Bill's behavior reminds me of Achilles sitting out the first 2/3 of the Trojan War. Clinton should be calling out McCain right now, who's been encouraged by the polls to keep savaging Barack.
Oh, and to say what goes without saying: while we may agree that Obama's recent comments were a tactical mistake, can we also acknowledge that on a larger level, it is absurd and offensive that in our country, we are more likely to scold individuals for "playing the race card" than we are to acknowledge deep-seated, unresolved, structural racism (witness Katrina)? You'd think being black were somehow a tremendous advantage for most people.
Not that's not perfectly plausible to accuse McCain himself of racism, since he cannot name one thing he has done for African-Americans and voted against the MLK holiday and opposed it in AZ.
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