And By "Identity" We Mean "Black People"

Lurking near the end of Tom Edsall's excellent piece on the Clinton campaign's efforts to retool we get this WTF moment: "In private, some of Clinton's supporters are deeply disdainful of Obama. 'He is the candidate of the "identity left",' said one, dismissively." These sound like some talking points straight outta 1988 to me.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/01/and-by-identity-we-mean-black-people/47790/