I missed Donna Brazile's performance last night, but watched the clips and read the transcript this morning, and was appalled.  Brazile is a one-woman vote destroyer. She had me reconsidering my position and wondering whether to simply abstain or write-in in the fall.

She is a menace. Yeah, Donna, "words matter." And your words lose Obama votes every time you let them pass your lips.

Once he shuts Donna up, Obama needs to do more than talk the Unity talk.  He needs to actually do the hard work of making the demographics that Brazile so smugly dismisses feel that their votes are valued. Which means he has to stop talking unity and actually address the issues that working people of all colors care about, and not just refer people to his website. He needs to reassure people that he really believes in universal healthcare, and not just a simulcram of universal healthcare.  He needs to reassure working people that he's not going to go all Bush on us and privatize Social Security.  He needs to get his thinking straight on foreign policy, and talk about exactly how he's going to get us out of Iraq. He's got to stop clothing himself with the vaporous cloak of post-partisanship, and take actual positions.

And he's got to stop his supporters from hectoring, lecturing and condescending to the rest of us.