Originally published at the Washington Independent

Until his pastor's most incendiary sound bites re-circulated on the web, Sen. Barack Obama had managed to be the "post-racial," "post-partisan" candidate to all America--an unimposing black buddy some white men never had, an attraction to women across racial and ethnic lines. But...

The knock on the Clintons -- the candidacy as well as the campaign -- has always been that they would say anything to get elected and exploit divisions rather than build bridges. Both of those traits were on fatalistic display when Geraldine Ferraro recently asserted that Barack Obama is...