Well, LH, I don't find anything you say in your post above to disagree with. When this whole thing started out, I wasn't nearly at opposed to Obama as I find myself now.
                      There were some things that happened. I think it started with Wisconsin, where Obama outspent Hillary 5:1. A few days later we discovered that Hillary's campaign was broke and she had to loan money to keep the candidacy alive.
                      I think that's when it became more apparent to me how important the MoveOn.org people were. They were simply herding the American people towards the person that they picked out to serve as president for the American public.
                      The other thing were the caucuses. When I looked into how they worked, I could see that there were a whole lot of people who were excluded. They weren't overtly excluded; they were excluded because they didn't have the disposable time to participate. Of course, if it was a life and death thing for them, they could have probably worked something out, but most people don't feel that way about voting.
                        Then too, I don't know how many times I heard gaggles of pundits making the announcement, "Obama got more delegates out of Idaho than Hillary got out of Texas and Ohio." I would submit, there is something patently wrong with that.
                        The thing about the caucuses in places like Idaho and Wyoming is, there are hardly any Democrats there. The ones who are there are probably people like school teachers, librarians, postal workers, and etc. I'm sure you'll agree, there aren't a lot of long shoremen in Wyoming.
                      By the time things got to West Virginia and Kentucky, the working class folks had figured out that they'd really been had. I think that's why those folks voted the way they did, and racism had very little to do with it. An old retired coal miner suffering from "black lung" can certainly see multitudes of problems related to a bunch of school teachers in Idaho delivering more delegates to a candidate then the combined states of Ohio and Texas.
                      And then, backtracking a little bit, in the deep south states, the black vote went to Obama by more than 90% in some cases. That, to me, is the most stark example of racism I've ever seen in my life--though I suppose you could call it sexism.
                      At the end of the day, I don't see myself really disliking Obama, I just don't think he should be in the postition in which he finds himself. I don't think he's qualified to serve in the office of president, and I'll be damned if I'll support him.