You're absolutely right.

But there's one thing even worse, and that's poor reporting.

It is excellent

How can you claim that race-baiting is an integral part of his strategy with a straight face?

He never positioned himself as the Black candidate and it is stupid to believe that he could position himself as a Black candidate and still win Iowa and Wyoming. He knows that, we know that and that is why your argument is so wrong. There is also no proof for your arguments.

That memo in SC backfired as it should have and he distanced himself from it. There is no reason to believe that it was a campaign strategy, it was just a stupid mistake by a local campaigner. If we wouldn't give our candidates any benefit of the doubt, Hillary Clinton would never even have dared to run in this primary, given all the baggage she carries.

and her supporters.

Obama has gone out of his way not to run as the "black candidate" -- while Team Clinton has done everything in their power to make him the "black candidate"... then - when they get pushback, they cry "reverse racism".

It's shameful.

I'm glad justice is being served and Clinton is LOSING, will continue TO LOSE, and will be remembered as a footnote, as the LOSER of the 2008 Democratic primary....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/ 23601329#23601329

Yep.  On the run up to South Carolina, JJJ made the first racist statement, saying Hillary dissed the people of SC because she didn't cry over Katrina.

THAT'S WHEN THIS ELECTION BECAME RACIST.

How sick and disgusting that Camp Obama then said Clintons were playing the race card.

Here is a video Rev. Wright saying Hillary shouldnt' be president because she's never been called a nigger.  Obama's close spiritual advisor, friend, and the guy who's performed all the religious ceremonies for the obamas..

He transcends race?  Yeah, right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPjVp3PLn Vs

This is the dumbest diary I have ever read.

Hold On--'3 A.M.' Wasn't Racist  by Sean Wilentz
Obama supporters cry wolf on race again.

Reading Orlando Patterson's op-ed in the New York Times, "The Red Phone in Black and White," is a depressing experience.  Not only does the piece scurrilously accuse Hillary Clinton's campaign of cutting an ad that borrows from the filmmaker D.W. Griffith's glorification of the Ku Klux Klan. Not only is this attack based on a Clinton advertisement about national security, not domestic policy (let alone race), that required a singularly tortured and biased "close reading" by Patterson to reach its conclusions. What is truly depressing is that the essay fits what has become a troubling and familiar pattern by the Obama campaign and its fervent supporters to inject racial politics on the eve of yet another Democratic primary in a Southern state, in this case Mississippi, where African-American voters are expected to vote in large numbers.

I described this pattern on February 27, accounting for how the Obama campaign has cleverly played what I called the "race-baiter card"--and yet blamed Hillary Clinton.  These efforts, undertaken both by Obama's own campaign and its boosters in the press, escalated after Clinton's surprising win in New Hampshire and in the build-up to the South Carolina primary.  To recount the ugliness: Obama--through his national co-chair, Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr.--accused Clinton of studied callousness toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina; his press supporters falsely ascribed her victory to racism among New Hampshire's Democratic voters; the Obama campaign then went on to seize upon non-controversial and historically accurate statements by Bill and Hillary Clinton (as in the notorious Martin Luther King-Lyndon Johnson episode, fully discredited by Bill Moyers and others) and called them inflammatory race-baiting.

Now, in anticipation of the Mississippi primary, it's happening again.  In Texas, Ohio, and Rhode Island on March 4, as earlier in New Hampshire, the Obama campaign did not achieve the knock-out blow it expected and predicted. Indeed, just before those primaries and since, Obama's camp started to receive serious criticism and scrutiny for the first time, over the candidate's connections to indicted Chicago fixer Tony Rezko, and over the amateurish and revealing actions of senior advisers Austan Goolsbee, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power. The campaign has turned to double-talk and to stonewalling the press. And once again, it has lashed out by playing racial politics while accusing the Clinton campaign of playing the very same game.

Interpreting the Clinton 3 A.M. phone ad on preparedness and national security as a hidden appeal to white racism takes a remarkable bit of bad faith on the part of Professor Patterson. But the bad faith is not restricted to him alone. Earlier in the campaign, in speeches to black audiences, Obama mouthed lines generally believed to come from Malcolm X about how African Americans were being "bamboozled" and "hoodwinked" by white oppressors and Uncle Toms--except that the lines were not actually Malcolm's but were scripted for  Denzel Washington playing Malcolm X in Spike Lee's movie. Now, in Mississippi, Obama is talking about blacks being bamboozled and hoodwinked again. Then, after Obama conceded that Clinton had nothing to do with the ridiculous posting on the disreputable Drudge Report of a picture of Obama in ceremonial Somali dress--supposedly an appeal to racial and religious fears--he now is telling the voters of Mississippi that in fact she was responsible for the photo's appearance, and that she did it in order to scare people--a charge he well knows to be untrue.  In the televised debate in Ohio on February 26, Obama said that "I take Senator Clinton at her word that she knew nothing about the photo.  So I think that's something that we can set aside."

But on March 10 in Jackson, Mississippi, he declared, "When in the midst of a campaign you decide to throw the kitchen sink at your opponent because you're behind, and your campaign starts leaking photographs of me when I'm traveling overseas wearing the native clothes of those folks to make people afraid ... that's not real change"

The flip-flopping is bad enough, even if the press corps does not always report it. But the cynical race politics by Obama and his passionate followers, is toxic, not just for this campaign but for American political life.

exactly:

"In SC the first state with a large AA population, they had to break the bond between the Clintons and AAs. That's where the four page memo from Obama's campaign characterizing statements they claimed the Clinton Campaign had made about race comes in. It seems to me that this race-baiting was an essential part of his core campaign strategy. Without extremely high AA vote totals his whole strategy would fall apart."

Where can one get a copy of the 4-page memo?

So true, this racial component of the Obama campaign will come back to haunt him.  The very fact that 91% of AAs are voting for Obama is an indignation that they support him because of his race.  Now comes the backlash.  When white America sees this kind of thing, there are some who respond with intelligence but there are a large portion of people who respond in the negative.  Obama is using the AA community.  He is bamboozling them.  The Clintons are not racist and to accuse them of it is not only wrong but will open up racial divides that will not win Obama the White House but deny him the very support he would need in the fall.  It is a short sighted and disingenious for him to do it, but it is even more disturbing for AA commentators to insult Clinton with abandon and think that is fine, but to even criticize Obama for anything at all is racist.  That will cause a bad feeling that cannot be fixed by Nov.  The toxic quality will be reflected in the voting booth.  Obama supporters have accused people at caucuses if they did not support Obama of being racists which is offensive but will not gain him the necessary votes he wants.  In fact this will make many Americans feel a real sense that if the AA community can be racist then it is fine for them to be against Obama for the same reason, which they should not be but will be.

Right now many Americans are feeling insecure.  They are insecure about the economy as well as about national security.  This insecurity will be more pronounced when it comes to Obama because he is an unknown quantity.  The racial tones will make many Americans feel that he could represent some kind of insecurity there as well and that will condemn his candidacy in the end and cause those who might be willing to take a risk with him to just say no, to not be willing to take that added risk.  The Obama campaign is playing for short term gain, but it will be a long term loss.  Not just for Obama but for Clinton as well.  This kind of politics is a divisive and destructive thing and will be a losing factor this fall.  It is a shame that Obama will not only doom his chances but the democratic party with him.  AA politicians due themselves and Obama a disservice if they don't speak up against this kind of thing. I admire those who take a principled stand against the labeling of Hillary Clinton as any kind of a racist.  It is wrong and it should be stopped by those with the power to speak up instead of doing the expeditious thing and just back Obama because of his race.  I admire and respect the AA politicians who are standing up for Clinton at this time.  I just wish there were commentators who would do the same thing instead of this constant trashing of her.  They are engendering feelings that will be hard to undo.  I also do not find those who claim some outrage against Obama and attack anyone who finds Obama to be less qualified as if that is somehow racist.  It is offensive in the extreme.