“Don’t be accusatory with me!” snapped Bill Clinton. “I have enough to deal with.” This latest outburst was not directed at a special prosecutor or the Republican attack machine. No, it was in response to a reporter’s question on why he supported a lawsuit that would deny some casino workers the right to vote in the upcoming Nevada Caucus. The Mayor of Oakland tried to physically pull Clinton away from the reporter, but Bill did not budge. Instead, he stayed put long enough to claim that those votes will be “rigged.”

Almost a year ago, the local and national Democratic Party and all the major candidates or their surrogates agreed to have at-large caucus sites at casinos so that casino workers who want to caucus, many of the union members, could take an hour break and participate in the democratic process. Well, that was when Hillary was seen as the “inevitable” winner of both the Culinary Workers Union (the largest union in Nevada) endorsement and the Presidency. Now her 2-1 lead has vanished and the Culinary Workers have endorsed Obama. So two days after Obama got that endorsement, a group supporting Clinton decided to sue, saying it was unfair that these workers would get to be at work and caucus at the same time (Yeah, I know…sounds really crazy). So when the reporter asked Bill if he should take a stronger stand against a suit that could prevent tens of thousands of people from voting, he decided to take the opposite route and blew up.

“Do you really believe that all the Democrats understood that they had agreed to give everybody who voted in a casino a vote worth five times as much as people who voted in their own precinct? Did you know that?” Mr. Clinton said in a testy exchange with a television reporter, Mark Matthews of KGO. “What happened is nobody understood what had happened. … Now, everybody’s saying, ‘Oh they don’t want us to vote.’ What they really tried to do was to set up a deal where their votes counted five times, maybe even more.”

According to party officials, they did understand. Oh, and the part about the votes counting “five times as much or more,” is nonsense too.Of course, this is just the latest in a series of asshole moves by the ex-President. It started a month ago with an interview on Charlie Rose. He likened Obama to a ”gifted television commentator” who had “less than on year of experience in national politics.” Then made his now infamous remark that a President Obama would be a “roll of the dice.” This, despite Bill Clinton having one year less foreign policy experience than Barack Obama when he became President.

As Hillary sat back and watched, Bill continued his assault every few days when he didn‘t think he was getting enough camera time. A week ago, when responding to a question about chief pollster and Clinton campaign strategist Mark Penn, Clinton made headlines again when he launched into a controversial diatribe, claiming that Obama has not been consistently against the War in Iraq, declaring that notion “the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.” Apparently, it was bigger than the fairy tale he had told a month ago when he proclaimed for the first time that he “has been against the war from the beginning.”

Today he’s spinning a different weave of bullshit, this time claiming that instead of the fresh face on the scene, Obama is actually the “establishment” candidate. Yes, that’s right, he meant Obama, not Clinton. The two term Senator from New York who’s husband was President for eight years, who has the support of most elected Nevada politicians, the majority of Nevada Democratic Party officials, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s son Rory Reid, a Clark County Commission member, is running an outsider campaign against the “establishment” candidate Obama, all because he won over the endorsement of one union.

“Don’t be accusatory with me! I have enough to deal with,” he said to the reporter before leaving in a huff. Yes, he does. If he doesn’t have his way tomorrow when the court decides on the suit, he’ll be dealing with another defeat.

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Trevor Timm is a Blast Magazine staff writer