I, as I think many others, do not believe for one minute that Hillary or Bill or any of her surrogates are racist. However, I do believe that she is as Keith O has eloquently stated, is allowing her camp to play the race as well as other low blow cards (playing into various fear mongering stereotypes) about Sen. Obama.
This is where I think many in the stupid punditry class are missing the real reason for the overwhelming support of African Americans for Obama at the polls. It is not because he is Black because if that were true Al Sharpton would have done better at the polls by about 50 percentage points. The reason is that the Democratic base, African Americans, see the Clinton camp, with the outrage that Keith describes, as hitting Obama like a Republican, and this is the most offensive and unforgivable.
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