RAND SIMBERG: “What the Clintons did for feminism, could Obama do for race relations?”

UPDATE: Obama’s damage-control efforts seem too little, too late. “The Illinois senator spoke at a hastily arranged press conference on the airport tarmac in Wilmington, N.C., as media traveling with him were about to board his campaign plane. Airplane engines roared in the background and a plane taking off interrupted the brief media availability, which lasted less than six minutes and permitted only three questions.”