Karlos is feigning surprise at Clinton's latest remarks

Yes, the blogosphere is abuzz.

From USA Today: Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to continue her quest for the Democratic nomination, arguing she would be the stronger nominee because she appeals to a wider coalition of voters — including whites who have not supported Barack Obama in recent contests.

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

Clinton's blunt remarks about race came a day after primaries in Indiana and North Carolina dealt symbolic and mathematical blows to her White House ambitions.

Somewhere in a plane from Iowa to New Hampshire, in the middle of the night, a plan was hatched. Turn Obama into the "black candidate."

And the following analysis is a little stale, for me at least 'cause I've been saying it since, well, Iowa, and friends have heard it ad nausea, but...

Somewhere in a plane from Iowa to New Hampshire, a plan was hatched. Turn Obama into "the black candidate."

Post Iowa: Steinem, with some of the worst foreshadow messages I've ever heard, says women are never front-runners, despite AND because he's black. But the underlying message is still, you guessed it, HE's BLACK.

NH: Fairy tale. (He's Black.)

SC: Jesse Jackson. (He's Black. )

Super Tuesday: I don't remember. But I bet it was...wait for it...it's coming...one more second...he's black!

...Ferraro... (again, bad foreshadowing...)

...3 am...

...Reject and denounce Farrakhan...

...He wouldn't be my pastor...

...you get the picture, right. I don't have to go on, and I don't even have to source it. We all know the narrative.

But Clinton got a little off message with the manufactured obligatory fake outrage over the bitter comment.

Elitist. Yet, I guess, yes...still black - if only because by now the narrative is completely ingrained in the psyche of the intended audience.

But that one was tricky and Clinton paid for it...that and the gas tax laugher.

Now she's back on message, but not underlying or understated. Out front. In the open.

And it shouldn't be a surprise.