I can't let this pass by without commenting on it. I do think the media is somewhat overblowing the issue of most of Hillary and Bill's comments about Martin Luther King, LBJ, and Obama. But let's not kid ourselves. The Clintons boast of their experience. And they have it! So they know all the "codes," especially in the South. The LBJ and "fantasy" quotes were pretty tame. It was the "kid" comment, when Bill called Obama a "kid" that I thought really crossed the line.http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/01/the-bill-factor.html

Let's be honest here - that is just a a hop, step and a jump - no, I'm wrong about that - it's just a hop from calling him a "boy."

But, when the network TV media has been covering the issue, the Clip of Bill that plays most of the time is the "fantasy" clip - where Bill said that Obama's campaign of Hope was a fantasy. That's almost within the bounds of an acceptable presidential campaign. But calling Obama a "kid" is way out of bounds. So why isn't the mainstream media airing that clip repeatedly? That clip played repeatedly on the mainstream media would sink Hillary with the African American community. Do they not deserve to know what is being said to and about them?

No doubt Bill and Hillary have a lot of political capital built up in the African-American community. Afterall, wasn't Bill the "first Black President?" I never knew exactly what was meant by that, but I heard it a bunch. Toni Morrison is quoted as saying it. So, with all that political capital saved up, could Bill have known that if he spoke in code, and didn't go too far, that he could avoid a complete alienation of a certain percent of the African American vote while insuring a certain percent of the right hand side of the southern democrats - the so-called "Reagan Democrats" - would move their way?

I think, looking at some of the other compromising that Bill made in his political life, that he could do it. The other explanation is that he didn't realize what he was saying by using the term "kid" to describe Obama, and that he "just blurted it out." Oh yeah? The acclaimed number one political mind of modern America?

Of course no one is ever going to admit to playing those kinds of political cards. But, then again, it depends what the meaning of the "is" "is," isn't it? The mainstream media is trying hard to suck Obama into this fray. He's trying to stay out of it. The mainstream media has a lot of power however, and they are huge corporations, and the corporations would prefer Hillary as the Democrat to emerge. I'm not sure Obama is ready to take on the corporations, but I think he has a fresher vision about the scene than the Clintons, and while I think there are better candidates out there in other parties, the way our system is set up, the high likelihood is that either a Democrat or Republican is going to win the presidency. If you narrow down the chase to that, I still think Obama is going to emerge. We'll see. I've definitely been wrong before.