There are certain instances when I don't believe she's even touching on racist behavior.  For example, the MLK vs. LBJ comments weren't about race, but were nevertheless both insulting and inaccurate. She wasn't dismissing MLK because he was black, she was dismissing the Civil Rights movement in favor of the presidency.

When she said Obama wasn't Muslim, as far as she knew, why did she have to add the qualifier?  One can attribute it to the usual political strategy of always leaving wiggle room, but does she think he's going to turn out to be secretly Muslim after all?  I'm not sure she intended to make the suggestion, but she sure didn't try to clean it up later either.

Bill's comments in South Carolina about Jesse Jackson may have not been meant racially, but they were dismissive enough to count as such.

It's when you look at all of these comments together.  When you misspeak or just express yourself in a way that can be taken in a negative fashion, and you do it again and again over the course of months, when does it stop being simple misunderstanding?  Maybe it's just their defensiveness.  Maybe it's the way Bill tried to claim the race card had been played on him.  Maybe if they showed the slightest sensitivity to the aftermath of their actions, they might not be in this trouble.

But since they seem incapable of thinking of anything other than personal victory, I guess it's hard to tell what might have been.  I suppose we'll all kiss-and-make-up.  A tiny part of me, the vengeful part, would like to see the Clintons pay a price.  I guess not winning is punishment enough.  God knows we'll need 'em for the general.