Hillary has enough unethical, low-life tactics to use without resorting to race.
America is 13% black, and blacks vote overwhelmingly for the Democrats, on the order of 80%. And they are not evenly distributed, being concentrated in Northern cities and in the South.
Were Hillary really to do as Gary Younge says, she would start the November race having lost several states.
Her basic approach is to behave ruthlessly and make Obama upset, standoffish, and awkward about her behavior. He is a far more thoughtful and decent-minded person than she, and he is repulsed by such behavior, as am I and many, many others.
Obama has genuinely tried to run a campaign of which he could be proud, a rare thing in American national politics, still pretty much in the Political Stone Age.
But Obama faces a terrible dilemma when confronted by an opponent willing to say close to anything to win. Hillary truly has proven herself an Appalachian throwback, a grinning political predator exactly in the tradition of Richard Nixon.
But although "playing the race card" is one thing a Democrat is not likely to do, I am encouraged that Gary Younge believes otherwise.
If that nasty piece of work, Hillary, manages to win the nomination, I can only wish John McCain, despite his many faults, wins. She has proven herself, in a fairly short period, every bit as loathsome as Bush.
It is unforgivable and shocking beyond words that she threatened the lives of eighty million people on the morning of the Pennsylvania primary. And her ad with Osama’s image is in the disgusting tradition of the infamous Willy Horton ad. These are the behaviors of a low-grade psychopath, the kind of individual who has been president for more than seven years.
