Kathy Kiely and Jill Lawrence reported recently at USA Today that Hillary Rodham Clinton made these "blunt remarks about race" in an interview when asked how she could win the Democratic nomination.

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."


"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

Within the past number of months I have mentioned a couple of times here that despite all the drama within the Democratic presidential nomination, it was great that people are finally talking about race. Now I wonder if I spoke too soon. We are now seeing a downhill slide into the depths of depravity (okay, that's a little extreme) that while it is not entirely surprising it is still dissapointing. One (well, uh, me) still tends to think that racists are low-class ignoramuses that really can’t help themselves.

Michigan voters head to the polls today to cast their ballot in the state's GOP Primary. Polls indicate (do we believe polls anymore?) former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has a narrow lead over Senator John McCain and everyone is talking unemployment.

Michigan has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country -- 7.4 percent, compared with 5 percent nationally.

In response to BlogHer's ongoing survey, "Should BlogHer interview presidential candidates or stick to their spouses?," women in this community have sent a clear message to presidential candidates to "wake up to the blogosphere" and answer 12 policy questions, either via video or the printed word.