Bill Clinton Pulls the Race Card.

I just can't stand the guy. Arguably he was a less-bad president than Obama, but I can't stand him. It's partly the unctuous-preacher/redneck-playboy smarm that's so irritating. As I've probably said here before, I can see him playing the Bible salesman in a movie of Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People." 

I wonder if the race card isn't about played out, though, because of its indiscriminate and often absurd use. As you probably heard, the absurdity reached some kind of pinnacle a few days ago with journalist (?) Lawrence O'Donnell's assertion that making fun of Obama's fondness for golf is a "racial double entendre."

This is supposedly one of those Republican "dog whistle" signals meant to encourage the KKK types who make up the base of the party. Yet it seems to be only Democrats who hear them. As someone (James Taranto, maybe?) said the other day, if you can hear the dog whistle, you're the dog.