Given the emotional, personality-based
childishness of both media and public response to
these distractions, they have a certain efficacy
independent of reason. I am rather indifferent
to the allegedly offensive remarks of all these
people. However, given the way things are, they
have a dra
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March 13, 2008
Democrats Face Racial Issue Again
By PATRICK HEALY and JEFF ZELENY
New York Times
After the Democratic primary in South Carolina turned racially divisive in
January, Senators Hillary Ro
