Clinton, Obama step back from race flap & call for truce

[EV_Ares]

This was what I was saying this morning they needed to do instead of letting the media lead them into this fray:
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Amid dustup fanned by campaign surrogates, Democrats call for truce

Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama stepped back from a controversy over race Monday night, agreeing that a prolonged clash over civil rights could harm their party's overall drive to win the White House.

The two leading Democratic contenders shifted course as Republicans pointed toward Tuesday's pivotal primary in Michigan, where Mitt Romney and John McCain both pledged to lead a revival for a state and an auto industry ravaged by recession.

Obama was the first to suggest a cooling of the rhetoric on race, calling reporters together to say he didn't want the campaign "to degenerate into so much tit-for-tat, back-and-forth that we lose sight of why all of us are doing this."

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Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22657327/

[BeyondGeography]

1. Shit headline

Never would've happened without Obama.

[tabatha]

3. Nonsense.

Obama said nothing.
It was the Black community that responded first - eg Clyburn.

But there is supposed to be a truce. So keep it at that.

[DURHAM D]

2. Absolute tripe from Andrea Mitchell.

The media continues on their quest to protect Obama.