Barbour defends his comments on race, but is the damage to his potential 2012 bid already done?

Could Haley Barbour s comments on race doom his potential 2012 presidential run before it even starts? On Tuesday, the Mississippi governor sought to clarify his remarks to The Weekly Standard s Andrew Ferguson about growing up at the height of the civil rights movement in Mississippi.

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