Given Hillary Clinton's open espousal of 'white Americans,' if the official Democratic Party is indeed concerned to avert a disaster at the polls, surely this would be a good time for some of the remaining bigtime neutrals to weigh in.

How can John and Elizabeth Edwards, and Al Gore, and others keep silence on the (nonexistent) 'race' for the Democratic nomination, at a time like this?

Come to think of it, is Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean really somehow obligated to let this kind of thing--Clinton's open and explicit race-baiting--pass without any comment?

If they want their party to stand for something, and on a more pedestrian level if they want their party to muster enough unity to prevail in elections, then now is the time for all good men (and women) to come to the aid . . .