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Race Man

By The Daily Dish
Feb 28 2008, 12:37 PM ET

I read this Sean Wilentz piece twice to try and figure out how he construes the facts he relays in the piece to prove his thesis that the Obama campaign has been race-baiting. You try. He seems to see no distinction between members of the press and the Obama campaign itself. And he seems completely unaware that the reaction to both Clintons' racially-charged comments came first from the black community, which had been remarkably pro-Clinton until that point. Who is a better judge of race-baiting? African-Americans or a Clintonite like Wilentz? I should add that I don't think Hillary was guilty of much more than unconscious racial condescension. But Bill? That Jesse Jackson comment? C'mon.



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