Dude, when did Hillary Clinton start channelling Strom Thurmond?

Today, two days after Andrea Mitchell stood in front of MSNBC's audience and reported that the Clinton camp was discounting the results of the North Carolina primary because of the large population of African Americans that make up that state's population, Hillary Clinton had this to say during a USA Today interview:

"Senator Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how the whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me... I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on."

I'd like to say something profound about the fact that this country was founded on the premise of the existence of certain specific truths and that the Clintons, through this specific episode of their habitual conduct, have demonstrated that they have forsaken such truths in favor of Machiavellian relativism. But instead, in retort to their most recent unpleasantness, I'll rely on the words of JFK, "Race has no place in American life or law."

While JFK was in the midst of renouncing an entire wing of the Democratic party, George H. W. Bush making a deal with the Texas chapter of the John Birch Society. He recognized that if the Republicans were going to wrest control of the federal government from the Democratic majority, the Republicans needed in their party what has become euphemistically known as the "Reagan Democrats."

So, the senior Bush made a deal with segregationists and by the end of the century, the Republicans controlled the Presidency and both houses of Congress.

Now, almost 50 years later, Hillary Clinton - in pursuit of her electoral map - wants to undo the reforms championed by Eleanor Roosevelt and JFK - the heroes of the modern Democratic party. Untethered to any truth whatsoever, she has not only demonstrated her habitual willingness to abandon the principles underlying the very foundation of this country, she now has "thrown under the bus" the core principles of our party.

Excuse me while I go puke.

I can't help but take this moment to observe that the Clintons made the current Bush administration possible. We Liberals lament the Bush-Cheney administration's ability to warp words past any semblance of meaning. Yet, it was our blindness to the Clintons that made the current administration's transgressions politically possible. The Clintons were the first to throw truth under the bus of political expediency. Karl Rove just chased us down the slipper slope they started us down.

After this episode, here's to hoping that once Clinton finally sinks into the abyss she has crawled into, New Yorkers do the right thing and vote Ms. Rodham out of office.

Like George W. Bush, she has no place in American politics.