Bubba subconsiously sabotaging Hillary?

The more former President Bill Clinton campaigns for is wife Hillary for the Democratic presidential nomination, the worse it seems to get for her.

Bubba was a tremendous campaigner and politician in his own right, running for president and re-election. It is not a stretch to surmise that psychologically he cannot handle the thought of four humiliating years as First Gentlemen, or whatever the White House protocol chief would instruct everyone to call him, and is at least subconciously sabotaging Hillary's campaign.

There is little else that would adequately explain the rookie gaffes he has made to cause Hillary a bunch of problems. Bill is a much more deft, polished campaigner than he has shown in Hillary's behalf. He has made many bad mistakes in this misguided effort, but two stand out as just plain stupid.

Bill knows better than:

1. The South Carolina race baiting, where he recited the history of how Jesse Jackson had won the Democratic primary there, so there was nothing unusual about Obama being ahead in South Carolina. What Bill said was probably true, but very impolitic and ignited racial passions that have been very much to the detriment of Hillary. Poetess Maya Angelou has called Bill the nation's first black president, and he moved his post-presidential office to Harlem. It is nearly inexcuseable and completely incompetent that Bill managed to turn this major advantage to dust.

2. Reminding voters in Indiana last week of Hillary's lies about her First Lady trip to Bosnia and running off the plane through sniper fire, cancelling the opening ceremonies. This was an outright fabrication, as CBS news footage from the event showed, as a little girl read Hillary a poem and gave her flowers, with no evidence of danger of any kind.

Obama's recent gaffes about working class Democrats in Pennsylvania, Indiana and his native Illinois in small towns being bitter and seeking refuge in guns, church and anti-illegal immigration efforts were as damaging to him as his pastor Jeremiah Wright's black power sermons pandering to Muslims like Louis Farakhan. This had buried Hillary's embarassing falsehoods in voter's minds, until Bill brought it all up again in a ham-handed attempt to justify what she had said.

A cardinal rule of politics is to let sleeping dogs lie, and that's certainly what had happened for Hillary, courtesy of Obama's elitist rhetoric to the toney San Francisco fundraiser.

Hillary and John McCain, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, have been handed a big gift by Obama and are working hard to capitalize on it.

One can only hope that Bubba doesn't give it all back, with his pathetic campaign performances.