If, for argument's sake, we wanted to give Bill the benefit of the doubt here, he does seem to be technically correct, though note I'm a scientist rather than a linguist.
Yesterday, he said the Obama camp *played* the race card (note past tense). The questioner today implied that he'd said the Obama camp *was playing* the race card (present perfect progressive tense), implying that they were still playing it.

Just sayin' ;-)

DEAR BILL, N E V E R M I N D

I never said Barry had a "Race Card" he wanted to play, I said he had a "Race Car" he wanted to "play in". There's a difference. One is a shiny toy he can sit in and make Indy car noises. The other is a something Plouffe is probably waving over his head in Indiana this very moment.

Sincerely
H. Dean

Don't forget your "Change you can belive in" sir! Yelled the waitress as I drove off..

This is very strange. It makes me think that this seemingly far-out blog post may have some credibility after all:

Bill Clinton’s Madness: A Consequence of Heart-Bypass
Surgery Brain Damage

During my 40 years of medical practice I have never heard a doctor warn a patient before bypass surgery that an expected complication is memory loss. After surgery when the family complains of dad’s fits of anger, I have never heard a doctor admit that personality change is a common consequence of surgery. Yet these well-recognized side effects have been reported in medical journals since 1969.1

Brain damage during bypass surgery is so common that hospital personnel refer to it as “pump head.” The primary cause is emboli produced during surgery from clamping the aorta and from the “heart-lung machine.” This machine pumps blood to keep the patient alive while the heart is stopped during the operation. Unfortunately, this pump also introduces toxic gases, fat globules, and bits of plastic debris into the bloodstream of the patient under anesthesia. Once they are in the bloodstream, these particles migrate to the brain where they can clog capillaries and prevent adequate amounts of blood and oxygen from flowing to the brain. Essentially, all patients experience brain emboli during surgery and for many the damage is permanent.

In 2001, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that 5-years after bypass surgery 42% of patients showed decline in mental function of approximately 20 percent or more.2 A study published this year (2008) in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery using MRI testing just after bypass surgery found brain damage in 51% of patients.3 Three years after their time on the bypass pump, significant permanent reduction in mental capacity was identified in 31% of patients. I am not talking major stroke here; but these patients can't remember names or numbers as they once did, experience sleep disturbances (including nightmares), suffer mood swings, and lose intellectual acuity. Approximately 30 percent of people suffer persistent depression and some even contemplate suicide.

Our former president needs our understanding and support. A simple explanation by his doctors of the cause of his recent aberrant behaviors should bring peace of mind to Hillary and her campaign staff. If Mr. Clinton better understood his current limitations, he and his staff could take precautionary steps to avoid embarrassments. A long-overdue explanation would help his adoring public more easily accept his mistakes and readily forgive him. It is not your fault, Mr. Clinton.

As importantly, public recognition of the harm done to Bill Clinton by the heart surgery business would help the patients who undergo bypass surgery, and their families, to better understand similar changes they have experienced. A little attention from the media could also shine some light on the lack of survival benefits from this $90,000 procedure performed nearly half-a-million times annually in the US, and the superior benefits coming from diet and lifestyle changes.

LOL... been missin' your insights of late.

She said it this morning on GMA, I don't think she said it on KO last night. But Scar. is right to highlight this - the majority of Democrats don't think this is a "winnable" war. She's entered John McBush land.

O. My. God.

They played the race card on me. I never said they played the race card on me. They played the race card on me.

Jesus, Bill.

So as he is denying saying it, he says it again!

Simply amazing!

Wow. I mean...just wow. What the hell happened to Bill Clinton?

Poor guy. I don't think he's well at all. Either that or he believes there's a substantial difference between these two statements:

I think that they played the race card on me

AND

The Obama campaign is playing the race card on me.

Oh, I get it! See...he wasn't saying they WERE playing the race card; he was saying HE THINKS they were.

Good lord.

Part of me hopes he is just confused and is not parsing like this. But the only alternative is that he is drifting away mentally, which is kind of sad. I would hate to see him destroy the respect the American people have for his presidency. Many folks I know think he was a fine president. His actions now could really overshadow his record/legacy.

Wow...
Senility, perhaps? Or, as others have suggested, early signs of alzheimer's disease (notice the petulance regarding what "they" are doing to him).
He'll get our mockery, but maybe he deserves our pity. If I were Chelsea, I'd strongly urge him to see a physician.
Any doctors in the house with insights on elders and mental health issues?

This pre-dates "You Tube" this is RADIO, one would think Bill had mastered this medium.

Touché.

When caught on tape or video, it becomes "misspeaking."

That's waaay too sinister! Next, you'll have me thinking that there are Communists under the bed....
they're behind the dooor....they're peeking from inside the cupboard!....
they're....they're....they're EVERYWHERE!!! AAAAAAGH!!!

Too bad for Hillary that Bill is the main story. It's not going to help her campaign.

And the comment about Obama? As weird as usual.

Seriously, if you're a Hillary supporter, Bill being the top story on any day is not good.

The drip drip drip you hear is superdelegates thinking "Do I really want to hear about Bill for the next four years???" followed by "Hmmm. Look! I've got Barack on speed dial!"

Obama's media? What, did Rupert Murdoch sell out to Obama and not let me know?

Shit, this was supposed to be in response to "GotNoLife" upthread.

The only disrespect I see is Bill's for the American people.

Well, Goatlife, you're right about one thing: I'm not a Democrat. I guess that makes Bill Clinton fair game.

Don't take the bait, fellow TPM posters.

No, you got that wrong. I can't speak to everyone's party affiliation. What I can tell you is that we're not members of the Clinton party. Even those of us that long supported them, especially Bill, do not automatically fall in line, standing silent while the Clintons spin lies and obfuscate the truth. We believe our country deserves leaders who are honest, most especially after 8 years of Bush, Cheney & Co.

What truly saddens is that for two years I've struggled with supporting Hillary. I wasn't able to shake this troubling sense that what's good for the Clintons would always trump the good of the country. Unfortunately, she's yet to give me a reason to believe otherwise.

...your party?

Of course she wouldn't say she had to win by 20% since she knows she won't. But the fact that remains that 9-15 pt victory will net her less than 20 delegates, which is simply not enough.

Sorry, but the baseline polling showed her less than 3 weeks ago winning PA by 20% and over.

After PA she will have netted less than 20 delegates, and nowhere near enough to put her on a path to overcoming even the artificial metric of the popular vote.

Given that Gov. Ed "I Heart Farrakhan" Rendell's political machine should have handed PA to her by over 20%, anything less than a 10-15% win by Clinton does nothing to change the dynamic of the race. A race which will end with Obama as the Democratic nominee, not let's nuke Iran Hillary "LeMay" Clinton.

It's pretty sad regardless of the explanation.