Two turkey buzzards walk out of a bar. One says, "Now, what do we do?." The other one says, "I think I want to kill something."

I don't think Obama and the Democrats have much understanding of the turkey buzzard resentment and pugilism beating in the hearts of men, particularly white men in this country, particularly those who work with their hands and those who don't have the education to qualify for upper level jobs. Unlike turkey buzzards, marginalized white males don't have actual targets to unload their instincts upon when extinction threatens them.  

Enter, stage Left:  Obama, the Democrats, the "War on Women" and those ever present lazy minorities who are sucking the life out of us.

Unable to consummate his economic message against Obama, Romney has now switched to stirring up resentment among white males about why things are bad for them. In tandem, Obama is ramping up his rhetoric about the War on Women and his Convention will feature a stream of women representing all the reasons Romney/Ryan are against their gender. At best there might be a standoff between women's rights and white males' lost status. At worse the War on Women rhetoric might win even more male converts to Romney's cause.

At midlife I left a corporate career and "dropped out". Those years of part time teaching, designing works of art, going to nude encounter groups in Malibu and spending-down my assets were truly fun. But I paid a price and realized in my fifties that if I didn't pull my finances together I might be living out of my van in old age.

That's when I had the distinct impression that young women, who had increasingly entered the work force while I was dropping out, were standing in my way. When a young woman in the dreaded "H.R." explained that, essentially, I was overqualified for a job I really needed I was in a rage against her and her ilk. I didn't become a turkey buzzard but I may have keyed her red starter Mercedes on my way out of the parking lot. A friend in the Executive Recruiting business told me, "Oxy, they're not going to hire you at your age."---which I already knew.

I was fortunate to have had enough business background and entrepreneurial skills that after begging and borrowing money I put together enough finances to start a business which I'm still running today. But if my own experience of being, in fact, marginalized was difficult, I can only imagine the agony and self-deprecation other men are going through right now.

So it's heresy to say, but Obama needs to stop pandering to women on this War on Women thing and show some empathy for white males. The best way to do it is to throw a punch or two, and it doesn't matter at whom, but give us guys a sense that our pugilistic instincts and punching-people-out-methods of expressing our frustrations are still relevant to the social structure, uh, despite the fact that in all of recorded history and the making of 100 billion people only a pound of sperm has been required, and even that sperm could have been frozen by God and produced the same result.

There is a post on Daily Kos about a new book, "Don't Buy it", by Anat Shenker-Osorio, which caught my eye. It's a take on the poor messaging of Progressives and looks like a terrific read. Perhaps we have the making of a Luntz on our side. She notes that the "you" has dropped from Progressive messaging. "Perhaps the omission is gendered---where masculine-dominated cultures like the Republican Party go to issuing orders, balanced or feminine ones ( like the Democrats) favor airing grievances, opening up possibilities, and not imposing  their views."

What we have here is a feminine Obama Administration.

So Mr. Prez, get your damned act together and punch out the Republicans. "Romney, if you want my Medicare, you'll have to fight me for it."

Or just channel DeNiro:  

"Romney---you lookin' at me?"