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For Belle Star :

my husband is an officer in the U.S. Army who has served in Iraq. He is an educated, patriotic individual who serves his country because he loves the idea of "public service".
These serviceman are out there to keep uneducated people like you save. Hopefully they do reintroduce the draft and you will have to feel the pain and sacrifice that our soldiers and their families go through.

This country is not smart enough to vote for a good person, so you will go down with your flagpin put on ! And FOX News will report about it !

Shame on people like you ! You should be banned from voting at all !!

Obama's campaign did play the race card. I wish Bill would stop with the off the cuff remarks already though.

The race card is branding your opponents as racist despite their records...and eventually to attempt to convince the voter that if you don't vote Obama you are somehow racist.

It was a preliminary strategy that worked like a charm. They overplayed it by throwing Gerry Ferraro under the bus...and the attempt to make the Wright controversy about "race" was brilliant...but it's not really credible is it? That's about judgement!

at 8:45 p.m. Hillary declared winner - less than 1 % of vote in.

Such a big state! She did it!!!!!!!

Go Hillary!!!!

When you have lied to so many people for so long about so many things, it all blurs together. The ex-president thinks he can say and do anything and get away with it, because people will be too stupid or intimidated to call him on it. I guess when you get caught lying under oath in federal court, have to pay nearly a million dollars to a woman who says you harassed her, pardon people who are paying your wife's brother, lose Democratic majorities in both the Senate and the House for a decade, and still almost half of Democrats would like to have you back in the White House, it breeds a sense of entitlement, ego, and immortality.

Bill was right the Obama team is playing the Race card straight forward.

But Bill is a Lib like Obama so he only knows how to lie!!

Come on How do you know a Lib Politician is lying?

Ans: He/She is moving their lips!!

HAHA

Hey! According to AFP and Reuters, today Obama's back to slamming Jimmy Carter for meeting with Hamas (which has endorsed Obama). YESTERDAY, Obama was off slamming Carter -- and just wanting to eat his waffles -- after slamming him on the weekend.

Neil.. Hillary doesn't need to damage OBAMA. He is damaged good on arrival. His close associates, his opinion of people not like him and the fact that he says he is a foreign policy expert by living in Indonesia as child, visiting Pakistan on vacation and referrence to his Kenyan father when he never lived in Kenya himself..the Selma and the airlifting deals all combine to make someone cut his own nose to spite his face. It has nothing to do with Hillary. Winning Republican states and caucuses does not make him formidable. The Dems will reward the Reps with another 4 years. Then everyone will be paying attention to what Hillary had been saying all along.

"Check the skeletons in your own closets ..."

The longer the primaries go on, the likelier it is that Obama's manufactured persona is going to fall apart in time to disabuse the Democratic "leadership" of the advisability of forcing the nomination of a "black" John Kerry.

mark:

I'm not running for anything. YOU check the facts below.

The real question is, why does Obama keep having to pay the price for the nonsense of reporters who manufacture these controversies?

I just read the memo Bill referred to last night and also listened to the entire interview. Putting the two together, it is clear Bill is right. Only subjective and fanatic BO supporters and their media cohorts will see this differently.

I am totally confused about this race card business. In the media, I read about quotes and actions from members of both Clinton and Obama camps and to me they are benign. Then, the opposing side and journalists starts jumping all over it, saying the race card had been played. Man, I don't see it. I don't think there was anything wrong with B. Clinton's original comment in SC. I didn't see it as a slight toward Obama at all, and I am an Obama supporter. I even thought it was said in a complimentary light. The only time this whole campaign that I thought I saw a glimmer of the race card was by my own candidate: When Obama was talking in SF (I could care less about the "bitter" part), he in the small PA towns, people were even more skeptical hearing campaign promises coming from "a tall lanky BLACK man named Barak Obama". But this went unnoticed by the media and the Clinton campaign. So, the only time I thought one of the candidates brought race into issue, it turns out I was wrong. I guess I just don't have a clue. Maybe someday someone will explain it all to me. Until then...

Does anyone have the feeling Hillary is already campaigning for 2012?

She now knows she doesn't have a real shot this year, but if she damages Obama enough, McCain will become president. She would run again in 2012 and have a great shot at winning the nomination since Obama couldn't do it in '08 and McCain will be a weak from dealing with our present economic malaise, not to mention his age.

These guys are exhausted and running on nothing now but partisan adrenalin. It's a little hard to discern whether the man is prevaricating (again) or just confused. But given the necesary partisanship or combative nature of the campaign, it's not going to be last time. Everybody's exhausted. Imagine what it's like to be them.

God Love President Clinton. I love the way he uses denial and confusion to spin out of a contreversy. His wife lacks that sort of charm.

I don't get you people that say Bill Clinton just forgot. It was only yesterday. And for him to jump all over the reporter that asked the question??
It won't make any difference to the PA primary today, but it WILL for the next primaries and to the super delegates.
Is he intentionally trying to sabotage Hillary's campaign or has he just lost it?

"We have a strong two party system in America, in case you haven't notice."

We have a corrupt corporate imitation of a two-party system, in which most people who DO register to vote have no connection with a "party" at all. Thanks to the Bush administration's "Help America Vote Act" (for which the Democrats rolled over), the lowly voters no longer have most of their polling places, paper ballots, or any insurance of ballot integrity.

The BEST indication that the "two-party system" is the OPPOSITE of "strong" might be the bogus "debate" structure, managed by the corporate media, in which the party "leadership" has been complicit.

Well now, just WHO WOULD be in charge if Hillary gets the nomination or God forbig the Presidency?

PA voters, I don't think we have ever been told by Bill just what the meaning of IS is...

One thing we do know it is never the truth.

If By any chance the dems are able to steal the nomination away from Obama Nader would do well to place Cynthia McKinney as his green card nominee. There goes the black vote for the dems... for a long time and deservedly so.

If By any chance the dems are able to steal the nomination away from Obama Nader would do well to place Cynthia McKinney as his green card nominee. There goes the black vote for the dems... for a long time and deservedly so.

Is this not Excellent news for Hillary ?I guess it depends on how you define "IS" !

"I also know you're are not a Democrat."

Ah, you're wrong about THAT. If either of THESE frauds is the Democratic Party nominee, however, I'll be a McKinney/Nader voter.

By the way calling anyone who questions Obama a racist won't work against Republicans.

They dont have Liberal white guilt.

In fact it will probably push white people away from voting for him in a general.

"I also believe you don't have someone in Iraq and you don't care about those who do."

If you think Obama (OR Clinton) is going to be a savior from imperial militarism, you might have got on the wrong horse.

Most of the U.S. armed forces people in Iraq -- they're now, though, taking felons, the uneducated, any cannon fodder they can scare up -- were lured there by promises of "education" and the like. Then there are the "contractors", paid like pashas and controlled by no one -- about an equal number of mercenaries. Your guy Obama thinks contractors are fine -- check it out.

Why do you people keep focusing on this.

How about Obama giving Hillary the finger the other day three times at exactly the same time in three seperate speeches that involved hip hop guestures.

No press coverage on that. That's ok, but if Bill Clinton states the obvious you're all over that.

Of course the obama camp playes the race card. They do it every time someone challenges him and it started the day after NH.

So what. Cover the campaign. What the candidates say is important, parsing what their surrogates say is minor stuff. Be a journalist for once.

This is exactly why Mccain doesn't want to run ageist Obama. Everything anyone says in his camp will be turned into a racial statement.

For me, the clincher with Obama is his relationship with Pastor Wright. I don't want someone who feels that comfortable with a pastor who spews such hate feeling comfortable in the Oval Office. That would make me feel very uncomfortable. America responsible for 9/11, America created AIDS to inflict on blacks and the poor, white racist American culture, Israel cause of all oppression in the Middle East.

How is Obama going to unify the country if he can't even attempt to unify the democratic party?
Clinton has said that she would definitely consider him as her running mate and I believe if she gets the nomination she will ask him, he on the other hand think that all of her supporters would just defect to him and doesn't feel the need to ask her to join the ticket if her were to get the nomination. This, to me, is very telling of how he will follow through with his promises.

there was nothing wrong with what he said Jake.. there was nothing racial charged about it all.. please TRY to at least point that out.

Belle Starr, this is for you.

If your vote isn't covered in Diamonds or made of pure Gold you can keep it, it won't make a difference. Better still you can vote that Cyborg McCain, and help him spend $12b a month and waste the life of good Americans in Iraq. I can see you're a good America. I also believe you don't have someone in Iraq and you don't care about those who do.

Wow, when I first read this I was infuriated with Bill for diverting the attention back to this the day before the PA primary, but then I actually clicked the link that took me to the radio site and listened to the interview with Bill for myself. You "journalists" took a few lines from his answer and twisted it around. What President Clinton said was true - Obama has been playing the race card the entire campaign. How else do you explain 90% of African Americans voting for Obama, even though the Clintons have a proven record of fighting and working on behalf of civil rights their entire lives? Obama didn't go to the State of the Black Union in New Orleans (Hillary did) and also chose not to go to Memphis to honor the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination (which both Mccain and Hillary did). This shows the arrogance from him that has been getting more and more brazen as if to say, "I already have the black vote, no need to appeal to them anymore, they are undeniable behind me so why bother?"

Will someone please tell me WHAT exactly that Bill said on the radio interview that was offensive? He was merely defending himself, and he is correct that Obama pulled the race card on him. He said nothing offensive in SC, he said nothing offensive now. What gives? Is this the type of overly sensitive political correctness that we have to attend too, if the people are ignorant enough to vote Obama into the whitehouse? Do you see how Obama is already dividing the country, that little benigh comments can be construed as racist? Trust me, Obama will DIVIDE this country, it is already happenning, and it is sad and disgusting.

I mean really I think we are discovering that he can't help himself...

I think this guy is pathological...honestly. Everyone can say that is harsh...but I think he really is somewhat of a headcase. I am sure it is all tactical but if it isn't then he is kind of "coo coo"...
and that is scary to think this was the president I held up as high as I did a year ago...before half of us woke up to the fictional walls they had put up around ALL of those long lists of questions.

How could anyone still be believing this guy? or Hillary for that matter...you know it's like my parents telling stories of my childhood and unfortunately they have these self-created worlds...because it's easier.

Let me get this straight: Bill "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" Clinton crafts his own reality??

hopespring52

"joined at the hip"?

You are reaching at ...well it's not even reachable. You mean like joined at the hip like Hillary and Penn and Bill during all this trade talk?

after the talk about Iran and using nuclear weaponry as an intimidation device against a country that does not have nuclear weapons...thus giving them more incentive and excuse to try and make it look like they need weapons to protect themselves...

I think your statements are the same old...take the voters eyes off the ball...

Look at the real issues...and don't create fictional scenarios "joined at the hip" ... you are either just angry and throwing out your own wishful thinking (at best) or you are being slimey and misleading...

we all are banking on the voters being smarter than that.

Bottom line. The Clintons are low-class, lying, cheating, self-serving, manipulative opportunists.

They LOVED black people when they got their vote. Now they've turned against them to court the uneducated, bigoted, working class white vote.

They LOVED "moveon" when the group defended Bill Clinton. Hillary CHASED AFTER their endorsement, but when she lost it, she turned against them, too.

Of course, they HATED the Pittsburgh-Tribune Review, whose owner/publisher Richard Mellon, led the RNC charges against Bill Clinton while he was president, but now they LOVE Mellon, because they cut a deal with him to get his endorsement.

Disloyal. Dishonest. Disgusting!

It really would be incredibly laughable if it weren't so sleazy to try to make out that Bill Clinton is a racist or to even suggest it. Meanwhile on the other side, you have a guy who has a black separatist preacher who he calls his "spiritual mentor" and "his sounding board" who spews hate for America and the white race. Obama has been joined at the hip to this guy and his church for more than 20 years. Obama refers to the white grandmother who raised him as a "typical white person" with her discriminatory attitudes. And yet on election day in PA the press is badgering Bill Clinton!
Last minute hatchet job!!

Guess it depends on the meaning of "the." Maybe he was playing another race card, but he certainly was -- and is -- playing it.

Meanwhile, his wife -- the actual candidate (some folks tend to forget that at times), said more on her plans to "bombbombbomb, bombbomb Iran:

Scary, neocon kinda stuff!!!

Obama 2008 -- Yes, WE CAN!!!

Bill's memory is bad, but he was right the first time: the Obama camp did play the race card. Jesse Jackson Jr. did it in New Hampshire claiming that Hillary didn't care about Katrina victims, and then in South Carolina the Obama campaign released memos saying the Clinton's were "racially insensitive."

It was despicable then, and it's still despicable. Obama knows the Clintons are not racist, and his hypocrisy in decrying gotcha politics when he it did to Bill and Hillary Clinton, Gerladine Ferraro and others is amazing.

What's sad is that you, Jake, and the rest of the Obama shills in media allow him to lie to the people and pretend he is the poor hapless victim. He lied in the debate on this point saying his campaign never pushed the Bosnia story when they surely did, and he lied when he said his handwriting wasn't on the gun questionnaire, when it surely was.

Still waiting for you or ABC to do an expose on Obama race card memos or his debate lies, but I won't hold my breath. I know you are probably on his campaign payroll.

I pray that people will focus on the issues and not on Bill's little game he is playing.

Wen need to get off this beligerent crusade of attack and intimidate before it destroys us... focus on Hillary's discussion of Iran...how this military offensive stance is killing us in ou reputation , with our standing with our allies, with support to our military, with our crumbling military, and our economy.

Look at hillary's stances...she is saying things to get elected but those don't sit with her stances in the last 10 days...

get off these side issues they are using to divert your attention.

Bill is no dummy ...this is all purposeful...

"depends on what your definition of "is" is."

The Democrats can best emerge from this debacle by nominating John Edwards, instead of a "post-partisan" hustler or a former First Lady.

Clinton's right, though: he was snookered on that South Carolina deal, memos or no memos (which I, too, hope you'll publish).

To jump all over Clinton, as the press did, for mentioning that Jesse Jackson did well in South Carolina was stupid and wrong -- and Jackson might have stepped up to say so, if he weren't so compromised by his early endorsement of Obama.

The idea that a "discussion" about race consists only of Obama calling John Edwards a "white man" is quite a stretch. I will never vote for Obama, if he manages to buy the Democratic nomination -- not because I'M a racist, but because HE is.

By pulling out this charge that Obama "played the race card" on the eve of a pivotal primary, Bill Clinton is playing the race card, transparently seeking to stir up a racial backlash among white working-class Pennsylvania voters. It's a shameful, despicable stunt. Any respect I ever had for Bill Clinton has completely evaporated with the sordid role he is playing in this campaign. Just go away, Bill. America no longer loves you or needs you. You've outworn your welcome.

I pray the people in PA will read the CBS article "Bad Company" dated April 13,2008 before voting for Obama today.

Please don't blindly ignore the facts.
This could be a glimpse into the Obama presidency.

Bill Clinton makes a used car sales person seem honest.

There is no way America is going to put that child man back in the White House.

Bill mentioned the memos released from the Obama campaign that support the fact that it was Obama campaign that planned and played the race card all along.

ABC, Jake, would you please show those memos? You have intentionally self-censored a lot of bad press for Obama, and a lot of journalists are do this. Stop being adovcates for Obama, be a journalist with objectivity and integrity.

Clinton is not lying; he's just confirming the rumors that his neurological function has deteriorated. His long-term memory is terrible and his short-term memory is worse.

Poor Bill. He needs serious help.

Hey Jake,
Is this ever going to be over?? I already know who I will vote for in November, It will be Clinton or McCain. That all depends on who the Dem nominee is....Good luck with this 08 election Jake. You guys are great at ABC!

Unbelievable. And to think how much I adored him in the Nineties. I'm embarrassed.

He has not lost his mind. He is playing the race card again in PA, this time with larger white folks.

Obama has really got under Bill's skin, hasn't he?

Bill is desperate. Obama kicks the whole Clinton family out of the nomination race, and in the meantime he coldbloodedly and calmly deconstructed Bill Clinton's legacy...

And let's not forget that rewriting history is the Clintons' major profession. That's why Hillary called her ghost writer's book Living History: it changes all the time! Depending on how a Clinton wants to have it!

Geezz what an embarrasment Bill has become...