Hillary and Bill Clinton: Smearing Barack Obama
Barack Obama's campaign team today accused Hillary Clinton's beleaguered staff of mounting a desperate dirty tricks operation by circulating a picture of him in African dress.
“There have been signals coming out of the Clinton campaign that have racial overtones that indeed disturb me. … I had a private conversation with a high-ranking person in the campaign … that used a racial line of argument that I found very disconcerting.” -Rep. Rob Andrews (D - NJ) (June 3, 2008) 
New analysis from the Washington Post removes any doubt that the anti-Obama Birther movement was started in 2007 and 2008 by Hillary Clinton, her campaign, and her Democrat supporters. As Breitbart News reported earlier this month, other left-wing media outlets, like Politico and the Guardian, had already traced the Birther movement back to Democrats and Ms. Clinton. -John Nolte
As early as January, Bill Clinton got his wife into hot water for a remark he made about the Obama "fairy tale," which former Clinton advisor Donna Brazile famously evoked as racist; and as race became an increasingly pivotal issue on the trail, the suggestion hung like a specter over Clinton's campaign until the end. -Ruby Cramer, BuzzFeed
Democrat, Liberal, Election, Character, Smears, Fear, Demagoguery, Islam, Drugs, Religion
Barack Obama's campaign team today accused Hillary Clinton's beleaguered staff of mounting a desperate dirty tricks operation by circulating a picture of him in African dress, feeding into false claims on US websites that he is a Muslim. Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, described it as "the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we've seen from either party in this election". Obama has had to spend much of the campaign stressing he is a Christian not a Muslim and did not study at a madrassa.
The Obama campaign has repeatedly claimed it has been the target of dirty tricks by the Clinton team. A senior member of her staff, Bill Shaheen, had to resign last year after raising Obama's admitted use of marijuana and cocaine as a youth.
Hillary Clinton 2008 Birther Origins
A former McClatchy Washington Bureau chief said on Twitter earlier today that close Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal told him to his face in 2008 that then Senator Barack Obama was born in Kenya, and he should send a reporter there to check it out. -Debra Heine
Democrat, Liberal, Racism, Smears, Politics
Geraldine A. Ferraro, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1984 who was on the Clinton finance committee, resigned from the campaign after being criticized by Mr. Obama’s advisers, among others, for her recent comments that “if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position” as a leading presidential contender.
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Liberal, Racism, Oops, Politics, Tolerance
A series of comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband, and her supporters are spurring a racial backlash and adding a divisive edge to the presidential primary as the candidates head south to heavily African-American South Carolina.
Democrat, Racism, Smears, Politics
Bill Clinton helped sink his wife's chances for an endorsement from Ted Kennedy by belittling Barack Obama as nothing but a race-based candidate.
"A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee," the former president told the liberal lion from Massachusetts, according to the gossipy new campaign book, "Game Change."
"I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values." -Mark Penn, chief strategist to Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign for president