Used to respect Frank Rich. But this column seems like nothing but a dumb long winded rant.

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 AGAINST Hillary. If they can't hold their noses long enough to vote independent or 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.

Just another bash Clinton article by the media. Sometimes I wish these assholes would fired to stop them from reporting their biases. This was the same crap that got George Bush elected in 2000 and reelected in 2004. Whatever happened to objective reporting. It is a sad day to see reporting going the way of FOX News. These news outlets are openly backing candidates and promoting these canadidates. Do they think we stupid? I guess we are!

The picture makes me think Obama and Clinton are about to make out. That should really help the Clintons with the black folks if Hillary makes out with Obama. :-)

The funny thing is - Obama is whoop'in up on the Clintons pretty good - yet Hillary's questioning wether Barack could handle McCain.

I think Billary should concern themselves with the fight their LOSING RIGHT NOW, instead of shrilling about how they 'won't get knocked-out' & 'are ready to take on McCain anywhere, anytime".

The Billary campaign is getting its clock cleaned by the junior senator from Illinois.

My advice to them, get up off the ground, pick you teeth up, & get ready for some more a$$ whoop'in from Barack.

Go Obama!!

Indeed. And the NY TImes endorsed her....funny that.

Yes even if this hadn't made to print the thing about Hillary is that she seems disingenuous; we all know that Bill certainly is. There is no generosity, no greater good no fair fight...no using your wits...just constant manipulation and chicanery...no wonder Bill has been able to work well with the Bushes, and said that Bush senior would have a position in Hillary's administration...they are of the same corrupt ilk.

Can you smell that,..........that foul odor?? Sure you can.

Know what it is?? It's the stench of corruption, which follows the Clintons wherever they go.

If you like that foul odor & want to smell it for 4+ years - then vote for Billary.

I personally think we can & do deserve better!

Obama 08!!

I wonder if Hillary will write another letter demanding that he be fired?

I was at the assembly of the Los Angeles town hall. We had people of every color, age, persuasion - many were volunteers who were informed the night before of the event. As they did across the nation - we each wrote a question, 5 questions were picked at random out of a hat, and then everyone voted on the top question to be asked by the person who wrote it for their city. This was the method employed "to be fair" - how ironic that crazy, antagonistic Frank Rich would be frothing at the mouth to denounce this fairness as bias - without knowing or even questioning the method employed. What assumption! I don't know the effect this event had upon the multitudes, I can tell you it surely galvanized us, Senator Clinton's supporters. And I found the event and Senator Clinton's tireless and substantive answers fascinating. Also, I would not call the emcee a 'servile' position - that's just frankly insane, Mr. Rich.

The conventional wisdom adopted by the mainstream media, and Frank Rich ("a Clinton combine so ruthless that it risked shredding three decades of mutual affection with black America") asserts that Bill and Hillary Clinton overstepped, went a "bit too far," or even outright invoked racist sleights against Obama. That presumption has been so ingrained, to the point that there is no need or effort to elaborate with specifics, what the Clinton trespasses were. It has become a simple concession, the new Clinton mythology, with no required inspection.

In fact it seems that the Obama campaign has purposely promoted these notions choosing to paint Bill and Hillary"s statements with the taint of racial prejudice. In that way Obama"s campaign has established a sort of teflon posture such that any criticism thrust against Obama is presumed race based, and out of bounds, and precludes his need to defend with substance against the actual implications of Bill and Hillary"s assertions. The mainstream media, who have a long and less than endearing capacity to jump on a bandwagon, have willingly furthered this notion.

In 2000, the media furthered the framing by Karl Rove of Al Gore, that he had a "Pinochio Problem." In 2004, the media furthered the framing by Karl Rove that Kerry was an elitist and "flip-flopper." In 2008 they have adopted the Obama notion that Bill and Hillary have played the race card, without ever explaining this unfounded position. Bill & Hillary Clinton are not racist. They are not playing hardball. They are not Billary as Maureen Dowd"s anti-Hillary fixation seems to dictate. And Bill is right, that Obama has been given a pass by the press

Something in this article just rings true to me... but I really want to cast my vote for A Woman. I dont believe she has "found her own voice" though I wish it were true.

When someone is bought and paid for like Hillary, what do you expect? Naturally this will f**k up Chris Matthews ultimate dream of a job in Hillary's Administration. So now he'll kiss up to Obama's campaign chairman instead. But, that won't gurantee Shuster Matthew's job on Hardball. Because once you piss off Hillary you're scum for life. Unless you work at Fox. Which means you were scum already to begin with.

Adding a new headline to Rich's article is low down and dirty. And you people critisize Hillary?? Rich never used those words in his article, but somehow they are huffpo's headline for the piece. This is despicable. If this is how the Obama camp operates, how is he changing the face of politics in America???? New? Change? Searching for our better selves???? Pulleeaaassseeee!

I read his oped piece in full earlier today and it blew me away... sadly I had to agree with most of it. How did HRC let the Clinton name become so tarnished in this race I will never know, I thought she could run a smarter race than that.

Well, golly. HuffPo must be onto something. I mean, look at those who agree with Arianna - Frank Rich, Nikki Kristof, Bill O'Reilly. I mean with journalists like this, how could you possibly go wrong?