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And I don't believe for a second that anyone in the Obama campaign wanted the primaries to be about race.
After Iowa, blacks started moving into the Obama column. His campaign didn't need or want to make race an issue.
Joan, you'll have to tell me what president Clinton meant when he said the Jesse Jackson had won SC too. Was Jesse Jackson the only Democratic nominee in the history of the primary to win SC and lose the nomination? NO.
So why Jesse Jackson?
The Clintons may not be racist, but they certainly used latent racism in "working class" areas to their advantage.
Oh, but it's Obama's fault racism was injected into the campaign, even though it hurt him badly in the last legs of the campaign.
