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Nice try but not so fast, my friend.
Millions of us, particularly women, would have celebrated the historic accomplishmnet of nominating the first female major party candidate for president, after all women make up more than half of the population.
We are tired of Obama supporters treating Hillary Clinton with disrespect. But more than that, we are worried that the Democratic candidate is inexperienced, associated with people who are bigots and that he has few substantive solutions for the problems we face.
You'd better try to convince us we are wrong instead of trying to guilt-trip us into supporting a candidate who had the deck stacked in his favor by the DNC and who did not beat Clinton in the popular vote.
Before we all start singing Kumbaya, Sen. Obama needs to mend some fences, particularly among working-class voters in traditionally Democratic states who either are having their votes being taken for granted or are being written off in favor of "new, young, educated" voters.
