Reply #75: I don't think anything that Obama does in office

[LWolf]

is going to change the festering gangrene that was exposed within the party that traditionally champions, or used to be seen to champion anyway, the disenfranchised.

The willingness of Democratic campaigners and voters to play race and gender cards, to take race and gender sides and go to war on that basis, cannot be laid at Obama's door. That's a corruption deep within the party that has been there longer than Obama has been a voter, and has been exposed.

Who's going to be amputated to effect a "cure?" I believe the answer will ultimately be the left wing of the party.

I think that the process will be speeded up under an Obama administration. When you have a Democratic president who embraces homophobic religious figures, republicans, and conservatives while distancing himself from the "excesses" of the left; when you have a Democratic president who moves aggressively to move center-right priorities forward, with the enthusiastic support of the majority of the Democratic party, the problem isn't going to change for the better.