Hooray for the Hillary/Barack truce.

If it holds.

The idea that Sen. Clinton was painting Martin Luther King as but a footnote in the history of civil rights was such baloney it made me cringe. And yet it did illuminate one great truth: America's political campaigns have a nasty habit of taking one remark — maybe even a particularly stupid one — and trying to turn it into the candidate's defining, defeating moment.

Problem is … sometimes it works.

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