Bill Clinton’s Archie Bunker Moment
The former Prez couldn’t have been more obvious if he’d put on blackface and a convict’s uniform:
Asked about the vote results on Saturday night, the former president offered a curious comparison to an earlier era and contest.
“Jesse Jackson won South Carolina twice — in ‘84 and ‘88 — and he ran a good campaign, and Senator Obama has run a good campaign,” Bill Clinton said from Missouri, where he was campaigning for his wife.
Jesse Jackson? Who the hell mentioned Jesse Jackson? Barack Obama is staying way the hell away from Jesse Jackson, but Bill Clinton just chained them together like a pair of rock pile jailbirds.
Bill Clinton knows that a certain segment of America hears Jesse Jackson and sees Bobby Seale—and he’s banking on it.
UPDATE
As Allahpundit puts it:
[E]xpect some media attention for it in the next day or two, especially to bolster the congealing storyline that BJ’s tactics killed Hillary in South Carolina. This little parting shot may hurt her most of all, in fact, as the sheer artlessness of it throws a spotlight on any attempts by Team Clinton going forward to frame Obama’s win as a “black” victory.
Artless is right. And Allah has the vid.