I wasn't going to do this last night, but I changed my mind.  People apparently NEED to get called out.  Will the posters listed below please stand up...

AJM
another_reader
BevD
Billy Glad
bornagaindem
bslev
desidero
destor23
frankly0
loki redux
rwomalley
workerbee

Please report to the following thread as soon as possible:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/she-got-our-antipathy-the-old.php

First, credit where credit is due, the title of this post was actually from a post by Larry Geater in this thread:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/notes-on-ferraro-resignationre.php

(I don't want to be accused of political plagiarism, but if Larry is interested in being one of my National Co-Chairs, he may have to decide if he can work well with DF.  I digress.)  I've made two other posts expressing some of my viewpoints as this primary fight has rumbled along, once just prior to the voting in my home region of Greater Washington, DC:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/02/in-advance-of-the-potomac-prim.php

and once just after the March 4th Primaries which were so quickly dubbed a "resounding victory" for Senator Clinton:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/obama-supporters-dont-panic.php

Now let me say this up front:   I make no secret of the fact that I am a supporter, donor, and volunteer for Barack Obama.  I linked to my two previous posts just because I feel it is important to be open and honest about that fact.  I am proud of it.  I think he is the best candidate that the Democratic Party has to offer at this time.  I am absolutely confident that he will be our nominee.  I am absolutely confident that he will go on to win the nomination against John W. McCain, just as I am absolutely confident that Senator McCain is absolutely the wrong choice at the wrong time given all that our nation faces.  

I also link to my previous posts because I'm not writing now to directly address my support for Barack Obama, but rather my concern about the campaign of Senator Clinton, and in particular, some of her supporters.  As an Obama supporter, I learn anew every day that you have to have pretty thick skin.  At first we were called "Kool-Aid drinking cultists."  Then it was "impressionable elites."  Next we were maligned as "latte-sipping, Prius-driving, Birkenstock wearers."  (Apparently being environmentally conscious and having comfortable footwear is antithetical to our party values now.)  Today our enthusiastic support was demeaned as "tribalism."  I just wish our detractors would be consistent with their generalizations:  sometimes we're a bunch of immature kids, other times we're part of the tweed-jacketed professoriate, but frequently we're only supporting Barack Obama out of ignorance to his supposed lack of policy positions or ideas, simply because he speaks so well...

My concern is not that these insults are being voiced, but that they are being voiced so frequently by fellow Democrats, and more specifically, by supporters of Hillary Clinton.  There seems to be a disconnect in play here:  With a scant few exceptions, every Obama supporter I've ever met was also a