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Claiming the Race Card: Trump or Joker?

I've been around long enough to have seen the race card played--most famously by Clarence Thomas of "high-tech lynching" fame.  Can Bill Clinton (sorry buddy, you are every bit as white as I am) say Obama has done the following?
play the race cardv • political tactic to appeal to racist motives in the electorate. Alternatively; political tactic to appeal to non-racist motives in the electorate by accusing an opponent of appealing to racist motives
Furthermore,  can Bill make the claim that he is a victim of racism?  Maybe so if you have enjoyed being called "the first Black president" for years and never bothered to remind folks you are white.  



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Vintage footage of the republican slime machine against Bill Clinton, featuring Carville and Stephanopoulos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFPPCP9S9EA&feature=user

Think he learned the wrong lesson from that experience?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUm7tkgFGYs

Obama hits back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SjC6nnCvXM

Thanks. Both of those were great. It was worth it just to see Carville with hair and his bride-to-be looking like a refugee from Dogpatch!

Answer: They learned the lesson alright! They know just how to act like the republican slime machine!

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