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Evidence Of Racism (Or Not)

Politico reports this morning that ?Race-card flap reopens Clinton camp wounds.?

?I am not a racist,? Clinton said Monday in a testy interview with ABC News in Monrovia, Liberia, in response to a question that wasn?t quite related to that subject. ?I?ve never made a racist comment and I never attacked [Obama] personally.?

Doesn?t this imply that Clinton agrees that it would be racist to attack (maybe even criticize) Obama personally?

Obama himself never suggested that the Clintons had harbored racial animus, though his campaign did at least once make that case to the media, and some of his supporters overtly denounced the former president. Former Clinton aides acknowledge that Bill Clinton, particularly in comparing Obama?s South Carolina win to Jesse Jackson?s victory, all but invited the charge from Obama?s allies.

I must confess that I never understood how it was racist to compare Obama, a black man who won an overwhelming percentage of the black vote in the South Carolina primary, to Jesse Jackson, a black man who won an overwhelming percentage of the vote in the South Carolina primary.

Maybe some angry Obamanaut or guilty Clintonista can explain it to me.

Full post as published by Discriminations on August 05, 2008 (boomark / email).