

Yep.

Mrs. Michael Isikoff proves how far Jane’s FDL has come, and how much it now threatens the haters, when the power-serving newspaper at the corrupt center of our federal government starts publicly aiming its wrathful bile in FDL’s direction. Ms. Akers could never even imagine summoning such faux concern and censure for those who instigated and are cheerleading the savage and brutal occupation of an Arab nation; a nation that posed no threat to ours except perhaps the “threat” of asking us to pay for the oil those Arabs own and we covet.

Yet a momentary glimpse of a very short-lived (because quickly withdrawn with apologies) sardonic graphic image on a blog Akers and her powerful friends presumably never read (if their delicate sensibilities are to be taken at face value) is cause for special mention, months after the fact, in the midst of the ongoing horrors we are inflicting on Iraq; horrors that her newspaper’s editors and owners can’t even be bothered to mention, never mind condemn. In short, if the Washington Post is against it, it means it’s worth supporting, and vice versa. Hitler’s hate seems to have passed from many of his targets and their descendants now living in Israel, through America, onto the Arab people as a whole.

When are those in power ever going to learn to stop responding to hate from the powerful with hateful actions directed at those least able to retaliate, just to try to “get even” and thereby pass the buck of hate on down the line? The people in power today are the sort of people who kick the dog (Iraq) instead of confronting the source of hate (Saudi Arabia et al) face to face, and refusing to stand for it or to respond in kind, as soon as it makes itself known (long before 9/11).

FireDogLake doesn’t kick dogs; it confronts and questions the powerful sources of hate face to face. And the dog-kickers, like all secret cowards, hate seeing such decent, courageous (and increasingly visible) behavior challenging their craven cowering to power, however hateful the power may be. The dog-kickers also know that this new sort of power, represented by FDL and other ordinary American citizen-driven blogs, is not a hateful power, and is therefore seemingly safer for the dog-kickers to kick, than would be the hateful power represented by the Rove or Neocon or Wall Street Mobs, whom the dog-kickers choose to worship and obey as a pathetic and desperate result of their own feelings of inferiority and quaking fear of questioning the powerful.