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Bill Clinton: 'I Am Not a Racist'

Posted on: Monday, 4 August 2008, 18:00 CDT

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said he's said things he's regretted while campaigning for his wife, Hillary Clinton, but he never made a racist comment.

There are things that I wish I'd urged her to do, things I wish I had said, things I wish I hadn't said, Clinton said Monday on ABC's Good Morning America. But I am not a racist. I never made a racist comment, and I didn't attack (Barack Obama) personally.

During Hillary Clinton's primary run to be the Democratic presidential nominee against Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive candidate, Bill Clinton was accused of making remarks that were racially insensitive.

Clinton was in the midst on a four-country swing in Africa for his foundation, where he is working on nutrition programs to help HIV-invested children when he spoke on Good Morning America. He said, despite reports to the contrary, he isn't angry with Obama.

I never was mad at Senator Obama, Clinton told ABC. I think everybody's got a right to run for president, to qualify as under the Constitution, and I would be the last person to ever begrudge anybody their ambition.

Source: United Press International

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