She hits the high points, even though I have to say that from early on, I still remember Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s misogynistic sarcasm toward Hillary (note we haven't heard a word from him since, though) and some Hillary surrogate's statement that Obama supporters just wanted to have a black best friend.
Anyway:
"More than any single thing, that moment with Bill Clinton in South Carolina represents the rupture that was coming," says Harris-Lacewell. The moment occurred in late January, when the former President compared Obama's landslide win, in which he received a major boost from African-American voters, to Jesse Jackson's victories there in 1984 and 1988. Because the former President offered the comparison unprompted, in response to a question that had nothing to do with Jackson or race, the statement was widely read as chalking up Obama's win to his blackness alone and thus attempting to marginalize him as a doomed minority candidate with limited appeal. Obama was now "the black candidate," in the words of one Clinton strategist quoted by the AP.
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