Excellent post!. Your comment in quotes reminds me humorously of something Dean Martin said about Sammy DAvis Jr.
Frank Sinatra said something about Sammy Davis Jr. sitting at the back of the bus.
Dean Martin said, “Hell, he owned the bus!” :`)
ROFL!
If that were not bad enough, Clinton’s campaign has been pursuing a fairly obvious strategy of having surrogates attack Obama while the campaign itself denies any involvement.
We seem to be at the point where there are now two credible possibilities. One is that the Clinton campaign is intentionally pursuing a strategy of using surrogates to hit Obama with racially-charged language or with charges that while not directly tied to race nonetheless play to stereotypes about black men. The other possibility is that the Clinton campaign is extraordinarily unlucky and continually finds its surrogates stumbling on to racially-charged or denigrating language when discussing Obama.
There has been an entire string of these “gaffes” from Clinton surrogates. What we have here is a deliberately planned campaign of smear.