Letters to the Editor
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@i'drather not
You say: "If Obama actually benefits from being the black candidate, what is the problem with that?"
You're missing the point here: Obama is benefiting at the expense of the Clintons, and in a highly public, unscrupulous manner. If the price of Obama winning is the trashing of the Clintons's integrity and respective reputations on matters racial, then the price is not only way too high, but ugly in the bargain. So ugly that, Supreme Court and Iraq be damned, I will almost certainly not be able to vote for him if he becomes the Demo candidate. This is as down and dirty a primary as I've ever seen, giving the lie to Obama's very tired theme of hope and change. It's entirely possible that one day, he will be viewed as the Ralph Nader of this election, not the Messiah from the South Side. I'm not only angry about the corner Obama has backed too many of us into, I'm deeply saddened.