ABC News is reporting that Ted Kennedy is going to endorse Barack Obama. That puts Kennedy in the same camp as the likes of John Kerry, Pat Leahy, and Tom Daschle, people who served with Hillary Clinton in the Senate and are now backing Obama.
Apparently Bill Clinton has compared Obama's victory in South Carolina yesterday to Jesse Jackson's victories in the same state in 1984 and 1988. ABC's Jake Tapper smells a rat:
Said Bill Clinton today in Columbia, SC: "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here."
This was in response to a question from ABC News' David Wright about it taking "two Clintons to beat" Obama. Jackson had not been mentioned.
Boy, I can't understand why anyone would think the Clintons are running a race-baiting campaign to paint Obama as "the black candidate."
NRO's Shannon Coffin is even less kind to the Clintons:
Bill and Hillary Clinton successfully manipulated minorities to their benefit for a decade, and now that they (yes, they) are running against a minority candidate, they are playing a sickening game of racial innuendo against him. One would hope that the black community and the rest of the American public would take note. The Jesse Jackson observation is part of a programmatic effort at racebaiting, all while maintaining plausible deniability. But as the evidence mounts, it cannot be denied.
South Carolina adds to the evidence that the nation is heading toward a Democratic sweep this fall. The Washington Post notes that more people voted in the Democratic primary than in the Republican primary in South Carolina. While there are explanations for this, it does show that all the energy is on the Democratic side. If the Republicans have to fight to hold South Carolina then they have no hope of winning in November. But that is a long time from now.
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