Dear Pilot--

I might not be willing to go so far as to say the Clintons are "closet racists," but it sure does seem like she is not above exploiting the latent racism of others. Hard as it is to imagine now, I honestly think that race did not have to be an issue in this contest. And I don't even mean that the majority of people would just have "hidden" their racism and voted for Hillary. I mean that race would not have become an issue in voters' minds, and Obama would have gotten plenty more white votes than he has gotten in the more recent contests. (Because he got plenty of white votes earlier on.)

To me this really is a prime example of the "old divisive politics" that Obama supporters want to move beyond. Causing polarization where there might not have been any before is not very hard. All you need is to introduce a little irrational fear into people's minds and you cause a "limbic" reaction that is out of proportion to the "threat." The result is that in a country already badly divided, we now have a democratic party that is just as badly divided. This didn't have to be. And it is not a good thing for the party or the country.

Please God, let's bring this to an end.