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Hillary's reckless exploitation of racial division could split the Democratic Party over race -- a tragic legacy for the Clintons.
  • JOE CONASON must be nuts

    Joe Conason, for completely mysterious reasons, succumbs to a completely absurd and spurious case against people I thought were his freinds, probably getting hustled and intimidated into doing it, by an increasingly ugly, vicious, ongoing and determined effort on the part of the Obama cult, to force, by sheer repetition, a big lie onto the electorte: namely that the Clinton's are racists.

    This is, far and away, the most egregious treachery committed by the Obama campaign, and one of the few reasons why he has made the most powerful opposition to his campaign necessary and inevitable. In the course of his silly rant, near the end, Conason, makes the very same statement himself, remarking that her (Hillary's) "...chances of building an electoral college vote may well be better than his are, owing to his difficulty in attracting White working class voters(!)" Huh! That's all Hillary has been saying. How is it not racist for Conason to say this, but it is racist for Hillary to say it? How on earth can a candidate speak of her opponent's inability to secure votes in an important sector of the population, without identifying that sector? And, if that sector is identifiable only be race, what choices are left for the candidate? The candidate must choose, between suffering a loss of an important sector of voters, or be accused, completly unfairly and unjustly, of being racist.