Balanced and actually showed two points of view. Hallelujah someone's listening. Thomas Schaller goes up there with (the few) good writers on this site who actually managed to do some research before just spewing out whatever was on his mind.

Now to proceed to the letter section where I'm sure a war is a-raging over any charge that Hillary Clinton and her campaign could have ever, under any circumstances, made a mistake.

And where we'll have to listen to (the few) psuedo-racists or just plain confused people we all know who always post on here and insist that nothing unfair has ever happened to African-Americans, ever, sexism is the only issue that could possibly matter, Obama's not capable of running a Dairy Queen and Hillary Clinton's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Sigh.

Ok made it through the first few pages of the responses, and they're even worse than I thought they would be.

One bone of contention seems to be that blacks are just voting for the black candidate. A) You have no way of knowing if this is even true, but if they are SO WHAT? How often have whites voted for the most "southern" or "conservative" or "traditional" white candidate.

A number of Americans who initially supported Hillary Clinton have concluded, since this process began, that Obama is in fact the best candidate. She led initially in Iowa. There ain't a lot of black people there. Yet they somehow concluded Obama was the better candidate. Are they racist? Or are white people somehow allowed to change their minds but black voters aren't? What then should African-American voters do? Obama has gained support THROUGHOUT this primary, from white people and black people. Obviously many white people have taken a second look at Obama and decided he's the best candidate. So they can vote for him on this basis, but African Americans can't merely because of the color of their skin? That's stupid, ignorant and slightly racist. (Yes that's right, there's no double-switcheroo here, but those who think African-Americans do not have the same right as caucasians, or Latinos, or Asians, or Jews, or Pacific Islanders or anyone else to change their mind AT THE SAME TIME the rest of the country is changing their mind and vote for the best candidate, be he whatever color, are in fact being racist. Sorry but you are.)

Please. Give me a break. A large number of white voters have, repeatedly, voted for the white candidate who holds the strongest to what is traditionally believed to have been "white" values. This is what half the Republican Party built itself on. And now you're mad because blacks have the sense to vote for the first black candidate?

And I'd like to point out a large percentage of Hillary Clinton's votes are coming from white voters who admit they're scared of voting for a black candidate. I'm not screaming about that. Fine. That's their right.

If you want to tell ALL voters you know what's best for them, fine.

If you want to tell POOR voters you know what's best for them, great.

But if you want to tell a select race of people, whom you are not a part of, that you know specifically what is best for them and they are somehow too dumb to realize it, you're bordering on what I'll mildly term an overbearing superiority complex and some odd racial views.

You really shouldn't tell another race you know what's best for them. Particularly if you're from a part of the country that had a history of telling them this and then denying them their basic human rights which they too fought in every major American war and worked the same land (in some cases worked the land for the owner who did nothing but abuse them) that any other racial group did.

I'm sorry but white voters don't know what's best for blacks. We have to get over this notion that it is okay to somehow "instruct" black people on how to vote and that you "know more than they do."

Now if you want to tell poor people, based on their economic interests, you know what's best for them go for it. But you cannot tell any racial group in this country, which enjoys a wide variety within every race, that you know what's best for them. That's paternalisitc and somewhat reminiscient of a slave society.

There are few examples of any society telling a select race they know what's best for them. I would also urge you not to make that argument to any Native Americans (genocide), Latinos (we have some definite nativist/racist/inferiority stereotypes with regards to immingration), Asian Americas (who built the transcontinental railroad that united this country while being treated as inferior), Jewish (we also have a sad legacy of anti-Semitism in this country) or any other ethnic group.

Tell them your candidate is the best period. Don't tell them he or she is the best specifically for their race and you know this because you know more than them. It demeans everyone.