Are Bill Clintons remarks about Obama shocking?
Pundits are shocked — shocked! — about former president Bill Clinton’s remarks this weekend, dismissing Sen. Barack Obama’s victory over Sen. Hillary Clinton in the South Carolina primaries as a mere re-play of Jesse Jackson’s victories there in 1984 and 1988. The media has gone full tilt, accusing Mr. Clinton of dangerously fanning the flames of race — from “America’s first black president,” no less. But is it really a surprise? Not to those who study the history of presidential campaigns. It was almost exactly this time of year 16 years ago that then-Gov. Bill Clinton, eager to break away from a tight pack of 1992 Democratic primary hopefuls, decided crime would be one his big-ticket issues. Democrats should “no longer feel guilty about protecting the innocent,” he would proclaim from the campaign trail. How did candidate Clinton choose to show he was “tough on crime?” By flying down to Arkansas, mid-campaign, to personally preside over the execution of Ricky Ray Rector, a mentall
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