After days of contentious back-and-forth between the campaigns, centered on racial issues, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama seem poised to call a truce and take race off the table, reports Joe Gandelman of The Moderate Voice:
They're not quite singing "Kumbaya," but they may be stepping back from a polarizing abyss that threatened to heighten Democratic Party tensions heading into the 2008 Presidential elections. New York Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama seemingly inched towards a truce to defuse an ugly, escalating argument over the use of race in the Presidential nomination campaign.* * * * *
Will this evolve into a real "truce?" Or are the polls simply too close for anything but hardball -- played as hardball while one or more sides insists it isn't playing hardball but that it's only perceived that way?
And, if the "truce" calls apart, will (a) the Democrats be united during the elections and (b) will New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg sense an irresistible opportunity to jump in as an independent candidate to appeal to voters who are sick of the seek-and-destroy political culture that has grown since the late 1980s?
Read the rest, with extensive references on the controversy, at the link above. Gandelman also offers the following CNN clip on the Bob Johnson remarks and Bill Clinton's comments on a radio talk show:
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