Letters to the Editor
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She doesn't have to apologize, but she IS wrong
From what I can see of his background, Obama gotten where he has on his own steam, and I really don't think he's gotten a "break" politically by being part African. If ANYTHING it would have been a lot harder initially to even get into politics, and taken seriously by that establishment. That he's done so well is not because people have given him breaks based on his race. I'd argue the opposite. I think he's done very well in SPITE of his race, and people's negative attitudes towards people who aren't white.
Clinton on the other hand emerged into politics, after relative obscurity, in a Senate run immediately following her husband's rise to President. So, if anyone has gotten to ride the coat-tails of someone else, it is HER. I do not think she's gotten where she is on her own steam -- I think she has gotten quite a big break by being part of Brand Clinton, and so her staffers should think long and hard about the allegations they are making about others.