Funny how old arguments can come back and bite a politician in his ass.

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Oh I don't know. I still think comparing Obama to Rove was more of an insult.

But seriously, comparing Clinton to McCarthy may have been over the top but you'd think a "two term Democratic" President would a) have a thicker skin, b) know better than to make comments that simultaneously questions the patriotism of a fellow Democrat while pumping up the Republican front runner.

Then again, the Clintons do seem to have playing-the-victim down to a science.

Luckily the Obama supporters love cheap shots, misinterpretations, and gratuitous slime when it isn't aimed at them. Clinton's statement meant nothing even remotely close to this, and now we get to hear a stampede of all the usual high horses. And all because the reporter who covered the initial story decided that the statement wasn't just an innocuous wish -- in EXACTLY THE VEIN OBAMA WORKED in his "race" speech, wishing for an election free from gotchas and smears and distractions -- but some double-bankshot gambit against Obama. Pathetic. McPeak is pathetic, anyone who buys this is beyond pathetic. I've had it.

Once again Bill denies the obvious about what he is up to. When he went racist in North Carolina, he acted shocked when people pointed it out. He acts shocked now. The sooner we can be rid of him and Hillary the better off the country will be.

First of all, Mcpeak was passed over by Bill Clinton, for Joint Chief of Staff Chairman. Clinton named General Shalikashvili instead. So the way I see this, is that McPeak is getting payback on Clinton by saying Clinton is like McCarthy. He only endorsed Obama to start with, because he's holding that grudge. He backed Dole, and after that.... Guess what?..... He backed Bush!. So by all rights, he would normally have backed McCain. Second, If what Bill Clinton meant, was that the GOP would run 527 attack ads that show everyone with their hand over their heart during the star spangled banner except Obama, then Bill's right

Oh, I wouldn't let let Mr. Clinton's remarks slide either.

Do we remember back before the Democrats took charge in 2006? If you were anti-Iraq War, you were a traitor.

The Republicans had so much much power even I was afraid to say much myself. It doesn't help that I live in the middle of a county that went 70-29 to Bush in 2004, and in the middle of a state that went 60-39 to Bush too.

For him to say what he did about Obama not loving his country was by far the most offensive comment I have heard this whole campaign.

He needs to stop campaigning for her. Right NOW.

Obama did not let a surrogate say that Hillary is a monster, although if you think about it, you can figure out what she is talking about and "politically speaking" she went too far.

He really needs to go home like Ferraro did & Power did, because he's done something a lot worse than they ever did.

I'll be surprised if one of the 30 or so Admirals and Generals supporting Clinton don't step up and level McPeak's karma for him. Obama and his aides are defending McPeak by proving that Clinton accused REPUBLICANS of McCarthyism? Really? Bill Clinton attacked f**king Republicans? How dare a two-term Democratic President who was hounded for 10 years by a relentless Republican attack machine accuse them of McCarthyism? Which party do Obama and his aides belong to? I rememer McCarthy well, and I have often accused the Republicans of using his tactics, because they do. This is the first time I have been disgusted by Obama. Please tell me he sent no such memo out.

Bill Clinton is for Bill Clinton. Obama is going to be nominated---but Clinton has already done a lot to sink his wife's chances, and now he might be helping to elect another incoherent republican bumbler, which will make his below average presidency,(unless you are a moderate republican)look like it was great.

Obama really does represent a change from Bush-Clinton-Bush.

The disingenuous brigade is out again. Slick Willy said what he did with the usual wiggle-room that he needed. He's certainly improved his spinning skills since his disbarment.

"I grew up, I was going to college when Joe McCarthy was accusing good Americans of being traitors, so I've had enough of it,"

Are all of you missing the point? He didn't say he is trying to throw people in jail. He said he grew up when McCarthy was accusing good Americans of being traitors. If he is mentioning he grew up with it, he obviously remembers it, and he is recalling it.

Until you've been unpatriotic and a traitor, you wouldn't know how it feels. I for one know how it feels.

I think people are taking more from what he said than what he really said. Clinton was acting like McCarthy in the respect that he's calling people traitors. McPeak grew up with McCarthy, and I grew up with a friend who had to be a registered Independent because he works for the local government and if he was even remotely thought of as being a Democrat, he wouldn't worked his way to where he is now.

Most of Clinton's moments calling Bush a McCarthyite came in 1992, long before the years of unfounded investigations. It's a rhetorical card that Clinton frequently used to score political points, so it's utterly disingenuous for him to get mad about it in reverse - especially when he's calling John McCain more patriotic than Obama.

Comparting Bill Clinton to McCarthy is distasteful. The former President is not a racist but a cheap political slut.

I still admire Bill though- esp. when he honors the diginity expected from a former President. Calling Richardson a Judas was a classic case how much Clintons respect few democrats in high office, when the chips fall the other way.

Thanks to Penn and Hillary surrogates- Bill's legacy is running down stream in the sewer off late.