I agree with Edwards on this. Clinton's comments are highly offensive and indefensible. For her to suggest this criticism is just coming from the Obama campaign is insulting to me and everyone else unaffiliated with that campaign who found her comments offensive.

Now the attacks turn racial? With Obama having the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson behind him what else could we expect.Personaly Im offended by Obama not being strait forward with his "change" slogan and who he represents for his change. It sure isnt me.I have to work for a living.

Edwards recently said that Obama was in never never land, I guess he forgot about that. Every time Edwards joins the Obama band wagon it means a win for Hillary, you think he shut up by now if he really want to complete.

nicely put, john edwards!

Good job John! Clinton has alot of experience - of REWRITING HISTORY! No shame from the Clinton's! I do not want dishonest people in the White House, especially our President! All people are included in Obama's Hope and Vision message. Whereas the Clinton's are working the Rove/Washington D.C. PLAYBOOK TO A 'T'. VOTE FOR OBAMA! BY THE WAY, I AM WHITE MALE AM OFFENDED BY THE CLINTON'S COMMENTS!

John Edwards is the most vindictive candidate for either the Democrats or Republicans. He's a professional stirer, he starts it and then sits back and laughs. The camera was on him when Hillary got animated during the last debate and he was almost licking his lips waiting on her to mess up. Too bad, so sad, she didn't. Can't he see after 5 years the American public doesn't want his negativity?

What happened to races working together? I have never heard the Clintons give anything but admiration to Civil Rights leaders. Does that mean that you can't even mention a white american who had the vision to see a color free nation, or are we just switching from a white to a black nation. The African American community has a lot of work to do in pulling together also, it's not just the white community.

Shame on you John Edwards! If Hillary opens her mouth she's a negative campaigner, if you attack her it for negative campaigning. She's talking about policies and records, you're twisting words. I find it humorous that the only thing she can be attacked on is when someone takes something she says and talks about it out of context.

lynn, edwards vindictive?
obviously you havent taken time to listen to him. his unselfishness rides above all the others, he could be riding out the last years with his wife and kids off on some island of paradise, instead he put himself out there to fight for the people like me. i appreciate it, i believe he is straight and true to his word. also human, like all the others, and that is ok.
and girly, edwards doesnt 'pander' for anything, what you see is what you get- he is sincere.
unfortunately as i have seen over the years, you gotta be a little bit crooked and a little twisted to do well in u.s. elections. nice guys often can't win., prove 'em wrong, edwards! we need you!

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have not endorsed Obama. In the meantime, it is Hillary Clinton who is playing the race card. Both she and Bill and a host of aides and surrogates throw out lines right and left, and if someone notices, they claim Obama twisted it! What, did he put the words in her mouth? And if you think they have explained things up to now, how are they going to explain this one- One of her advisors told a Guardian reporter:

"If you have a social need, you're with Hillary. If you want Obama to be your imaginary hip black friend and you're young and you have no social needs, then he's cool."

disgusting! How is she going to get out of this one? say Obama made her do it? Fire another advisor? It is clear that racism is a tactic that the Clintons have now chosen to use in this race. It is dispicable, and as a 50 year old white woman, I am offended.

Thank you John Edwards for your honesty. I sincerely hope that a President Obama will ask that you become a part of his administration or cabinet.

Jesse Jackson HAS endorsed Obama!!

The Clintons are just like Karl Rove only for Democrats. They will say and do anthing to get elected.

Both Edwards and Obama are the candidates who speak to the real needs of the nation...not just one party or the other.

I am completely offended that Jon Edwards, who claims - and has claimed ever since I met him in 2003 - that his campaigns would be above board and positive, would join in this false "racist" fight. I have contriubted to Edwards' campaign more times than I can afford because I believed he was honest and forthright, and would keep the campaign focused on the real issues. By joining the Obama campaign in its pursuit to label what the Clintons said about MLK needing LBJ to pass civil rights legislation as "racist", he has joined in a campaign of deception. I am so disappointed. Edwards has lost me as a supporter now.

I have no problem with Sen Clinton making a mistake about MLK bc everyone can make a mistake. But what I find totally offensive is that today she tried to accuse Sen Obama as being behind the storyline.

This to me is disturbing bc she wants to bring race into these elections.Obama has nothing to do with this.To me , this is simply politics from Sen Clinton to trying to play the victim on every occasion even when she is caught in her own mistakes.

This is troubling to me.

Yes, Jesse Jackson and Jesse Jackson Jr have both endorsed Obama. But Mrs Jesse Jackson has endorsed Hillary.

And Jesse Jackson, Jr has become one of th ehatemongers for the Obama campaign. That way, Obama can "remain above the fray" and stay clean. Just as he has in the other slimy enterprises he has engaged in. It's never Obama, cause he can't afford to look tainted. Otherwise how would MSM be able to crown him as "the Second Coming"?

You would do well to look into how he was so easily elected to the Illinois Senate, and how he was so "remarkably" elected to the US Senate, with nary an aspersion cast against him.

I fell for his hype in 2002. But after he backed away from his "Anti-war" position and said he and Bush differed little in their perspective of Iraq, I lost every bit of respect for him.

I won't vote for him again - unless he's the only one on the ticket.

Obama has lost all my support! If someone simply criticizes Obama’s policies, that does not make him/her a racist. I am offended that he would allow Hillary & Bill, who have stood for Civil Rights their entire lives, begin to be labeled racist for critiquing his record. America will not stand for a President who shouts "You are a racist" every time someone questions his policy. We don't need that negative culture...so much for "hope "Mr. Obama. I'm now supporting Hillary!!!!

Clinton's comments represent what she truly believes- that the larger culture and the will of the people don't matter because, ultimately, only the state can save us. Not all of the statist authoritarians are on the right you know.

Hillary was right. In 1964 the majority of the country was vehemently opposed to Civil Rights. LBJ used the shock following Kennedy's death to ram the bill through Congress. If we had had a less experienced President in office, one who had not spent years in the Senate mastering that art of negotiation and debate, it is doubtful that the bill would have passed when it did.

And Edwards is being less than truthful. Hillary never said that change begins in Washington. She said that it took a President to get it DONE.

I'm tired of this lie that black people were the only ones responsible for Civil Rights. PBS promotes that view. A lot of white people were involved in the movement--at personal great cost.

Many white legislators who voted for the Civil Rights Amendment lost their jobs, and the Democratic Party lost the South. We lost the New Deal coalition, and as a result we have only had two Democratic Presidents since 1968.

And now your brining down the Democratic Party by playing the race card. Some nerve!

I have serious problems to see any hope, change and unifier qualities in Obama and Edwards. If one thing is sure about the Clintons: They are not racist!!! Obama and his followers are such bad loosers after NH. I hope Hillary beats Obama and Edwards up in the next dabate as she always does.

As a professional historian, I'm deeply offended by everyone taking offense at various interpretations of the origins of the 1964 Civil Rights act.You are showing great disrespect to those academics who have done quality primary source research on the law. Let's get back to inserting "change" in every sentence.

All of this nitpicking is irrellivant because we can't afford three wars, socialised canadian-style health care sponsored by HMO's and other increases in domestic and discretionary spending when the Canadian dollar is stronger (with the Mexican peso not far behind)and all of our jobs going overseas, never to return. The biggest job market this past quarter was in bartenders and the service industry. It's nice to know that were all paying off college loans to work in fields like that. And that we'll all be working fulltime jobs during our "retirement." None of the canidates care to change the status quo. And why should they when they can distract us so easily with meaningless drivel such as this topic. Change means CHANGE, not the same tired old tired policies that contribute to continue our downfall as a world power.