Re:Chelsea Clinton: Did peoples' spin-detectors suddenly short out?

[JDPriestly]

28. You mean sort of like censoring things to repeat one's own version of the Democratic Party line.

Who gets to decide what is or is not a right-wing argument? That's the trouble with censorship. Who gets to be the censor. You and I might agree on 99% of political issues. But there might be 1% on which we disagree. At that point do you censor me or do i censor you. It's quite difficult.

DU is about sharing information and opinion. It's a site for Democrats, but not necessarily only for mainstream Democrats. So we have a wide range of opinions on things.

The Clintons are not the Holy Family. They are not royalty -- not yet. If people want to criticize them even unfairly, let it be. It is healthy in a democracy for people to be suspicious of the powerful, especially of powerful families like the Bushes and the Clintons. Very healthy.

I don't want to have a royal family. Horrors! No one is too high and mighty to be criticized or misunderstood or satirized. That's democracy. That's free speech. Hey! We also make fun of Wolf Blitzer and some of the other TV repeaters. It's what makes us a free people.

As Truman is quoted as saying (whether he did or not): If it's too hot, get out of the kitchen.

In other words, if you don't have some humility and a sense of humor about yourself, if you can't take the satire and unfairness, get out of politics.