It began with Bill Clinton implying that Barack Obama only won South Carolina because he was black. Completely unprompted.
It continued when a member of the Clinton campaign released this photo of Barack Obama while simultaneously starting a whisper campaign that Obama is a Muslim.
She then followed up saying that he's not a Muslim "as far as she knows" when she could have definitively put a stop to it.
Now it's finally gone from veiled to blatant with Geraldine Ferraro, a Clinton supporter and former vice-presidential nominee, coming out and saying that Barack Obama would not be in his current position if he wasn't black. That statement was bad enough. Stupid enough. But much worse, after the fact she had the gumption to go after the Obama campaign for saying that she made a racist comment, saying that they are attacking her because she's white. What??
Here she is on the Nightly News calling for the Obama camp to apologize to her.
And here's Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment" on it.
Kudos to Olbermann for saying what many people feel. Hillary Clinton's kitchen sink approach will not only lose her the nomination and kill the Clinton name, it will severely damage the Democratic party.
If Hillary wins, she will no doubt lose to McCain as there are very few self-respecting African Americans who would be willing to support her after she, no doubt, stole the campaign from Obama. If Obama wins, he will be a beaten and bloodied figure standing up against a John McCain who will have had months of negative campaigning already done for him.
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