I think its all about misdirection.... because the reason that Obama is the "presumptive nominee" has nothing to do with sexism.  It has to do with the corruption of the DNC.

While 'sexism' doubtless played a role in the size of Clinton v Obama margins, the simple fact is that CLinton was winning in all the important states despite the prevalence of sexism.  

Clinton "transcended" gender to a very large extent when it came to the voting booth -- Obama is the nominee because despite the overwhelming evidence that Clinton was the stronger candidate for November, and far better prepard to take on the repsonsibilities of President, super-delegates continued to flock to Obama.

Obama had TWO GOOD WEEKS in mid-February  That was it.  By every rational criteria, after that Clinton demonstrated that she was the superior candidate.  After Texas and Ohio, the flow of superdelegates doward Obama should have stopped...and after Pennsylvania it should have reversed itself --- IF the superdelegates were looking out for the interests of the country and the party.

But my feelings have hardened considerably.  The passion has been replaced by a cold emptiness.  The party I joined four years ago (for the purpose of caucusing for Howard Dean, no less) has revealed itself to be as bad as the Republican party.  Worse, maybe, since Republicans are usually upfront about screwing you.  Dems do it behind closed doors.

This is a national teach-in on women's anger - whether women will own it, firstly, and then whether the anger becomes political energy and moves us forward.

This is not just about Hillary - Hillary's treatment exposed how all women are treated.  That's why the resonance is so strong.

Watch out for the classic tools of delegitimation: analysis becomes whining, anger becomes bitterness, dissent becomes divisiveness.

Even an acknowledgement that there was a wrong, while better, does nothing either to fight for the Clinton (former-)Dems or to woo them back into support of the party's nominee.

A better approach might be something like this:

"We are disgusted by the sexism and other shenanigans that have occurred in this campaign, and we are ashamed that this campaign has helped to perpetuate it.  This behavior is going to stop right now.  Here's how: [Insert appropriate changes that we can believe in.]

We believe our candidate is qualified.  We know we'll need to work to convince you of that.  While we have benefitted from some of these wrongs, we don't see a way to undo what has been done.  We do, however, intend to work to make it up by [insert appropriate uniter-not-divider-type actions here]."

Working class?  Women?  Seniors?  That's so retro and 20th century.

I've lost almost all respect for Dr. Dean this season, as well as McCaskill, Brazille, etc.  They should have been at the forefront of the Dem party, saying "There are good reasons to oppose Senator Clinton, without the insults, the taunts, etc. that hurt all women, not just Sen. Clinton."  Instead, they were oblivious to it, when they weren't actually cheering it on.

Now that they've got what they've wanted, (and they've started to realize that they could actually lose this thing without the Clintons and the Clinton voters), suddenly they're aware that they may have crossed the line with millions of women.  It's a bit like watching Larry Talbot change from Wolfman to human again and saying "Wah...?  Did I really kill all those people?  But I didn't mean to!"

Perhaps you should be trolling -- I mean polling -- the 90% of African American voters who support Senator Obama and ask if they're voting because of race.

That's nearly 40% of her supporters he's going to have to win back and, as it stands, his arrogance is preventing him from clearly seeing he needs to come off his damn high-horse and WORK for those votes.  In the bubble they keep him in, he doesn't need them to win and Michelle and Oprah are already choosing the drapes and -- per his remarks in Chicago yesterday -- looking at a successful second term ending in 2016.

He is still hopelessly light on record, credibility and actual achievement beyond being a plausible figurehead. Even his words aren't his own.

At a fraction of Obama's burn rate, Senator Clinton won the voters themselves and came out of it with the kind of respect and support that is historically awesome considering the unprecedented attacks even from her own party.

She'll get stronger in this. Obama's weaknesses will only undermine his candidacy, should the Democrats not have buyer's remorse by the convention. Obama has yet to be tested both as a candidate and as a leader at the national level.

If McCain nominates a moderate female VP, the Republicans will be the ones making history.