Prometheus 6

Then I saw this.

The playing of the race card by Hillary Clinton’s surrogates to diminish Barack Obama was sinister. But the Clintons are hardly bigots, and the Democratic candidates all have a history of fighting strenuously for inclusiveness.

It was a pretty major batle to get folks to admit it was, indeed, the race card the Clintons played. It was a major struggle just to talk about it, even for me. I can't tell you how many posts I've written over the past two weeks that were full of elliptical metaphors for race, racism and bigotry that I had to go back and clean up before you saw them.

Here's my question for Democrats: if they are not bigots, why did they play on white folks' racial fears? Because that is the underlying meaning of "play the race card," no matter who plays it.

Now. Here's that cool title.

Ronald Reagan Is Still Dead
By FRANK RICH