Bill Clinton allegedly made racist gaffes about Barack Obama in 2008

After Obama's speech tomorrow the Teabaggers will have a nervous twitch in their collective posteriors

What should he have said, "Hey shouldn't we be carrying that n****' bag"?

Peculiar censorship at IC-will try again! Posted Tuesday re once again a very misleading headline. The supposed gaffes were widely reported in 2010. IC also had a very distasteful headline re Frank Ryan and Nazi collaboration - Wiki deals with this I think fairly (I have some information myself from sources). Another staff writer in a rush of opinionating was unaware that Timothy Dolan was also going to "do" the Democratic Convention. I agree with several posters here that there was nothing racist from Clinton-Obama had made a speech a huge lie-there is no conservative USA or liberal USA only the USA,no red or blue states,etc which of course,was crap then and certainly now. Julian Castro tonight on the other hand made a fine speech devoid of the vacuous Obama fluff. Back to the IC, what BC said to Kennedy was factually incontrevertible; what BC said in Vermont later that Obama and the Iraq war was alot of bull - well, he made a couple of street corner speeches as an Illinois State Assemblyman - not on a par with MLK denouncing the Vietnam War or Robert Byrd the Iraq war. Julian Castro did make a very fine speech tonight-much better than Obama's and not fraudelent. There is a link in the article to the New Yorker-when you get there you'll find a hilarious piece reporting how Paul Ryan was snatched from the Congress gym to head the Seal team taking out Osama Bibi Laden. BTW,voted for BHO 2008,will do again 2012.

CelticQueenUSA, I would like to remind you that when Obama took office the Democrats had control of Congress and the Senate and the White House for 2 years. He got nothing done so stop blaming the Republicans. Presently the Democrats control the White House and the Senate. The Republic xontrol the Congress. Harry Reid has refused to vote on a budget for over 3 years. The Congress has sent job bills to the Senate and Harry Reid has refused to bring these bills to the floor for a vote. Harry Reid is an angry old man who needs to go.

In all seriousness I feel that the real racists in America are the Media and the left wing liberals. Take Chris Matthews of MSNBC, that dolt talks of nothing but race. He say's that using the words Chicago, food stamps, welfare are racist. Listen to the Vice President Joe Biden, Barack is clean cut, atriculate, and good looking (something like that); then Biden again speaking to a Black audience, "They (the republicans) will put ya'all back in chains." Harry Reid on Obama, he is clean cut and dosen't have a Negro accent. This type of gutterspeak would never pass muster were it spoken by a Republican. Americans are wising up to the liberaledia.

I think Clinton was correct. He was not being racist. He just looked at this freshman in the senate, still wet behind the ears and thought of him as such. Just like a Navy plebe at the academy; "carring our bags" or "getting us coffee" Clinton's remarks were not out of line. Further, his comment "Obama doesn't know how to be president...He doesn't know how the world works" wasn't inaccurate at the time he said it. In fact, IT'S STILL ACCURATE TO THIS DAY. It's unfortunate that we have a president that never held a real job. If he had worked for a living like the rest of us MAYBE he'd have a better feeling of how we live and done a better job. BO has to be the worst president I've seen in my 47 years of voting; even worse than "JIMMY".

I think what Clinton really said when chatting over cocktails with Kerry, Kennedy, Dodge, and a bunch of interns at a local watering hole, was, "Hey barack, go home and get your shine box."

Don't see it as racist..It just recognizes the fraud that the Obum is...Some people just think too f'n high an' mighty of themselves.

The GOP smear masters are up and running They are running out of propaganda material and they know it's all over for them. 4 MORE YEARS.

That is a true quote however, I don't believe he is a racist at all. I think he was just referring to his coming out of nowhere.

First, so what if he did? BFD. Second, all of you ranting about how it's some GOP plot have apparently never read the New Yorker; It's a totally leftist liberal rag. That said, how can anyone think of giving Obama another 4 years when he has betrayed you Kool Aid drinkers across the board? I voted for the bum the first time around, yea, I bought his BS too. HIS DIDN'T DO ANY OF WHAT HE PROMISED. Did he close Gitmo, or did send even more prisoners there? Did he even try to end the war, or did he expand it? At least Bush was honest enough to not try to tell us that we had to kill for peace! Obama said that if he couldn't fix the economy in 4 years then we should call him Mr. ex-president. I, for one intend to take him up on his offer. And continue my fight against the damage that the commie SOB has done to the Bill of Rights.

It's ever so easy to quote dead people. This man (Obama) has done a good bit or wrangling with congress which is REPUBLICAN dominant. He can do so much more (like end the wars) if Congress would work WITH HIM. Barack Obama FOR PRESIDENT -- SECOND TERM!!!!

The bottom line is STIll this: ANY Democratic President , whether Bill, Barack, or Hillary...is ...was...would... and will be better for the PEOPLE- the ORDINARY WORKING PEOPLE of America... than anyone that the Republicans can offer this year. Don't believe the hype. For as with John Kerry in 2004, the Republicans will say anything and do anything to get into power, as thy spend and spend and spend in order to attain the goals of their billionaire buddies. Romney/Ryan will try to pull the wool over your eyes. But they don't give a fig about you and those you love. ALL they want is your vote. Don't be a fool.... Don't give it to them!

but its the truth of the matter - clinto was right on this one.

Sounds like the Obama MYTH spinners are running out of material if they have to reincarnate this one. This is what happens when you LIE. You can't get the lie exactly the same every time because you can't remember what you said the last time you lied. Unless this is on tape somewhere or Bill Clinton makes a statement to the press saying that one of these versions indeed happened, I think it needs to be circular filed along with all the birther rantings and women able to block a rapist's sperm beliefs of the GOP. It is like Ryan voting against bringing the revenue balanced committee findings to a floor vote and blaming Obama or his scuttling of the Boehner/Obama compromise and then saying that Obama has not proposed an alternative. The GOP is the party of LIES!!! How else can they hope to get a single vote? Hear-say is not admissible in court and this is hear-say twice removed where one of the original parties is dead and the original theoretical eavesdropper is also gone. As a former high school teacher, I have seen the distructiveness that follows when innocent kids start paying attention to "He Said - She Said" rumors. I have always counseled the kids to check the rumor with the people actually involved before getting too excited. In this case, I think that if one considers their voting records, their bodies of written work and speeches and their recorded conversations, both Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy are UNLIKELY to have had this conversation about bags or coffee. DUH!!!