But I love what I'm doing now. And that's why I really admire how Hillary's handling this. You know, she went right back to work. You have to live in the moment. Time is passing. You can't make yesterday again. You have to live in the moment and go forward. And at least for people like us what you do and whether people are better off when you quit than started is a lot more important than whether you navigate the prevailing story line.

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Clyburn said he was disappointed with comments from Hillary Clinton that some took to suggest President Lyndon Johnson had more to do with passing the Civil Rights Act than Martin Luther King Jr. [Hillary NEVER SAID THAT and Clyburn lied about it.]

"We have to be very, very careful about how we speak about that era in American politics," the South Carolina congressman said at the time. "It is one thing to run a campaign and be respectful of everyone's motives and actions, and it is something else to denigrate those. That bothered me a great deal."

He also expressed frustration over Bill Clinton's recent remark that the characterization of Obama's record on Iraq as consistently antiwar is a "fairy tale."

Jim Clyburn is a lying sack of crap.

Considering the plethora of those who treated the Clintons so disgracefully, that's really saying something!

My list includes Kennedy, Pelosi, Richardson, Russert, Matthews, Wolffe, Alter, Klein, Olbermann, Dowd, Sullivan...

I think what just doesn't jibe for me is how easy it should have been for the self-described post-racial candidate to have gotten a grip on this right from the get-go and simply not stood for the kinds of things we saw and heard coming out of New Hampshire.  But he didn't.  He let it all float around, get good and cranked up, watched his numbers go up, and when all of it had finally done the damage he needed it to do, he came out with a typical Obama comment that "of course" there was nothing racist in what the Clintons said.

Clyburn was more than a disgrace, but what does that make the candidate who allowed it to go on as long as it did?  Wasn't feeling or seeing much unity or hope or change in the air during that period - it was all ugly and divisive and wrong.

Guess backing Obama didn't pay off after all...

Well, first of all, you say I don't like this type of modern reporting that says, so-and-so anonymous says this. You know they all say this.

He nails it. And in this case Snow proves the point by revealing who she was really referring to by 'your supporters'.

Fair TALE?  Fairy Tale indeed.  Fair tale is that Obama is grounded in reality.  I'm beginning to think he is the perfect example of "This is your mind on drugs" Fried eggs ad.

WHAT?  He has past playing [White} House, with this latest disclosure.  His campaign plane remodeled to show a seat with the title "President"?  OMG  I really think we are past being a presumptuous Prom Queen.

Hillary as the nominee
or McCain it WILL be!

Perhaps that can be explained in a rational way one day.  

But no matter.  I doubt it could be.

Now I do foresee a "who me?" sort of shrugging of the shoulders about this.  It's why I called Obama the Bruce Bowen of politics.  It's not only that he plays dirty it's the pathetic raising of the arms and crying foul to the refs when he gets fouled.

It trickles down to every one of his supporters.

It's utterly shameful to have even suggested that President Clinton and Hillary Clinton are racists.

I hope that they will be vindicated soon, and those who said it will face harsh retribution. Obama may not have said it, but his most vocal surrogates and cheerleaders did, and they spoke in the capacity as mouthpieces for his campaign.

It may make me unpopular here, esp. among the three leaders of this blog, but I hope he loses the presidency solely on the basis of this issue. You just cannot say something so reprehensible about one of the best leaders and successful Democratic presidents ever, and expect to cruise on in to the White House after smearing his name and reputation.

(*Unfortunately, I believe that we will never again see a President who was as revered and successful as Bill Clinton.)

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In related news, I really like this quote by Tucker Carlson. He was responding to questions related to the new Kevin Costner film, "Swing Vote," in which he and a handful of MSMers make cameos.

Although he's a Republican shill, he explains concisely the same horror I felt about the insinuation that Bill and Hillary are racists.

What has been the most dramatic moment of the campaign for you?
The week after Hillary Clinton lost the South Carolina primary, when all the columnists who've been defending the Clintons for 16 years turned as a group to attack them. That actually shocked me.

The irony is kind of tasty, and depressing! ;-)The attack dogs on Huff-Po, Kos and the others consistently called her a neocon, a Republican etc... using neocon attacks! aiyeee.

anyway, logic never appeals to those obsessed with an ideology or a personality.
sigh.

This disgusting stunt is not going to work in the general election. McCain is going to fight back and it is going to blow up on Obama's face.

I had no idea "arrogant"  was a racist term.

Hillary had no idea praising LBJ's leadership in passing civil right legislation was denigrating MLK.

If Obama and his supporters continue calling all criticism of him racist it is going to blow up in his face.

Obama had his campaign prepare a 4 page document accusing the Clintons of racism and distributed it to all the reporters.

How about a challenge: try sketching out a scenario in which Barack Obama  wins the nomination and the presidency without race-related issues ever coming up in a way that doesn't hurt some "important" people's feelings.

I wholeheartedly agree with you here and deeply appreciate your writing on the issue.