It sounds like sour grapes coming from the former Commander-in-Chief, someone that many Democrats hold in high esteem.  For him to go after Obama using "fairy tale," calling him a "kid," as he did last week, it's an insult.  And I tell you, as an African-American, I find his words and his tone to be very depressing.

I think his tone, I think calling Barack Obama a "kid," he's a United States Senator, he's experienced, the people of Illinois elected him, and regardless of what kind of items on his resume, this is a man who has worked all his life. ... I think, for Bill Clinton to go out of his way to become a distraction to Hillary Clinton, and to launch the kind of attacks on Obama is just out of character for Bill Clinton.

I think she's on to something here.  Bill Clinton is no dummy.  How many steps further from "kid" is calling him "boy"?  A 46 year-old, sitting U.S. Senator?  In fairness to the other side, I found Mitt Romney's straight-faced smear of Hillary Clinton as an "intern" equally disgusting. 

But frankly, I'm not surprised when Mitt Romney says something blatantly sexist—I wouldn't be surprised if he suddenly became a Nazi apologist, if he thought it would win him a primary or two. 

I am surprised, and dismayed, however, when the "first black president" starts firing racial innuendo at the first viable African-American presidential candidate in history.