Breaking commentary

Just moments after my last post, this item came across the wire:

Obama, Clinton agree to end rancor on race

LAS VEGAS - Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama jointly pledged to bury a rancorous debate over race Tuesday night, each agreeing in a nationally televised debate that the other had long favored civil rights.
Both blamed supporters for some of the anger that had seeped into their competition for the party's presidential nomination in recent days.
"We both have exuberant and sometimes uncontrollable supporters," Clinton said in the opening moments of a two-hour debate televised on MSNBC.
Obama said both have "supporters or staff who get overzealous. They start saying things that I would not say."

That was a good move to make by both of them. It's good that they are both smart enough to realize this was the only way to resolve this issue. This will also go a long way toward keeping the Democrats unified as they seek the White House (and a continued majority in Congress.)

But it comes down to this, that the issue of race and civil rights is now a non-issue between them. They are agreeing to not try to one-up each other on this point, but it also means that who they have in each other's camps will stay in those camps and neither one will be able to take territory from the other on this issue.

So, let's roll the dice in Vegas and see what happens.