If I may quickly add a point about Bill Clinton's South Carolina Narrative: he could have said, winning SC does not guarantee the nomination and looked to John Edwards' victory in 2004 in that primary. Edwards, like Obama, was a Senator. 2004 was 4 years ago.

Instead, he compared Obama to Jesse Jackson, a man who had NEVER been elected to office and went back 20 and 24 years!!!! to get his comparison.

I loved Bill Clinton and voted for he and Hillary twice each. But I excused them both way too often. Her debating strategy and his angry and obviously sly attacks on Obama have made me feel like an almost 60 year old fool.

Morale for me? Just because someone has bad and real enemies, that does not mean that person is good.

I pray to the God I believe in (I am a more than once a week liberal church-goer) that I stop making excuses for my friends. I loved your site since I discovered it because you keep your eyes on where anyone is correct and where anyone is lying whether they are a hero to you or not.

Considering how often all those people are wrong, I'll stick to someone who's been right when all those people were wrong, Professor Krugman and here is his take on said race card On race cards and all that.

If Obama wins, and I hope he doesn't, you are going to have a chance to see what the race card looks like. I hope that you and the rest of the Press will be as sensitive to the race card as you are right now, but I am not expecting it, IOKIYAR.

On Saturday, a reporter asked Bill about Obama's boast that it took two Clintons to try to beat him. Bill replied: “Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here.”

The only possible reason for invoking Jackson's name was to telegraph the following message: Barack Obama is black, so if a lot of black people decide to vote for him — doubtless out of racial solidarity — it doesn't mean squat.

And the reasons to send that message would be to devalue an Obama victory in South Carolina; to inoculate the Clinton campaign against potential losses in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee — Southern states with large African-American populations — next Tuesday; and, most important, to pigeonhole Obama as “a black candidate” as opposed to “a candidate who, among other characteristics, is black.”
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There a many many more blog posts, columnists, major editorials, cartoons (which we ran on tmv). Click on our Bill Clinton category and read our posts.

It is widely reported…including by Robert Novak…that Bill Clinton's actions are what caused Teddy Kennedy to endorse Obama. And why some independent voters are balkiing at Hillary Clinton — who as a candidate on her own, has grown enormously, been by all accounts an excellent New York Senator and didn't need the kind of polarizing “help” that her husband has gifted her.

And with that…hasta luego

The Harold Call me commercial was soundly condemned on this site. It was race baiting as were Mr. Clinton's comments that got him into so much trouble with the press and led to him keeping a lower profile…for a while. The difference was the Harold commercial came from Republicans; Mr. Clinton is a democrat. It's irrelevant what party someone belongs to. The comments he made in the post above are NOT playing the race card. And with that, I leave you to continue to deny and issue that was a huge issue in the press was an issue at all.
ALSO: Be SURE to let columnists such as The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson know that Bill Clinton never played the race card. Here's his column. You can start with him (there many other columnists, conservative and liberal, who dealt with this issue).
http://www.detroitnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl…

Thanks, Joe for giving me my first entry.