Sabotaging Hope and Destroying Unity

The Nation's Betsy Reed illustrates, in a long but worthwhile read, how the Clinton campaign has sewn division amongst the Democratic base by bringing race into play during the primaries in an increasingly-desperate attempt to make Hilary appear the more electable nominee, while at the same time taking the all-too-predictable cheap shots from the right because of her gender.

Should McCain and the GOP take the White House again in November, despite the appalling mismanagement, corruption and outright criminality of the last eight years of George W. Bush's administration, it may be that they will have had the groundwork laid by the Clinton campaign to thank for it. As the saying goes, "With friends like this..."

THIS JUST IN: an editorial in today's New York Times seems to agree.