Clinton, Obama Step Back From Race Flap by David Espo (AP)

[veldamorgan]

Obama was the first to suggest a cooling of the rhetoric on race, calling reporters together to say he didn't want the campaign "to degenerate into so much tit-for-tat, back-and-forth that we lose sight of why all of us are doing this."Referring to Clinton and former Sen. John Edwards, he said that while they may have disagreements, "we share the

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"Strikingly, though, one of Clinton's supporters, New York Rep. Charles Rangel, was sharply critical of Obama in an interview during the day. "How race got into this thing is because Obama said 'race,'" Rangel, the dean of the Congressional Black Caucus, said on television station NY1."

durrr. yes, obama forced clinton to compare herself to a LBJ over MLK Jr.

i hated this whole fiasco, but that's just dumb on rangel's part.

(psst sorry if i spammed your inbox - html kept messing up, and i don't have comment edits. :)

[veldamorgan]

Yeah, somehow I have a hard time believing her supporters are all so out of control that they randomly repeat things she's had to disavow. I just wonder what the next stupid maneuver will be. That Clinton Machine looks more and more like an old rustbucket every day.