“Shame On You”

Bill Clinton is in a damage control mode for his wife Hillary, who is somewhere else other than South Carolina, suggesting that his wife may lose Saturday’s Democratic primary because many black voters will side with Obama.

Again playing the race card, Bill seems to be portraying Obama as the clear favorite trying to lessen the fallout for his wife’s potential loss.

If this primary is so important why isn’t Hillary in South Carolina? Or, have the Clinton’s conceded South Carolina?

Voting for president along racial and gender lines “is understandable, because people are proud when someone who they identify with emerges for the first time,” the former president told a Charleston audience while campaigning for his wife.

The AP reported that the atmosphere grew more charged after Clinton’s campaign aired a radio ad in South Carolina suggesting Obama approved of Republican ideas.

Obama responded with his own radio spot, saying “Hillary Clinton will say anything to get elected.”  And that is true for both Hillary and Bill, now and before.  Because he wants back in the White House as badly as she does.

Bill got a bit hot under the collar in response to some Democrats’ criticisms of the couples strategies.

“I never heard a word of public complaint when Mr. Obama said Hillary was not truthful,” and had “no character, was poll-driven. He had more pollsters than she did,” the ex-president said in a heated exchange with a CNN reporter. “When he put out a hit job on me at the same time he called her the senator from Punjab.  I never said a word.”

It was not clear what Bill Clinton meant by “hit job.”

The former president, according to AP, has accused Obama of exaggerating his anti-war record and handing out undeserved praise to Republicans.  Clinton said he personally witnessed Obama’s union forces intimidating Nevada caucus-goers and said an Obama radio ad suggested how Democrats could keep votes from his wife.

Last year, Obama’s campaign circulated a memo describing Hillary Clinton as “D-Punjab,” a reference to her Indian-American donors.

Wining in his own classic style, Bill said the news media is much tougher on his wife than on Obama.  At the end of the exchange, he told the CNN reporter, “Shame on you.”

“As far as I can tell, neither Senator Obama nor Hillary have lost votes because of their race or gender,” he said.  “They are getting votes, to be sure, because of their race or gender — that’s why people tell me Hillary doesn’t have a chance of winning here.”

Well, I certainly hope your right Bill!