The Clinton camp indirectly plays the race card today when one of their surrogates started talking about Obama's past.
Congressman Bob Johnson's comments got the national media and punditry talking about race. The Clinton camp won this news cycle.
In the 2006 Senatorial election in Tennessee, when the national media came into the state and started talking about race, Harold Ford, Jr. suffered:
Before the Senate election became the hottest in the country, race was scarcely mentioned. If the national media hadn't interfered in the race Harold Ford, Jr. may very well have won that race.
The last thing Barack Obama wants is the national media talking about him being black.
i think it is disingenious and feculent for a man to say he has a problem with a person history of drug use who made billions of of videos of young black men talkin about kiling and drug dealing...just another factor I believe that is leading to the fall of America.... poor mr or mrs next president
Posted by: rawdawgbuffalo | January 14, 2008 6:06 PM | Permalink to Comment