Race Man
by Sean Wilentz February 27, 2008
How Barack Obama played the race card and blamed Hillary Clinton.
The New Republic


How Barack Obama played the race card and blamed Hillary Clinton.

Misleading propaganda is hardly new in American politics -- [A]s insidious as these tactics are, though, the Obama campaign's most effective gambits have been far more egregious and dangerous than the hypocritical deployment of deceptive and disingenuous attack ads. To a large degree, the campaign's strategists turned the primary and caucus race to their advantage when they deliberately, falsely, a...

Race Man
by Sean Wilentz February 27, 2008
How Barack Obama played the race card and blamed Hillary Clinton.
The New Republic


How Barack Obama played the race card and blamed Hillary Clinton.

Misleading propaganda is hardly new in American politics -- [A]s insidious as these tactics are, though, the Obama campaign's most effective gambits have been far more egregious and dangerous than the hypocritical deployment of deceptive and disingenuous attack ads. To a large degree, the campaign's strategists turned the primary and caucus race to their advantage when they deliberately, falsely, and successfully portrayed Clinton and her campaign as unscrupulous race-baiters--a campaign-within-the-campaign in which the worked-up flap over the Somali costume photograph is but the latest episode. While promoting Obama as a "post-racial" figure, his campaign has purposefully polluted the contest with a new strain of what historically has been the most toxic poison in American politics.

This is an extremely worthwhile read, although lengthy.