Bill Clinton discusses racism against Obama

Former United States President Bill Clinton spoke with CNN on Monday to discuss the allegations of racism against those who oppose President Barack Obama.

In an interview to air Monday evening, former President Clinton sat down with CNN’s Larry King to discuss South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson’s “You lie!” comment and former President Jimmy Carter’s assessment of the race situation in America. The former Arkansas governor says he doesn’t believe that everyone who opposes the President is racist but that some criticism of him is still racially motivated, according to CNN. Nonetheless, Clinton advised the Democratic Party to focus their attention on health care reform and the President’s plan. He showed support and told his party that this is a hard fight they need to win. “I believe that some of the right-wing extremists which oppose President Obama are also racially prejudiced and would prefer not to have an African-American president,” Clinton said. However, not everyone who opposes the President’s health care reform plan are racists. The former President explained that if the President was white and had a plan similar to Obama’s, the people who oppose it now would still oppose it then. Clinton concluded in the interview, “I really think that we should disaggregate lingering problems of discrimination from the attacks to which the president is subject.”