In all due respect -- and in the vein of my above post -- it's this "felt soooooo good" retributive attitude that is yielding such alienation from those of us -- women and men alike of all stripes -- who are hoping to build a new kind of post-culture-wars public sphere.

Reminds me of Dylan's "Ballad of the Thin Man" -- "Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you Mr Jones?" (Mr Jones being all the old culture warriors, from both the left and the right, who haven't yet figured out that the part of the train they're bunked out in has been unhitched for awhile and is moving nowhere.

If you can stand a little inspiration, read this analysis of Alice Walker's endorsement of Barack:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/29/ 124042/507/409/486744

Thanks for the support.