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came not from Clinton, but Post columnist Eugene Robinson.
He is really hell-bent are sliming Clinton for his comments on Jesse Jackson. But look what he said a in the summer of 2007.
ROBINSON (7/31/07): [I]sn't Obama at least a bit concerned that black voters might succumb to a kind of historical fatalism about how race works in America?
"What I see is a lot of press fascination with a black candidate who does not yet have 100 percent of the African American vote," Obama said yesterday in a telephone interview. "It's fascinating to me that people would expect that somehow I would be getting unanimous black support at this stage of the campaign, when probably only about 50 percent of black voters know much about me at all."
Obama pointed out that "black folks have known the Clintons for a long time." He also noted that when he ran for the U.S. Senate, his poll numbers among African Americans started low but later went stratospheric as voters got to know him.
Still, the Obama campaign recognizes the importance of South Carolina as the first primary state with a substantial African American electorate. A win there could resonate in other states where the black vote will be a key factor in the Democratic primary. A bad loss in South Carolina would resonate, too—not in a good way, from Obama's point of view.
Tell me this is not guilty of the very thing he criticize Clinton for.
CONCULSION: EUGENE ROBINSON was playing the race card and his criticism of Clinton is very hollow and hypocritical.
