I agree that the source is important, but on the other hand, even if Clinton or her staff had nothing to do with the video, Clinton *supporters* are still using it to smear Obama and attack him for not apologizing for stuff he didn’t say or do. The potential damage is there regardless.

I would like to be able to vote for Sen. Clinton. But, I think that Sen. Obama has better ideas on how to guide our nation. Where Sen Clinton would paper over differences, I see Sen Obama building bridges. Where I see Sen Clinton appointing Dem loyalists, I see Sen Obama appointing the best available including Republicans.

If it came from the Clinton campaign (or was blessed by the campaign in some way), then it is just another example of trying to force Obama to repudiate and/or apologize for all sorts of things that he is not — nor should he be — responsible for. In my book, those are Republican tactics, not something a candidate of the same party should be pulling.

If the source of the video has nothing to do with the Clinton campaign, however, then it’s simply an example of some dolt trying to underscore Geraldine Ferraro’s claim that Obama has had it easy because he’s a black man running for the president; if he were a woman, he would really get to see some prejudice.