by Frank James
In an earlier post, we mentioned that Sen. Barack Obama disagreed with comments former President Bill Clinton made suggesting that it was the senator from Illinois's campaign that injected race into the presidential campaign.
What failed to come through in that previous post was just how incensed the former president is over allegations that he was the one who played the race card, specifically on the day of South Carolina's presidential primary when he appeared to try and minimize Obama's expected big victory in the Palmetto State over Sen. Hillary Clinton.
According to a Fox News story, Clinton's got pretty earthy yesterday at the end of interview with a Philadelphia radio station while the microphone was still open.
Clinton told WHYY radio in Philadelphia in a phone interview that his words about Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns leading up to wife's primary loss in South Carolina had been twisted and he has been unfairly painted with the banner of racism.
As evidence of his work for racial equality, he pointed to his own appointment of blacks, Hispanics and women to top administration posts, his work worldwide to combat AIDS, and to his Harlem office space.
The interview complete, Clinton appears to think the phone or microphone is turned off, and makes a remark to someone near him.
"I don't think I should take any sh** from anybody on that, do you?" Bill Clinton said.
The former president seems to not to want to let this matter die, which doesn't help his wife's efforts any.
What's more, he's only making it easy for the Obama side to know what buttons to push to get him way off message.
By the way, does this mean WHYY will be receiving a communication from the Federal Communications Commission for airing profanity during a time when kids might have been listening?
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Now Bill denies that the whole thing ever happened.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/22/bill-clinton-i-choose-not-to-play-your-games-today/#more-6595
Posted by: JT | April 22, 2008 1:48 PM
Were there any Swamp articles when President Bush used a swear word near the microphone at a gathering of international leaders?
Posted by: jackson | April 22, 2008 1:57 PM
I can't decide which Clinton is crazier, both of them lie with such frequency because they have lost touch with reality, not out of expediency. Both of them suffer from paranoia and megalomania.
All the rumors of tension in the Clinton marriage are false. Bill and Hillary are a match made in...somewhere.
The Clintons are not survivors as they claim to be. They are damaged goods, mortally wounded by their time in the White House. Their continued physical existence is not the same thing as survival.
Posted by: John E | April 22, 2008 2:01 PM
Jackson - if the mainstream media reports any negative stories, no matter that they are true, about a Republican, then Republicans whine and cry that the media is 'liberal'. Isn't it nice to know we have a press in this country that gets scared of being called names?
Posted by: Paul | April 22, 2008 2:44 PM
"BILL CLINTON SPEAKS"
TO DEFINE WHAT IS IS, IS IS THE S...! AND MY WIFE HAS ALL THE S... NEEDED TO MAKE THIS A MORE PERFECT UNION. HILLARY CLINTON CAN NOT ONLY "DELIVER" NOT LIKE BARRACK OR JOHN MCCAIN.
BUT MY WIFE IS THE S...! SHE WILL DELIVER ON HEALTHCARE. SHE WILL DELIVER ON "DEFENSE"
SHE WILL DELIVER NOT ONLY IN THE "KITCHEN" BUT THE WHITEHOUSE "KITCHEN" TOO.
SO IF IT IS TOO HOT IN THE KITCHEN GET YO S...AND GET OUT!
YES, GEORGE, SHE IS TALKING TO YOU. GET YOUR S...! AND GET OUT!
BECAUSE NOT ME, NOR MY WIFE, SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON HAS TO ANSWER TO ANY GOP S...!
NEXT! YOU CROSSOVER CRY BABIES!
Posted by: Roger Morris | April 22, 2008 3:09 PM
Bill Clinton is right. The Obama camp did squew his words into a racist remark when non was intended. Is this how its going to be with a black president? Every time you disagree with him or point out a truism that he doesn't like you'll be painted as a racist or an Uncle Tom?
Posted by: The Bubba | April 22, 2008 3:39 PM
Jackson and Paul, the Swamp, in fact, did have at least one item on the bad word Bush used at an international summit. Frankly, I thought it was silly, mostly because he used it in a private conversation with Tony Blair that was picked up my microphones. This exchange with the Slickmeister is a little different.
But, as usual, the Loons on the Left cannot understand common sense differences.
Posted by: John D | April 22, 2008 4:26 PM
Bill Clinton is right. The Obama camp did squew his words into a racist remark when non was intended. Is this how its going to be with a black president? Every time you disagree with him or point out a truism that he doesn't like you'll be painted as a racist or an Uncle Tom?
Posted by: The Bubba | April 22, 2008 3:39 PM
No, YOU are the anti-Obama racist one and you've proven it over and over again on here under various different post names.
You're not fooling anyone, you clown...
Posted by: John E | April 22, 2008 4:34 PM
What a lying hillbilly! He is so very presidential, don't ya think?
Posted by: JO | April 22, 2008 5:19 PM
I agree with former President Clinton. His record in office and since does not require him to take scat from anybody.
Now as for the thin skins of OObama supporters, the constant labeling of opponents as racist isn't the kind of "CHANGE" we should be looking forward to.
In fact, I "HOPE" it ends soon.
Posted by: ElliotNC | April 22, 2008 6:26 PM
Bubba,
Squew? Maybe your handle should be Elmer...
That wascally wabbit Obama...
Posted by: Tom O | April 22, 2008 7:09 PM
Hey Bubba, was that s-k-e-w that you were trying to spell? No wonder your candidate of choice "misspeaks" so much...
Posted by: tony | April 22, 2008 7:21 PM
One has to wonder: If Bill Clinton is so devoted to the causes of Black peoples around the world, is it because he's trying to atone for allowing almost 1,000,000 Africans to die in Rwanda and doing nothing to prevent it. We all know it was a political decision and no moral dilemma is as easy as it seems on paper, but HE CHOSE TO DO NOTHING AS THEY DIED. It's shameful that he tries now to claim a position as the savior of Blacks and is so incredulous when someone calls him on racially divisive actions. The fact is that he has made political decisions that negatively affected Blacks before and he'll do it again. No surprise here.
Posted by: Slim Charles | April 22, 2008 7:52 PM
So Clinton denies saying this and then we hear the recorded conversation. That's just the kind of integrity we want back in the White House.
Posted by: Omar | April 22, 2008 8:07 PM