The 'race' issue seemed to get under Bill's skin yesterday:

In a further indication of just how perturbed Bill Clinton has been with this campaign, Bill made the following accusation against the Obama camp on a local Philadelphia radio show yesterday: "I think that they played the race card on me. We now know, from memos from the campaign that they planned to do it along."

It's not entirely clear what "memos" Bill might be referring to. The closest such memo in existence is one the Obama campaign put out a while ago, accusing the Clinton people of playing the race card on various occasions.

After the interview had officially ended, but while his microphone was still on, Bill upped the ante: "I don't think I should take any shit from anybody on that, do you?"

Eric Kleefeld - Bill Clinton: Obama Camp Memos Reveal Plan To Play The Race Card On Me TPM 22 Apr 08

On first impression somebody's just not letting it go.  I thought this probably would get smothered by election result reporting but interesting nonetheless.  Not arguing the point but just noting the exchange, OK?  But today the issue cropped up again, as you imagine it might:

Today in Pittsburgh, Clinton was asked what he meant by saying the Obama campaign was playing the race card on him.

"When did I say that, and to whom did I say that?" Clinton asked, per ABC News' Sarah Amos.

"On WHYY radio yesterday," he was told by an NBC/National Journal reporter.

"No, no, no," Clinton said. "That's not what I said. You always follow me around and play these little games, and I'm not going to play your games today. This is a day about election day. Go back and see what the question was, and what my answer was. You have mischaracterized it to get another cheap story to divert the American people from the real urgent issues before us, and I choose not to play your game today. Have a nice day."

Huh?

That's exactly what he said.

"I said what I said," Clinton said. "You can go back and look at the interview and if you will be real honest you will also report what the question was and what the answer was.  But I'm not helping you."

Jake Tapper - Revisionism In Record Time ABC 22 Apr 08

If there's anything I've learned from a close following of the rhetoric in this election cycle it's to expect a certain Orwellian artistic freedom in the spin of surrogates and their subsequent explanations of egregious characterisations of their opponents or the truth.  But doesn't this threaten to set a new gold standard for outright denial or revisionism?  Or maybe even draw aside the curtain and show us the mere mortal who is furiously working the controls behind the scenes?  I look forward with delicious anticipation to the creative writing challenge this presents to Hillary supporters.  Go for it and best of luck to you all.