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Monday, Bill Clinton on WHYY radio was asked about his dismissal of Obama’s win in South Carolina with a comparison to Jesse Jackson:

I think that they played the race card on me . . . And we now know from memos on the campaign and everything that they planned to do it all along . . . This was used out of context and twisted for political purposes by the Obama campaign to try to breed resentment elsewhere.

Memos? What memos? Can we see these memos?

Then came Tuesday, Obama responded:

Hold on a second. So former President Clinton dismissed my victory in South Carolina as being similar to Jesse Jackson, and he’s suggesting that somehow I had something to do with it? OK, well you better ask him what he meant by that. These were words that came out of his mouth.

So reporters asked Bill Clinton what he meant. On NBC/NJ, when asked what he meant when he “said that the Obama campaign was playing the race card,” Bill Clinton said:

No, no, no. That’s not what I said . . . You always follow me around and play these little games, and I’m not going to play your games today . . . Go back and see what the question was, and what my answer was. You have mischaracterized it to get another cheap story.

Ahem. It is what you said, Mr. President. You said it within twenty-four hours too! So who’s playing games? I want the old Bill Clinton back.

Random aside: In other news, the Cookie Monster took Spinsylvania by ten points, cutting 11 delegates into the Vulcan’s 150 delegate lead. If you forget she was ahead by twenty points a few weeks ago and pretend there are 15 more big states to go, then this represents a tidal shift in the dynamics of the campaign. If you want to dream of happier times, check out MC Funk’s suggested concession speech for Hillary.

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