Ricardo Thomas / The Detroit News

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., left, talks with the other leading Democratic presidential candidates former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., center, and Sen. Barak Obama, D-Ill., at a foruum at the NAACP national convention at Cobo Center in Detroit, Thursday, July 12, 2007. The Democratic candidates for president hit hard on dissolving the disparities between opportunities available to the wealthy and the poor in America at the forum.