There are a few things you overlook -- both Deval Patrick and Obama have campaigns based on the same themes of hope and change, both crafted by political strategist David Axelrod. Why did Massachusetts voters, who once elected Patrick, go for Hillary in the primary? We did it in spite of the endorsements of Patrick, Kennedy and Kerry. We did it because the campaign rhetoric of hope and change were worn out and long since proved, by Patrick himself, to be hollow.

It is one of the saddest things in the world to me that my enormous respect and support for Hillary Clinton may now somehow be cast in any way, shape, or form as racist.