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Bill, your Freudian Slip is Showing.

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"Jesse Jackson won South Carolina twice in '84 and '88..." Uh, but Bill, nobody mentioned Jesse Jackson. President Clinton tries to race-card it up until the last dog dies. But, hey, shame on the media for injecting race into the campaign, right? It is time...for them...to go.

Update: The Atlantic's Matt Yglesias had a pretty great line about this: "After all this time being told by the Clinton campaign that Barack Obama is some kind of closet Reagan-worshipping right-winger, it's a bit confusing to be told that he's the second coming of Jesse Jackson, too."

Update 2: Jesse Jackson says, Let's move on, while Chris Hitchens argues, What did you expect?

Update 3: If you were perusing politlcal sites on Sunday, you may have heard many angry Clinton supporters claim that they'd watched the full exchange, that the President was asked directly about the "first black president" prior to the clip -- hence, "that's just bait too" -- and that the media was distorting his remarks because they hate Clinton. Not surprisingly at this point, this all turned out to be a pack of bald-faced lies.

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