CATHERINE SEIPP writes that “Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton just played the race card against Hollywood and lost.”

Yeah, I think that Harry Belafonte is in the process of doing the same thing with Colin Powell. That stuff has been overused to the point that it just doesn’t work anymore. Big question: will Trent Lott still share star billing with Belafonte at this fundraiser?

UPDATE: Vinod Valloppillil draws some lessons from development economics and asks: “What this incident also calls into question is the continuing legitimacy of “group leaders” in an environment of (generally) rising political enfranchisement.”