Former President Clinton just can’t stop making comments about race guaranteed to embarrass his wife and inflame the public:
Bill Clinton accused Barack Obama’s campaign of “playing the race card on me” and told a Philadelphia radio station that the Obama campaign took his Jesse Jackson comment and “twisted it for political purposes.”
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The former president fumed yesterday that it was Obama’s campaign that injected the race issue.
“I think that they played the race card on me. And we now know, from memos from the campaign and everything that they planned to do it all along,” Bill Clinton said in a telephone interview with WHYY’s Susan Phillips. “I was stating a fact, and it’s still a fact.”
The former president says the comment was “used out of context and twisted for political purposes by the Obama camapign.”
Clinton goes on to say that “you have to really go some to play the race card on me.” He lists a number of his accomplishments on behalf of African Americans, inexplicably putting the fact that he has “an office in Harlem” at the top of the list.
But Slick Willie saved the best, or worse, for last:
[A]s the interview concluded, Clinton turned to an associate and said, “I don’t think I should take any shit from anybody on that, do you? “
Here’s the audio for your listening pleasure, be sure to listen all the way through:
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