Monday, August 4, 2008

The Return of Racial Politics By Jacob Laksin

When Bill Clinton likened Barack Obama to Rev. Jesse Jackson during the Democratic primaries, he was pilloried as a racial agitator. How dare the former president imply that Obama – the great hope of “post-racial” politics – belonged in the same mold as race-baiting hucksters like Jackson? But mounting evidence from the campaign trail seems to vindicate Clinton’s comparison.

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