After outcry over Bill Clinton, Barack Obama unlikely to campaign for Rahm Emanuel

Politico reports:

Though Rahm Emanuel holds a commanding lead over his rivals in the latest polls, his path from the White House to the Chicago mayor’s office leads straight through a political minefield: the city’s African-American community.

Last week, when former President Bill Clinton announced he would campaign for Emanuel in the Windy City, two prominent black candidates were outraged. Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.), who since has dropped his bid to support former Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun, had declared that if Clinton came to support Emanuel, one of his former White House advisers, it would be an “overt” move “to thwart the legitimate political aspirations of Chicago’s black community.” And Moseley-Braun, reminding the former president of the bruising 2008 Democratic presidential primary campaign, warned that "Clinton should remember South Carolina, where he played the race card, painting Obama as 'the black candidate.'"

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