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She didn't even misspeak--it was a prompt, factual clarification
If the quote is accurately reported as "...how Senator Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me," Clinton was being precise and accurate.
Leave out the "white" part and not only would the the statement be untrue, it would be insensitive and disrespectfully dismissive of the demographic group that is most solidly behind Obama.
THAT would have been racist.