Earlier this month former President Jimmy Carter tried to blame President Obama's problems on his race saying, "I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American." Now former President Bill Clinton is "helping" President Obama by dragging out the old vast, right-wing conspiracy accusation. With friends like these, who needs vast conspiracies?

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Appearing on NBC's Meet The Press, Mr. Clinton was asked about his affair with Monica Lewinsky and his wife's claim at the time that there was a "vast, right-wing conspiracy" out to destroy his presidency. When asked if the conspiracy was still there, he replied "You bet. Sure it is. It's not as strong as it was because America has changed demographically. But it's as virulent as it was." (source)

And so two men who certainly should know better, are portraying the President of the United States as a victim. Rather than defend the current administration's policies, they are making excuses for the unpopularity of those policies. At a time when domestic issues such as health care reform and deficit spending are on everyone's mind, multiple plots of terrorist activity on our soil have been uncovered and international nuclear tensions have reached an almost fevered pitch, Mr. Carter and Mr. Clinton are further weakening the current president's standing by playing the race card and whining about the political opposition.

As two of only four other men alive who have actually felt the weight of that office (and the two who supposedly share President Obama's ideology) one would think they would be offering positive support for the current president's policies. But it seems that even they cannot come up with anything more than excuses and paranoid accusations for why those policies are failing.