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"The last thing we need is a President who encourages festering racial controversies."

By Ann Althouse

Writes Glenn Reynolds, observing Barack Obama.

You know, I've noted before that if Hillary attacks Obama too hard she risks losing black supporters -- and others who've invested in Obama. But it works both ways -- if Obama looks too much like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, or even like he's too close to those two politically, he'll lose a lot of people who've rallied to him precisely because he promised "a new kind of politics." You can't run as a uniter, and engage in racial politicking at the same time. Well, you can -- but it won't work very well.

Unless it does. You just have to get enough people to think you're not really the one raising the subject ? which is the game Hillary herself is playing. Oh, but politics isn't a game. It's about people.

Full post as published by Althouse on January 14, 2008 (boomark / email).