Sheopenly mocked Obama's rhetoric today.

CNN is featuring her at an overflowing rally with an audience of young people who are all laughing as she imitates him by shouting

"The sky will open and the light will come down!"

The Obama lovers and women haters will be in an uproar!

It seems like things are turning back to Hillary!

Don't be surprised if we look back to Saturday Night Live and Tina Fey as the point where we took back our media and our country.

Tina started the way by denouncing the sexist Hillary bashing.

1. Both Obama and Clinton have high-sky approval ratings among democrats. Obama-haters and Clinton-haters alike are a small minority. Taylor Marsh and her ilk are vicious Obama-haters and not at all representative of the electorate.

2. There definitely is A LOT of sexism against Hillary Clinton, but it doesn't follow that Obama or his campaign is sexist. Which they are not.

3. The reason Hillary Clinton is losing in the democratic primary is not because of sexism. It is because she has simply run the wrong kind of campaign. She and her strategists misjudged the mood of the American electorate, and in so doing squandered the enormous advantages in popularity, support, and money she had going into the race.

That habitual demonizing & feminizing is also at the root of the "criticism" that HRC is "divisive" (because her persecutors are jerks) or that she's, passively, a lightning rod.

BTW, don't forget that tonight's the night for what sounds like a story that could set off a cascade of explosions that will blow the lids off other barely contained pockets of corruption. (It sounds right up TL's alley).

Yesterday, Scott emailed [Glenn Greenwald] to say:

You should alert your readers to watch 60 Minutes on Sunday for an extremely important piece. They will learn how at the instigation of Karl Rove, the Justice Department was turned into a political hit machine to destroy the reputation and ultimately imprison AL governor Don Siegelman on accusations which do not constitute, no matter how you parse it, a crime. . . .

It's an extraordinary, deep peek into a hopelessly corrupt Justice Department. They've been struggling to keep the lid on this story for two years. And on Sunday it is going to blow.

More details and background on tonight's 60 Minutes story are in this AP story here.

If he wants that much credit, then he must take the responsibility that comes with it.

Although it's true that he doesn't control the progressive blogs, it's very apparent that he has a close relationship with them. Over the past months he has benefited openly from their attacks - many of which have been blatantly misogynistic - but has not criticized them.

He complained at the debate about those who characterize his followers as cultists. But a review of his website - which adopts semi-religious themes to depict him - leaves himself open to that type of criticism. Similarly his rhetoric that he "can unite folks" despite generations of acrimony without offering substantive proof of past successes sounds like those who promise the "spaceship is coming" or "Armageddon arrives tomorrow."

These tactics will kill his campaign in the general but no one is allowed to speak out about it. (See posts above threatening bloggers who don't fall into line. See memo from his campaign about the need to promulgate that Bill Clinton's remarks were actually racist.)

Granted, the Obama/Clinton split hinges on many factors aside from gender.  But the gender issue is brought up constantly without a serious look at what underlies it

To me, it seems clear that gender bias is involced. Male workers feeling the economic pinch must be at their most vulnerable, psychologically, since a male's status is so closely associated with his earning power. To see a woman in a position with the highest power when a man is struggling with his own self esteem, can't be a welcome experience for many.