Letters to the Editor
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AKA Smith
If you can claim Obama supporters are a nasty lot I can respond by pointing out cases where Hillary supporters have been just as bad if not worse.
You might not have any power over what other posters of your political alignment say or do, but you cannot claim moral superiority to your side when it has engaged in pretty much the same thing.
For every bad thing you have to say about Obama and his supporters I can respond with bad things about Hillary and her supporters.
Now Hillary can repair the damage fairly easily: Simply come out and clarify her statement. A "I appologise for how I said that, I did not mean to imply that black and educated voters aren't hard working Americans" and while her hopes in this election may be done, the degree of hard feelings over it would fade to some extent.
Heck an appology, if heartfelt and eloquent enough may even help her more than the statement hurt her - she might actually start winning over a little bit of the black vote that feels she has no interest in them.