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Proving there's no statute of limitations on playing the race card, former New York City Mayor David Dinkins has emerged from his befitting political irrelevance to endorse Hillary Clinton for President and to blame his 1993 loss to Rudy Giuliani on racism (video here).

It turns out his blessed ouster was wholly unrelated to having presided over 13% unemployment (a level unmatched since the Great Depression), the highest violent crime rate the city has ever seen, or the attempted secession of one of the boroughs.

In fairness, it's not entirely accurate to characterize Dinkins as politically irrelevant.  He did come out of the woodwork in both 2001 and 2005 to endorse losing Mayoral candidates Mark Green (the proud new owner of the money-obliterating radio network Air America) and Freddy Ferrer (Edwardsianly class-warmongering coiner of the "two New Yorks" who, as a Hispanic candidate, lost to Caucasian Mike Bloomberg presumably on account of racism).

Congratulations to Senator Clinton on joining the ranks of Dinkins endorsees.

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I Thought We'd Established It Was the Name Tags

Proving there's no statute of limitations on playing the race card, former New York City Mayor David Dinkins has emerged from his befitting political irrelevance to endorse Hillary Clinton for President and to blame his 1993 loss to Rudy Giuliani on racism (video here).

It turns out his blessed ouster was wholly unrelated to having presided over 13% unemployment (a level unmatched since the Great Depression), the highest violent crime rate the city has ever seen, or the attempted secession of one of the boroughs.

In fairness, it's not entirely accurate to characterize Dinkins as politically irrelevant.  He did come out of the woodwork in both 2001 and 2005 to endorse losing Mayoral candidates Mark Green (the proud new owner of the money-obliterating radio network Air America) and Freddy Ferrer (Edwardsianly class-warmongering coiner of the "two New Yorks" who, as a Hispanic candidate, lost to Caucasian Mike Bloomberg presumably on account of racism).

Congratulations to Senator Clinton on joining the ranks of Dinkins endorsees.