Is Bill destroying Hill for his legacy?

It seems Bill is still not really helping the Hillary Campaign.

Got an email from a reader directing me to Striken Fancy, who had linked to The Agitator who wonders if Bill Clinton is deliberately trying to sink Hillary?

I thought at the time that Bill Clinton’s comments comparing Obama to Jesse Jackson were tacky and self-defeating, but I hadn’t really given them much more thought than that. But this guy made some interesting points.Bill Clinton has mastered southern politics all his life, the activist said. He knows all the buzz words, he knows all the code words, he knows where you do and don’t tread. Clinton, the activist said, has been on the right side of racial politics his entire political career. No one that savvy slips up the way Clinton did. It had to have been a calculated move. And because it was a calculated move, it was a deeply cynical, baldly race-driven move. Clinton, the activist said, was signaling to white voters that Obama isn’t his own man. Clinton was giving white voters the okay to marginalize Obama–to put him aside as just another stooge the party has to prop up to appease the black folk, but not someone they ought to take seriously. This, the activist told me, was unforgivable.

Agitator goes on: So why would Clinton do it? Well, maybe he doesn’t want his wife to be president.

Stricken Fancy recalled what I had written right after Thanksgiving, ’07:

Mrs. Clinton, as the “first woman president” would also be a “wartime” president. If she is elected to the Oval Office, her presidency would immediately be more historically compelling and relevant than Mr. Clinton’s ever could be. And, as someone said recently – I can’t remember where I heard it, probably talk radio – if Hillary, as CIC, takes action in the war on terror, particularly if she does so in response to provocation, everything she does may well be measured against all of the provocations to which Bill did not clearly respond in the 1990’s.

Possibly President Clinton’s weird “misspeaks are designed to do more harm than good for his wife. I can’t say for sure – maybe on some sub-conscious level it’s true. Clinton has always had something of a self-destructive streak in him; it’s part of what makes him human and compelling and – for some – endlessly fascinating.

I went on in that piece to say that Hillary was simply campaigning stupidly, but that was well before Clinton did his “Jesse Jackson won South Carolina” schtick. What do you think – was I on to something? Is Bill trying to sabatoge his wife’s campaign?

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