We need to look at the Democratic Party, expand the party, expand the base and not throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Apparently, she's decided to give the remaining voters their voice.

If you look at sites such as Democraticunderground, Dailykos, Huffingtonpost, as well as Moveon.org, and  Josh Marshall and the lefty's on the radio, we have a coalition all to simliar to the extreme right wing one that brought Mr. Bush to power some eight years back.
These activists have done nothing but antagonize anyone who does not fully support Mr. Obama.
I am not looking forward to my choices in the fall if it is Obama v. McCain.
To McCain's defense, he does not tow the party line and the right wing is NOT banging the McCain drum the way they did the Bush drum and the left the Obama drum.

Ms. Brazile's words are textbook.  When she says "not throw the baby out with the bathwater" she means her "new coalition" does not need Latinos and white, blue collar workers.

This is some coalition that Obama's primary supporters are building.  His primary supporters have been so caught up in denigrating the accomplishments and legacy of the 90s that they have deluded themselves into believing they do not need the Clinton coalition.

I'll vote for Obama if he is the nominee.  I heard him ask for my vote last night -- which is more than Donna Brazile and his shrilly-silly supporters in the left blogosphere have done.

How is the Democratic Party, the party for the people, not the businesses, going to stand for the people if it shoos them away like this?  How can you argue for helping the working class when you "don't need them" in your coalition?  Brazile's talk is very destructive to the Democratic brand.

We should be moving to embrace the working class of all races and fighting to get the working class into the Obama coalition, regardless of race.  Pushing away the white working class and keeping the black working class just reinforces the notion this is about race.

However, commenters said they did not hear the word "just."  It's possible it wasn't easily audible -- or it's possible CNN cleaned up her remarks.

What is this but an absolutely clear admission that she knows perfectly well whom she really supports, but is not going to own up to it?

Could there be a better reason to strip her of her pretense to being anything resembling an impartial observer, as she does whenever she speaks as an "analyst"?

I read Ms. Brazile's comments to say that she's confident the "old coalition" will still be in place when the "new coalition" moves in.

If she wants that to be the case, she ought to listen to her own remarks and ask herself why all those older white women are going to stick around . . . to be told they're racist?  To be told that no matter how qualified or competent or strong a woman is, she's never going to be in the same ball game as a man?  To be relentlessly and publicly mocked by the very members of the "new coalition" for style of dress, tone of voice, quality of laughter?

I know what the McCain campaign is doing this morning.  They're asking themselves how they appeal to all those voters Ms. Brazile is assuming belong to her candidate.  Let's hope her candidate is making a similar analysis.

IN total    O      C           (+6)
72          33     39

Sen. Obama ends up with a net gain of 11 delegates.

Latino's are if anything a very new thing for the dems to digest.

Low class, don't have enough money to be middle-class, under-educated, because we were so low class that my parents could only afford to send one of us to college and that was my brother. (Actually no misogyny there, he was so brilliant it would have made no sense to send me when I was "merely" bright. And yes, I resented it anyway.)

I then spent 40 years as a mother, a wife, an ex-wife, while holding down a job as a Secretary-Receptionist, which is of course not part of the "creative class".

I believe that Brazile means what she says and I think that a small, very vocal, powerful and elitist percentage of the Democratic Party agrees with her.

I don't think she meant to say what she did out loud and Begala was clearly appalled, but I think what slipped out was exactly how she and many like her thinks and feels.

"The great divide in this country is not by race or even income, it's by those who think they are better than everyone else and think they should play by a different set of rules," --Bill Clinton

NC woulda been good for her, but I expected it to go for him.

New party--urban, young and educated.

Silly dichotomy given Ohio, Penn and Missouri.

Well, Lou, I have worked on a lot of Democratic campaigns, and I respect Donna. But, Donna, you're looking at the old coalition. A new Democratic coalition is older. It is more rural, as well as suburban, and we don't have to just rely on younger urban voters and African Americans. We need to look at the Democratic Party, expand the party, expand the base and not throw out the baby with the bathwater.

You assume, because I reject and renounce Nader like statements,  I am an Obama supporter. You are incorrect. I also have rejected and renounced divisive statements from Obama supporters on MyDD and Kos (though I conceded its hard for me to read comments on Kos anymore and I don't venture to the comments much).

Why you would impute an asinine comment by some  unnamed idiot on DU to Obama is curious and short sighted. I think you would do well to read JM's latest post re: McCain and Scotus and the war.

As for

Bush's fundie supporters, and Obama's worshippers.

i still have all of my various appendages crossed, in hopes that sen. clinton can somehow manage to pull off a miracle. otherwise, be prepared to watch the inauguration of pres. mccain next jan.

It is almost certain that Obama will be the nominee. He needs to unify the Party.  

well BTD, he's not demonstrated any particularly impressive leadership skills thus far, by what stretch of your imagination do you think he would suddenly start now?

believe it or not, i didn't vote for him not because he's a black man, or because i didn't like him (heck, i'd never even really heard of him before last year!), but because i am 100% certain he's not ready for the most important job in the world, by a long stretch.

during the course of the primary season, he's done nothing to change my initial view. if anything, i'm less convinced now than i was at the beginning; the man hasn't presented an original thought during the entire campaign!

i had believed that, given additional experience, he could be a great future contender for the party. no longer, as he will lose, badly, in nov. that's unfortunate.

i fully understand and appreciate the groundswell of support he's received from the AA community, as kennedy did from the irish-catholic crowd; voting for one of your own is a time honored tradition in this country, nothing wrong with that at all.

however, kennedy was able to appeal to a broader base of support (and at that, the '60 election was a close run thing.), sen. obama has failed to duplicate that, just in the primaries. why would anyone think he'll accomplish it in the GE?

add the right-wingnut 527's (who didn't exist in the '60 election), and sen. obama will not have a chance in the fall. anyone who discounts the effect those 527's will have is deluding themselves.

Perhaps you should focus instead on Begala's shameful dismissal of African Americans and "eggheads" (has Begala morphed into Spiro Agnew? I'm surprised he didn't say effete snobs).