Reply #38: I agree that it was really, really dumb and there was no reason to do it [View All]

[stahbrett]

The fact that Bill Clinton DID do it is indisputable. To think that trying to pigeon-hole him so explicitly to Jesse Jackson's campaign in the 1988 campaign would do what they wanted it to do was dumb.

Here's HOW they should have done it, by the way - Bill Clinton should have said that Obama had run a great campaign, but Hillary had just won NH and NV (don't mention the virtual tie in delegates won, of course), and that historically there have been candidates who have won in South Carolina who wound up not doing as well in subsequent states. Then let the media take that quote, and have their fact-checkers do their work, and let THEM discover who those candidates are, and let THEM put the name out there.