David Gergen actually said...

It is intended. It's very clearly intended to diminish the candidacy of Barack Obama, and it was offensive because it was injecting race as a way to diminish him.

Context

Gergen criticizes the use of race in political discourse as a tactic to undermine Obama's candidacy.

03/11/2008

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