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For Hillary, that has to sting. She set out on a professional courship of Byrd when she arrived in the Senate in 2001, and even once threw him a birthday party -- at the home of Frederick Douglass, no less.
But here's the question: Will Michelle Obama at last admit that there is racial progress in a country where a former "Exalted Cyclops" of the Ku Klux Klan willingly embraces the first serious African American contender for the presidency?
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