{"id":14375,"date":"2008-01-26T21:30:05","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T02:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14375.html"},"modified":"2008-01-26T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T02:30:05","slug":"b-clinton-cites-jackson-in-explaining-obama-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/b-clinton-cites-jackson-in-explaining-obama-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"B. Clinton cites Jackson in explaining Obama victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really, sincerely wish Bill Clinton wouldn’t make comments like these<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For those of you who can’t watch clips online, the video shows a reporter asking the former president earlier today, “What does it say about Barack Obama that it takes two of you to beat him?”<\/p>\n

Bill Clinton responds, “Jesse Jackson won South Carolina twice, in ’84 and ’88, and he ran a good campaign. And Sen. Obama’s run a good campaign here; he’s run a good campaign everywhere. He’s a good candidate with a good organization.”<\/p>\n

Now, given the racial angle to the campaign, it’s probably unhelpful<\/i> for the former president to discount the Obama victory by citing Jesse Jackson.<\/p>\n

It’s possible the Clinton campaign could argue that BC’s Jackson reference had nothing to do with race, and the former president was just mentioning Jackson to demonstrate that candidates who do well in the South Carolina primary don’t always go on to win the race.<\/p>\n

But why, then, not mention John Edwards’ victory in the state four years ago? Why specifically connect Obama to Jesse Jackson after weeks of talk about misusing race in the campaign?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really, sincerely wish Bill Clinton wouldn’t make comments like these. For those of you who can’t watch clips online, the video shows a reporter asking the former president earlier today, “What does it say about Barack Obama that it takes two of you to beat him?” Bill Clinton responds, “Jesse Jackson won South Carolina […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}