Grasping at straws as she continues to stay in the contentious Democratic race, Hillary Clinton claimed the following in an interview this week:

“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on… Senator Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me … There’s a pattern emerging here.”

This followed Democratic strategist / Clinton supporter Paul Begala’s quote during Tuesday night’s coverage of the Indiana primary on CNN:

“We cannot win with eggheads and African-Americans. Okay. That’s the [Michael] Dukakis coalition, which carried 10 states and gave us four years of the first George Bush. President Clinton, you know, reached across and got a whole lot of Republicans and independents to come.”

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the ones dividing the Democratic party, rather than uniting it, by diminishing all that Barack Obama has accomplished.

With their dismissive strategy and divisive remarks such as these, the Clintons are indeed reaching across the aisle. Right to John McCain.

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Ding, ding! Democratic insiders and CNN contributors Paul Begala and Donna Brazile went at it May 6, the night of the North Carolina and Indiana primaries.

Brazile, a Barack Obama supporter, took issue in particular with a remark by Begala - a Clintonite - that Obama needs to build more than just a coalition of “eggheads and African-Americans,” a.k.a. the Michael Dukakis vote.

Not sure why it’s so addicting to watch talking heads debate the same things for months on end, but watch Donna Brazile - the manager of Al Gore’s campaign for the White House in 2000 - lay the smack down on Begala…