ABC news blog:

President Clinton has been touting his wife’s commitment to Africa on the campaign trail by telling interested voters that “Hillary was the first U.S. Senator to call Darfur genocide.” He used that exact line with voters in Aiken, S.C., yesterday, and it has been pointed out more than once over the course of this campaign.

The usually shy Chelsea also touted her mother’s record on Darfur, telling a group at Stanford University earlier this month that she was “really proud that my mom was the first Democratic senator to call it genocide in May of 2004 and put a lot of pressure on the Bush administration to recognize it as genocide.”

Problem is, the statements simply aren’t true.

So what else is new? But Bill Clinton boasting about his wife’s stance on genocide in Africa? It took a commenter to note this:

During the Rwandan genocide, the Clinton administration — despite credible information to the contrary — refused to call what was happening “genocide.” Madeleine Albright steadfastly called it “acts of genocide” and said the US had no strategic interests in sub-Saharan Africa to warrant any involvement. Although the actual killing spree ran 100 days and 800,000 lives, the Clinton administration knew months earlier that preparations were underway for some kind of “event.”