WJC On Obama Camp: "I Think That They Played The Race Card On Me"
This today reported by Y-Vote You Decide, a project of Temple University and WHYY:
“I think that they played the race card on me. We now know, from memos from the campaign that they planned to do it along.” - President Bill Clinton.
And that’s how President Clinton begins his answer to WHYY’s Susan Phillips who, during a phone interview earlier this evening, asked the President how he feels about one Philadelphia official who says she switched her support after interpreting Clinton’s remarks in South Carolina as an attempt to marginalize Obama as “the black candidate.”
Clinton goes on to say that “you have to really go some to play the race card on me.” He lists a number of his accomplishments on behalf of people of color, inexplicably putting the fact that he has “an office in Harlem” at the top of the list.
Listen to the full clip. At the end, sounding as though he thinks his microphone is off, Clinton says: "I don't think I can take any sh*t from anybody on that, do you?"
I really think that it is not fair to Bill Clinton. As a woman of color, I think that he has done more for visible minorities than any other president in the US history.
Shame on those who play the race card - it ain't Bill.