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Hillary Clinton fights racial insensitivity claims

COLUMBIA, S.C. - On a day when she had hoped to woo black South Carolina voters, Hillary Rodham Clinton spent yesterday fighting charges of racial insensitivity and launching multipronged attacks at rival Barack Obama.

Joining the fray was Clinton family friend Bob Johnson, the influential African-American founder of BET, who made a controversial remark seen by some as an insinuation about...

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