I feel sorry for the Clintons. This blantant race baiting by the Clintons themselves as well as their campaign, advisors, and supporters---such as the infamous media whore Bob Johnson---is beyond offensive and pathetic. I hope that the black community brings about a reckoning if she is successful in her electronic vote tampering and injection of racial division to steal the democratic nomination. I say it here and I will say it everywhere there is a black pair of ears to hear me. If she gets the nomination in such an unscrupulous and Bushian manner, blacks should vote with all the might and power of their constituency for either Huckabee or Bloomberg. If they can't hold their noses long enough to vote republican, then stay at home on election day in November and don't vote for Hillary at all. MLK and supporters eventually took a stand and stopped riding the bus when forced to sit in the back and black people should not stay on the racist, electronic vote tampering Hillary train in the general election. The Clintons are expecting that no matter what racist, divisive tactics they use against Obama, blacks will have no other choice but to vote democrat; however, there is another choice and it is to not vote for Hillary or at all in a general election. Now is the current generation's time to make a stand against this kind of racism and oppression that the Clintons are harkening us back to. Make a stand against supporting her ilk in November if she steals her way to the nomination with the most deplorable racial tactics.

Bob Novak......the classic Hobbsian man.........Nasty, Butish and Short...............tm

So "vetted" is a code word for race... got it. So where's the column about how "bestiality" is code for gay people?

The standards are so hilariously different for Democrats and Republicans.

Yep, that settles it for me. Novak hates Clinton and likes Obama then I'm for Hillary.

Just kidding, but you have to ask why all the neocons can't wait for Barack to get the nom.

While Novak is certainly a jag-off, his article is right. The thing that I find so crazy is that Hillary and her people actually believe that people are going to forget these things.
It's like the Iraq war votes, and the Iranian Revolutionary guard. Yeah they may not be front page news anymore, but these things have laid the foundation for the larger picture that disturbs so many.
It's kind of Ironic, Everytime I think about Hillary, I get the exact same feeling I had about Bush during the 2000 election.
She's like the "fake liberal" version of Bush.

Bob Novak is not too transparently trying to reignite racial issues. His premise that "vetted" has racial implications is laughably absurd and speaks only to his obsessive need to demonstrate beyond any shadow just how moronic he is.

vetting is a process of examination and evaluation. That's it. Alternatively... to evaluate for possible approval or acceptance Or as it applies to Bob Novak.. to provide veterinary care for.

Perhaps Ms. Huffpost and staff might consider doing a little Vetting of their editorial decisions, instead of allowing the expression of their Obamagenda to eviscerate the remaining credibility of the Huffpost.

It must be a top secret code classified by Cheney for Bob to know what the hell he is talking about. Maybe he should leak the memo so the rest of us could get it.

is it just me, or does simply looking at a picture of this guy make your skin crawl?

bob should stick to conspiring to out cia agents.

he's stretching waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too far here with this "vetted" thing.

From what I surmise HRC is foreshadowing by discussing this 'vetting' issue.

"Obama hasn't been 'vetted' yet", she says.

In other words: be prepared for some suprises on Obama that will suddenly be showing up in the press, leaked to the press, and a lot of nasty/negative spin about him behind the wheel of the spin-masters while he is being 'vetted'.

What comes to my mind, for example, is his church, Trinity United Church of Christ. From what I've read on the church website is a uplifting, positive Christian organization with an emphasis on the African-American community and congression. However, after Obama and his church have been spun through the Clinton machine 'vetting' process the church is a negative organization for black militants, a black supremecy cult.

I wonder just how much more of this sort of 'vetting' candidate Obama has yet to go through?

What baloney! "Vetted" is not an "unusual" word as he claims. Does he think the readers are stupid?

Bet this is seen by millions more than the ProgrASSive obama racist comment that is just a lame attempt at humor and not racist.... You guys are going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory again. Obama and Hillary are the Gore and Kerry of this cycle .

Look, the things people did in childhood are just that childish indiscretions. Harping on the fact that someone of Obama's age who tried drugs during an era in which MOST teens were doing the same thing is just a way to link the minds of racists with Blacks=drug users=drug dealers. I have no doubt that Hillary was, like Bill, not inhaling but those two have the moral ineptness to lie about it for political expediency. First they tried to ruin Obama with toddler-gate by rifling through his kindergarten papers and playing gotcha with a five-year-old's writing that he wanted to be president one day (so he lied because he was planning this move since he was 5...right). Then they repeatedly try to tarnish his image in a racially tinged way with teen-gate; he tried coke as a teen and admitted to inhaling (so he is another black drug abuser and probably sold drugs so media should ask him about drug dealing stat...right). What is next college-gate? Might we learn that Obama skipped classes during his undergraduate years so he is just another lazy negro...right. Stay tuned folks for the next episode of the Clinton Stupidity Show.

Hill's shills may not like it but Novak's article and characterization are both true. As I said before, even a pathological liar tells the truth a few times in his career. Novak hasn't said anything above that intelligent, progressive Americans didn't already know.

DON'T READ ANYTHING NOVAK WRITES.

I never do, including this article.

He is a still a toad for the neocons, PLUS he is a traitor and belongs in prison.