Each day last week brought forth another Hillary broadside attacking Senator Obama. Not his policies. That wouldn’t change many minds. So her campaign fashioned perhaps the most effective assault upon Barack in a blue collar world. She has effectively castrated him in front of the whole country. Listen to the conversations flooding the media.

Senator Obama can’t close the deal. He is painted as a wimp. After the San Francisco tape all the comments forthcoming painted him as an elitist. Remember when she claimed he hadn’t passed the commander in chief test? And who was the only one running for election that hadn’t strapped on a sidearm.  Meanwhile Bill Clinton reminded the media that Obama was a whiner. What have all these portrayals in common? They all speak to the manhood of Mr. Obama, or rather to the lack of it.

This diary was originally published with a title that immediately blinded people to the greater message. What's more, I believe the reaction illustrated the precisely the point that I trying to make.

If Dems actually had a reaction on an equivalent level to Bush's defecation on "everything-that-is-America" that was half as virulent as the reaction my original diary received because of a WORD then maybe, just maybe, America wouldn't be in the hellhole it finds itself....

Please note that I have written a separate diary with some commentary about how Obama's calls for empathy can help guide us into the future. Seeing how I cannot post two diaries in one day, I will post this sanitized diary first, and then post the commentary tomorrow.

(See below the fold for the "sanitized" version of the diary.)