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Snoop-Diggity-DANG-Dawg – 17.9 million are going to embrace Obama just because he’s all we got? Puhleeze. Let me clarify: Barack Obama has not been able to close the deal.

For all his much-vaunted oratory and his much-admired “transcendental candidacy” The Great Unifier CANNOT unify the Democratic Party without Hillary Clinton’s help. In 18 months of campaigning, he has not been able to make his case convincingly to HALF OF THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED. Right up to the last primaries. If that doesn’t bother you, it should.

Somehow, you seem to believe that Clinton stepping back is going to magically transform Obama to those 18 million voters as the embodiment of everything they want in a leader.

It will not.

18 million voters saw Clinton as THEIR leader. The majority of them did so for reasons that had nothing to do with her gender. The facts are simple: Obama does not speak to, or for, them. Clinton did.

Your smug assumption that all of those who do not, and will not support Obama are, ipso facto, part of Operation Chaos is short-sighted and false.

Let me assure you, Taylor Marsh is right on target. The blatant – and rewarded – sexism that was directed to Clinton during this campaign was NEVER leveled at Obama with respect to racism. No commentator or journalist EVER commented on the degree of “blackness” of his skin, or whether he is a pretty good basketball player because of his black side. No one EVER discussed the width of his nose, or the color of his lips. No one tried to sell an Obama doll that grins and shines shoes.

Had any of that happened, the outrage would have been vigorous and immediate. As it should.

Yet it was perfectly OK (except to Clinton supporters) that Clinton be dissected on her hips, ankles, hairstyle, pantsuits, and potential for not aging beautifully. It was OK to sell a Hillary nutcracker. It was OK to refer to her a “bitch”, “nagging wife”, “shrewish”, “ball-busting” and more.

Believe me, thre were plenty of men who were disgusted by those attacks, as were women.

You underestimate the high degree of antipathy towards Obama that exists today in roughly a third of the Democratic Party. You denigrate Clinton’s supporters at your peril. You ignore, to your detriment, the very real sense roughly half of registered Democrats have, today, that the Democratic Party only cares about their votes insofar as they need those votes to usher Obama into the White House. You dismiss those who have felt invisible to one Party for 8 years, and who now feel invisible to their own Party – you dismiss those voters with the arrogance displayed by most of the posters here – and you WILL feel the consequences in November.

So go right ahead. Continue to undermine the work to unify the Party that HILLARY CLINTON began this morning.

But then don’t be surprised when the Democrats lose yet another opportunity for the White House. And don’t blame Hillary Clinton for YOUR loss.