You should probably have started a long time ago, when the Clinton campaign started its sly hints that Obama's middle name was Hussein, he went to a madrasa, and he probably was dealing drugs before. This originally came from the normal racist scum that comes out from under the rocks at times such as this, but when the Clinton people began to get nervous about winning power they picked it up because they thought it would work. Since people have noticed this and begun calling them on it, it is suddenly their critics who are playing the race card.

Put up everything that has come out of the Obama campaign that is sexist against everything in the Clinton camp that is, well not racist but that plays one on television.

Sent by Christopher Hobe Morrison | 6:06 PM ET | 01-14-2008

Mon. Jan 14, still later on the same day: Paul M Martin (no relation to Roland) leaves a comment on the News and Notes blog in which he states:

"Fairy tale-shmairy tale. Do people really have this much time on their hands; is it a slow week, or what?"

Adding: "Personally, I'd prefer to dialog around the use of the semicolon; I feel that this useful footsoldier on the sentence trail is underutilzed and underrated in the contemporary political milieu.

"It's rise on the scene this election cycle; to me and to all those like me, English majors North, South, East and West, this would be a fairy tale come true."

Paul - originalfaith.com

Sent by Paul M Martin | 8:58 PM ET | 01-14-2008

Your timeline is utterly incomplete and to supposedly be professional journalists, you should have done your work. Well, lucky for you, there are those of us out here WHO HAVE been paying attention to the purposeful smearing of Senator Obama, and here is a Clinton Attacks Obama Wiki - there is an INCIDENT PAGE that is up to 21 incidents. If you look at it, you will realize that this began, in December, with Sheehan in New Hampshire. If you will also note, the number of incidents where the English language was 'misunderstood' and 'misinterpreted' for people who English is their NATIVE LANGUAGE. Here is the Incident Page: http://clintonattacksobama.pbwiki.com/Incident-Tracker

Sent by rikyrah | 8:53 AM ET | 01-15-2008

I feel like the biggest idiot in the States right now, but how is race connected to a statement about Obama's statements being a fairy tale?

Sent by Jason Pierce | 11:55 AM ET | 01-15-2008

Rikyrah,
This latest flap started with Sen. Clinton's MLK comment, which some read as a veiled attempt to lessen Dr. King's contribution to civil rights history. What I provided was an overview of last week's back-and-forth. Wikipedia is always a great resource; thanks for the link.

Sent by Geoffrey Bennett | 6:12 PM ET | 01-15-2008