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Remark about 'race card' was misinterpreted, ex-president says

From the New York Times courtesy of the Houston Chronicle:

Clinton confronted the issue of race again on Monday when he was asked by an interviewer for WHYY radio in Philadelphia about his remarks earlier this year on the results of the South Carolina Democratic primary. At the time, he likened the victory of Sen. Barack Obama to that of the Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1998; Clinton's comparison was denounced widely by black officials who believed he was marginalizing Obama's victory with a racially tinged allusion to Jackson's failed presidential bids.

His comments became a turning point for many black officials and black voters, who cited them over and over in the weeks afterward as reasons they had coalesced behind Obama.

Susan Phillips, the WHYY reporter who interviewed Clinton on Monday, asked him whether he would still make that comparison or whether it had been a mistake, prompting Clinton to reply: "No, I think that they played the race card on me. We now know, from memos from the campaign and everything, that they planned to do it all along."

More here.

(Correction to the article: Jackson won S.C. in 1988, not 1998. Stupid New York Times.)

What memos? What the hell is he talking about? There aren't any memos. Old Bill should just throw in the towel and apologize.

When people get pissed off about negative racial remarks, it's not playing "the race card." It's righteous indignation. That is, President Clinton is the one who played the race card, or rather, the racist card, when he compared his wife's competition to Jackson: the whole point was to connect Obama, in the minds of whites, to old school civil rights agitators, making him, to the many fucktards out there who are receptive to such a racist idea, just another angry black man mouthing off.

That's definitely racist. Not to mention insulting to pretty much everybody's intelligence.

I'll rejoice when Obama finally gets the nomination, if only because the Clintons will be shoved back into the 90s where they belong.

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