Bill Clinton today:

 “No, I think that they played the race card on me,” said Clinton, “and we now know from memos from the campaign and everything that they planned to do it all along.”

“We were talking about South Carolina political history and this was used out of context and twisted for political purposes by the Obama campaign to try to breed resentment elsewhere. And you know, do I regret saying it? No. Do I regret that it was used that way? I certainly do. But you really got to go some to try to portray me as a racist.”

Problem is though, they weren't talking about South Carolina political history. The question that elicited the now notorious "Jesse Jackson comments" was "why does it take two clintons to beat one obama?"

David Wright: What does it say about Barack Obama that it takes two of you to beat him?

BC: [Laughs] That’s just bait, too. Jesse Jackson won South Carolina twice, in ‘84 and ‘88. And he ran a good campaign, and Senator Obama's run a good campaign here. He’s run a good campaign everywhere, he’s got a, he is a good candidate, with a good organization.

The reporter might as well have asked him who he thought would win the Super Bowl, and the response would have been "Jesse Jackson." The answer was not relevant to the question asked. It seems Bill deliberately went out of his way to drop the name "Jesse Jackson" in there. And he wants to say Obama played the race card?

I know this is what Bill does. He lies and stretches the truth and bends the facts so that they slant in his favor and he looks like the victim of the big bad media or the "vast right wing conspiracy" that now supports his wife, or of the Obama campaign for merely keepign track of the insensitive (and i'm being generous with that characterization) remarks that came out of the Clinton campaign, which Obama has since apologized for.

I think one of the great tragedies of this campaign has been the fall of Bill Clinton. He's probably still enormously popluar with certain populations of people, but for those of us who have paid close attention, for those of us who have followed every second of this campaign since before Iowa, his "little white lies" have grown too numerous to be an accident or a result of sleep deprivation or of an unfortunate incident of "mis-speaking".

No. There are too many occurences, too many of his so-called "facts" that have no basis in reality or any supporting evidence at all to be merely an accident.

Bill Clinton is a liar.  

There, I said it.

Of course, this is no news flash. Republicans in the 1990's knew it. But he was only lying about sex then, and they overplayed their hand in impeaching him for it.

But from the definition of the word "is" to "I did not have sexual realtions with that woman", there is a long history of Bill bending and stretching the truth.

But now, I know that Bill Clinton will lie about anything as long as it serves his interests.

And what's worse, unlike when he was an elected official, there is no one to hold him accountable anymore when he tells a bold faced lie. And precisely because he's a former president, people will give extra weight and extra thought to the lies he tells, not thinking a former President would lie to them. Especially a former president who is so well liked...

I wish, as all of us do, that we had a media that asked the tough questions and called a liar a liar when they were demonstrably lying.

If someone called Bill Clinton on his repeated "factual inaccuracies" it would make my day to see him get red-faced and start waving that finger around. Guess I'll have to keep dreaming...