Video - Hillary Clinton boasts of support from "white Americans"

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Obama Ahead Among Lethargic Minorities, Apparently [Race-baiting]
Published 5/9/2008 by Ryan Tate at Gawker
Declared-dead Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton seems intent on nailing shut her campaign's coffin. Here's what she just told a USA Today reporter: "'I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on.' ...As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article 'that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.'" UPDATE: There's a recording of Clinton saying this to the reporter, after the jump [USA ...

Bob Ostertag: Hillary Clinton's Legacy
Published 5/10/2008 by Bob Ostertag at Huffington Post Entertainment Blog
Two months ago I wrote about the emerging parallels between the bitterness of the current Democratic primary and the split between early white women's rights activists and abolitionists after the Civil War. With the campaign of Hillary Clinton sputtering to its final end, it is appropriate to revisit these issue and see if the disturbing parallels I pointed out have increased or decreased in relevancy since March. Unfortunately, the historic parallels have only become stronger, and are nearly perfectly crystallized in yesterday's New York Times op-ed by Susan Faludi, the award-winning white feminist author, congratulating Clinton for running a campaign ...