the video is the strawman argument.  You have to read the full transcript to understand the conversation.

Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign has prepared a detailed memo listing various instances in which it perceived Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign to have deliberately played the race card in the Democratic primary. [See the full memo here.]

The memo, which was obtained by the Huffington Post and has been made public elsewhere, is believed to have been given to an activist and contains mostly excerpts from different media reports. It lists the contact info and name of Obama's South Carolina press secretary, Amaya Smith, and is broken down into five incidents in which either Clinton, her husband Bill, or campaign surrogates made comments that could be interpreted as racially insensitive.

The document provides an indication that, in private, the Obama campaign is seeking to capitalize on the view - and push the narrative - that the Clintons are using race-related issues for political leverage. In public, the Obama campaign has denied that they are trying to propagate such a perception, noting that the document never was sent to the press.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/12 /obama-camps-memo-on-clin_n_81205.html

I think we can all agree that this and a couple of other threads on this page today is really just a response to BO supporters knowing that BO is going to get clocked today.  My guess is 14% or more.

This is why we are seeing the: (1) HRC is dangerous about Iran; (2) the clinton's are racist threads; and (3) Bosnia or better put HRC is a liar.  We will be seeing this all day and it will get worse on Wed and Thursday as BO supporters move back to the smear HRC at all costs narrative.  

Then it will be dkos and Marko's (who has been a democrat for what 5 years) telling us that HRC and her supporters are not REAL democrats and that HRC must quit. Then the "fake outrage" thread followed by this is the last straw and i am not suppporting HRC anymore.  Then the "we will go after HRC when she runs for senate and get her kicked out of our party".

Just saying this is what happened the wed after super Tuesday and we all know this will happen on wed and thursday as well and we are just startng to see it.

david

So, I'm not an Obama supporter, but this is something that I feel needs to be said so that we can, as fellow Democrats, be able to have full discourse on this subject.  I say this not merely as a proponent of a candidate, but as a lifelong Democrat who grew up in Detroit, who believes in the Civil Rights Movement and greatly resents all levels of institutionalized discrimination in this country:

White people need to be able to participate in this "open conversation about race" if we are going to get anywhere.  The way that the Obama campaign has vilified two otherwise championed Democrats such as Geraldine Ferraro and Bill Clinton is, to me, deeply disturbing.  Ferraro, the first female Vice Presidential candidate in the history of our country and herself an embodiment of equal rights, was taken egregiously out of context for the sake of political gain.  Personally, I am not about to believe for a second that anyone who has worked as a Democrat and for Democratic causes is a racist.  Words are said and they tend to fly around a lot, but what will ALWAYS mean more to me are the actions an individual takes.  Geraldine Ferraro is no racist.  Did she say some moderately unfortunate and clearly regrettable things?  Yes.  Yet, the way that David Axelrod himself perpetuated the entire controversy by responding to Ferraro with such fire is nothing short of the Obama campaign "playing the race card," one directive in a broader effort to put a wedge between African-Americans and the Clinton campaign.

The same can absolutely be said of Bill Clinton.  His remarks, though similarly moderately unfortunate and clearly regrettable, were simply not the kind of comments that the Obama campaign and thus, the MSM, have treated it as.  Again, actions speak louder than words to me.  If Bill Clinton can do enough for African-Americans in the 90s to be dubbed a black President, then the words that he say today could not possibly qualify him as a racist.  A few sentences do not a lifetime make; this represents a dangerous effort by the Obama campaign to extrapolate small bits and put them in the hands of small people who make mountains out of molehills against great Democrats who have, HISTORICALLY, been representatives of African-American interests.

Now, here's the thing that everyone knows about "White America": we don't get "Black America" for the most part, and yes, it's largely our fault.  We say stupid things because we can never, individually, fully know what it is to be African-American.  If it's politically expedient for a campaign that African-Americans hear white Democrats in the Clinton camp sounding racist, you can bet it'll happen.  Yet I don't see how you can rightly call Democrats who have championed black causes for years racists.

The fact that the Obama campaign has done this disturbs me.  If we're going to have a new kind of conversation on race, how are we really supposed to be able to speak, if we live in fear of retribution for "saying the wrong thing"?  That hay is even made of this suggests to me that this isn't a new conversation, but a new spin on plain, old-school race division.  Barack Obama and David Axelrod do not, to me, seem the right people to moderate or lead this conversation, and this is very troublesome to me.

...but they play them in their campaign.

hideous people.

Bill Clinton is a pathological liar.

is that the evidence that everyone points to that Bill Clinton played the "race card" happened AFTER South Carolina's primary.  Everyone forgets that the whole uproar occurred after the New Hampshire primary.  First Jesse Jackson, Jr. gets on television that Hillary must be a racist because she didn't cry after Katrina, Obama campaign surrogate (in fact) Donna Brazile says she's appalled by Bill Clinton's "fairy tale" comments as an African American and then Obama's campaign puts out a talking points memo about how the Clinton campaign is using the race card.  All this BEFORE the South Carolina primary.  Hell, this is all BEFORE the Nevada caucuses.  Everyone has such short term memory.  They try to point to "incontrovertible" evidence that it was Bill Clinton who played the race card.  Give me a break.  All these white people want to act like they're advocates for the black race.  They couldn't care less.  They are disgusting individuals who are exploiting an issue, using black people as tools, as cogs in the machine.  They are sick individuals.  BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON ARE NOT RACISTS.

i dont think BC is racist, but then again every one of us is subliminally racist. If you dot think you are, you're probably lying to yourself. The fact is the culture we live in creates racial discrimination and we as humans, are only products of that environment/cuture we live in. WE will never truly see the racial devide, but as we contine to mix inter-racially, our children and our children's children will not understand these things that have happened. They wont get the racial undertones...

that being said, who makes Obama the decider of what is racist or not, who makes BC the decider of whose racist or not.

Its all about perception. Poilitics is all about perception. If enough people think hes racist it shall be so, even if he isnt. That truly is sad...

The point of this diary, or what this diary shows, is not about Bill Clinton's feelings on race.  I don't think he's a racist.  Whether or not he "played the race card" is secondary to what this diary shows about the former president.  He was a good president, possibly great.  But he's also a liar.  He lies with such ease that I'm truly taken aback.  Like I said in another diary, when I hear about David Geffen's statement about the Clinton's lying too easily I thought it was just bitterness on Geffen's part.  But this campaign has given a lot of credence to his words.

Now I don't think this issue is something that we need to care about when deciding who should be president.  Hillary has a lot of plans for a democratic presidency that should make us all proud.  I just happen to think Obama's plans his chances for carrying them out are better.

What this does say is that Bill Clinton has a credibility problem.  If he was running for president, I'd be worried.  It's not just this incident, which he clearly misremembered.  The Tuzla incident that he brought back up stating that Hillary only misspoke once, late at night.  He said this despite a full week of the media covering the four different times she repeated the false account.  There was an issue where he said that everywhere he goes in Penn he sees people wearing buttons stating I'm not bitter.  The press corp following him had to call him out on that one, because this was the day after the bitter comment broke and they saw not one soul wearing these anti-bitter buttons.  He lied straight faced during the Lewinsky scandal (which I can understand, but he still lied).  It happens so often that every time I hear a personal story from the guy I have to go, "I wonder if he's lying."

Now he was a good president, maybe even a great one, but he's also a liar, and a bad one at that.

I am a Clinton supporter and think Bill was a very good president, but he needs to shut up for a while.