Whatever benefit Clinton may have gotten as a result of racism is far outweighted by the benefit that Obama has gotten from "identity politics".  Clinton has gone out of her way not to play the 'sexism' card against Obama in the way that Obama has played the racism card against Clinton.  

1. He compared Hillary to a skittish domestic cat with the "claws come out" slur.

2. Played into the negative stereotype that women are moody and "periodically" crazy.

3. Compared Hillary to his wife, saying she is no more qualified to be President than his wife is to be Senator.

4. Appeared in a SNL skit where the repeated "punchline" was that everyone was confusing Hillary with a witch.

5. Michelle Obama has repeatedly made thinly veiled attacks about Hillary's inability to "keep her house in order."  

6. In the first two-person debate between the two candidates, Obama pulled out the chair for Hillary at the beginning of the debate, even though he had never done this before in previous debates. It was an obvious stunt that he knew Clinton couldn't complain about and was hoping to spur conversation.

7. Obama's mocking and making a joke about Hillary handling a gun when she learned to shoot from her grandfather and her story about going duck hunting. Can you imagine Obama mocking a male candidate?

8. Generally speaking, Obama has played into many of the negative stereotypes of high-achieving females, including that Hillary is untrustworthy, unloyal, and will do anything to get to the top.

9. Done nothing to curtail sexist conduct at his rallies, including the wildly popular "bros before hos" t-shirts.

10. The entire "just quit" meme started with the Obama campaign and is incredibly sexist.  When you consider that, according to Media Matters, no other candidate in Hillary's position has been driven out of the race with such venom. This has been going on since FEBRUARY and has cost her millions of votes and dollars of support.

Imagine hearing, easily, two dozen n* jokes in mainstream media, in the nightly news and in newspaper columns every day targeting Obama.

And the Democrats saying NOTHING about it.

What a travesty. I'm going to keep score. Everytime I hear an gratuitous woman-hating slam against HRC -- as opposed to a tangible critique of her record, words or deeds, directly specifying which -- I'm going to mark a notch under "Why I'm writing in Hillary Rodham Clinton as my choice for President of the United States."

And what if HRC wins the nomination? It won't go away then. And what if she's the President? It won't go away then either.

Mike Barancle was always good, but once again, it is the boys on the bus gang. What is with these talking heads? He apparently has been married more than once. Go figure.

And Howard Dean, Donna, Ted, John, Pelosi, and other Democratic leaders SHOULD be protesting these insults in the name of all females in the world. Their silence only reinforces my decision in November.

Bob Kerry did not suggest that Obama went to a Madrassa, in fact, he said that Obama should not be afraid to use his middle name, "It's probably not something that would appeal to him but I think the fact that his name is Barack Hussein Obama and that his father was Muslim and that his paternal grandmother is a Muslim there are a billion Muslims on this planet and I think that experience is a big deal."

Bill Clinton didn't suggest that the only reason Obama won SC is because he is black, that is what you inferred from his comment.  

Not a word from Obama for:
"Hillary ain't never been called a N----r!" - Rev. Wright, from the pulpit,
Jan. 08

He did not say Obama was a dealer.

Among his concerns about Obama as the nominee, he said in an interview here today, is that his background is so relatively unknown and that the Republicans would do their best to unearth negative aspects of it, or concoct mistruths about it. Shaheen, a lawyer and influential state power broker, mentioned as an example Obama's use of cocaine and marijuana as a young man, which Obama has been open about in his memoir and on the trail.

"The Republicans are not going to give up without a fight ... and one of the things they're certainly going to jump on is his drug use," said Shaheen, the husband of former N.H. governor Jeanne Shaheen, who is planning to run for the Senate next year. Billy Shaheen contrasted Obama's openness about his past drug use -- which Obama mentioned again at a recent campaign appearance in New Hampshire -- with the approach taken by George W. Bush in 1999 and 2000, when he ruled out questions about his behavior when he was "young and irresponsible."

Shaheen said Obama's candor on the subject would "open the door" to further questions. "It'll be, 'When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?'" Shaheen said. "There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks. It's hard to overcome." (Bolding mine)

I don't see Shaheen charging that Obama was a drug dealer -- do you?

Bill Clinton never said Obama won SC "only because he was black"; many in the MCM and elsewhere, however, did say he overwhelmingly won the black vote. Clinton said it was not unexpected and that Jesse Jackson had done well there in two primaries.

This may sound ridiculously dramatic, but watching Keith Olbermann these days feels like running into that married senior partner at my old white-shoe corporate lawfirm who tried to get me into bed and then stopped staffing me on his cases after I turned him down.  Or like running into that ex who told me when we broke up after 3 years that "he owed it to his future children" to hold out for a wife who would "be a good mother" by quitting her job.