Obama, Clinton, the Democratic Party, and the Race Card…

Gene Lyons, in The Cagle Post:

This because under the politically correct rules of engagement preferred by the Obama camp, only the Illinois senator gets to make ex cathedra observations about such ticklish matters as race and class, which must be treated as infallible. Pundits like Herbert and the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson have been chattering about the so-called “Bradley effect” ever since New Hampshire, but the Clinton camp must not.

Why not? Because contrary to conventional wisdom, it wasn’t the Clintons who “racialized” the contest at all. It was the Obama campaign, seemingly for the sake of galvanizing African-American voters in must-win South Carolina. (See Princeton historian Sean Wilentz’s article “Race Man: How Barack Obama Played the Race Card and Blamed Hillary Clinton,” in The New Republic.)