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Michael David Cobb Bowen at http://cobb.typepad.com/cobb/2008/02/the... some very important thoughts about way the contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is playing itself out. Could it be the beginning of the end of multiculturalism? The abstract assumptions of that philosophy are now at war with one another in a very non-abstract way. In order to get around the wall of victimhood, Hillary has tried to make herself look like a bigger victim than Obama (crying, appealing to women, seeming ever more pathetic . . .) but it hasn't really worked. Obama is getting the fruits of the boomer generation's labor . . . he is the multicultural candidate and he's getting support because of it. But he doesn't talk about it . . . not really. He doesn't have to do it because everyone (in the media and in his party) seems pleased to do it for him. They all feel good about themselves for supporting him--especially because he does not remind them (continuously) about the fact that supporting him is something extraordinary in American politics. Hillary has to attack him now for things like "inexperience" and so forth. Or, as Cobb points out, she has to appear even more multicultural by appealing to Hispanics. Either this house of multicultural cards will fall in on itself or we'll all descend into open tribal warfare. Of course, I'm hoping for the former.