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April 22, 2008

Obama: WJC "Dismissed" My SC Victory

Barack Obama expressed shock this morning upon hearing that former President Bill Clinton said the IL Sen played the race card against him.

"Hold on a second," Obama said during a stop at a Pittsburgh diner. "So former President Clinton dismissed my victory in South Carolina as being similar to Jesse Jackson, and he's suggesting that somehow I had something to do with it?"

"Ok, well you better ask him what he meant by that," Obama said. "These were words that came out of his mouth."

Asked if there was any planned attempt by Obama's campaign, as Clinton suggested, to get the former POTUS to make a racially-oriented comment, Obama dismissed the suggestion.

"Was there something that we had a plan to get him to say that my campaign was like Jesse Jackson's? You know, I don't know what he's referring to, unfortunately," Obama said.

(NBC/NJ's ASWINI ANBURAJAN)


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