It's unlikely that she would still say "benefit the black community first and foremost".

And more to the point, Obama himself does not believe in this attitude.

The person who cited this has all sorts of games he likes to play. If it's not guilt by association, it's taking something somebody said years ago and trying to hang the person with it. I seem to recollect the same thing was tried with Sen. Byrd---who used to be a KKK sympathizer--decades ago.

In fact, it would not be hard to find something somebody said which a reasonable person now would object to--though it was said by the poster's idol, Hillary Clinton. But this one was said quite recently--and said by her, and not her spouse:   the assassination reference.

It would be refreshing if the poster would start thinking--and realize that the choice is between John McCain and Barack Obama. And John McCain promises no end to the Iraq war but "victory" and believes that the US Constitution set up the US as a Christian state.

And any attempt to drag in some off-the-wall statement---years ago--by Michelle Obama --is nothing but more stale merchandise from the one of the slimier purveyors of those offerings---the CEO of Smears R Us.

It also shows that the poster has no idea what the election is really about---and certainly has no intention of actually standing behind his claimed concern about the encroachment of religion on the public sphere. So his whining about this appears to have been a bit more than slightly hypocritical. Unsurprisingly.

Amazing how desperate he is to justify in his own mind his opposition to Obama.

It's a bit pathetic.