Jake Tapper of ABC detects a certain deprecating subtext in Bill Clinton’s comments on Senator Barack Obama’s impressive 55/27 win in South Carolina, which doubled the total of John McCain’s votes in the GOP primary the other day:

Bill Clinton today in Columbia, SC: “Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in ‘84 and ‘88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here.”…I can’t understand why anyone would think the Clintons are running a race-baiting campaign to paint Obama as “the black candidate.”

Ah, wistful vista. The “fairy tale” comments by Bill Clinton a couple of weeks ago now seem like the good old days. BTW: why does the url for the ABC story call it “bubba-obama”?

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