I can't speak for women, since I'm a man. But perhaps what disturbs me about Mr. Obama's campaign is what disturbs women, working class white men, and others who have chosen to vote for a candidate they were told had no chance of winning the nomination rather than vote for Obama. Perhaps it helps to say that I am not a Clinton supporter but a neutral observer.

It speaks volumes that Obama supporters still don't understand that their candidate lost the popular vote of their own party, and only won the nomination by the grace of the very super delegates they had previously said should not be the ones to determine the winner. The media was so focused on the idea that Hillary Clinton acted as if the nomination was hers by right, that they failed to see the arrogance and obnoxiousness of her opponent's campaign. That elitism (for lack of a better word) was not lost on the rest of us.

Even tonight, I watched an analysis of Mrs. Clinton's campaign with Keith Olbermann and a guest on his show that served no other purpose than to endlessly attack her campaign with sarcasm and derision. This is supposed to be a news program. In the 40 years I have followed American politics, never have I seen a candidate (and her supporters) treated with such disrespect by the media. Switching the channel to the more conventional CNN, I found one spokesperson for the Obama campaign saying on the Larry King Show that, yes, the two candidates agree on most issues, but, for example, Mr. Obama's position on the Iraq War is deeper, more complex, more significant than Mrs. Clinton's. The spokesperson actually said, "You don't understand," and threw in a quote from Carl Jung.

Oh, dear...! Even though I was reading Carl Jung when this woman was in diapers, I don't think I've ever quoted Jung in the company of friends or colleagues or in any public forum whatsoever. Mr. Obama will probably win the election-- because John McCain is simply unacceptable-- but this elitism-- the idea that the people who support Obama are in a superior class and the rest of us ordinary mortals cannot possibly understand the complexities of his policies-- will stifle and eventually bring down his presidency. It can be traced back to early in the campaign when Mr. Obama refused to respond to Mrs. Clinton, who had extended her hand to him on the floor of the Senate. It goes back to Michelle Obama's statement that the only time she has ever been proud of her country is when her husban was able to win some primaries. It is a fatal flaw and will take major soul searching and redirection to fix it.