Well-written, the piece is stuffed with the most subtle of vitrol. It is also often wrong. As a member of the California Democratic Party Progressive Caucus, I assure you that the most extreme liberals from the far-left state of California will largely support Clinton if she is the nominee. We also consider both Clinton and Obama to be fairly conservative Democrats. Furthermore, my own experience in electoral politics suggests that the majority of voters neither know or care about a candidate's voting record.

The subtext of this attempted hatchet job is disgust that voters on the right and left like Obama. There is no more right wing group than the Manhattan Institute, hence the proliferation of unfounded, unproven, and just plain made up characterizations that make up this piece. "Proleptic" is the word that attracted my attention to the story and sure enough the definition, for us vocabulary deprived folks, is just as untrustworthy as his contention that Obama is unqualified for liberal voters when the writer tells us the record proves just the opposite. He is not a Liberal anyhow. I would entitle this messy, desperate polemic "Obama Bizarrerie" and be done with it.