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Background from our friends at Election 08:

Geraldine Ferraro—usually a class act—made recent statements that seem to establish a pattern: the Clinton campaign using surrogates to invoke and inject race in this campaign. The Ferraro event…the leaks to Drudge…BET founder Robert L. Johnson…Bill’s South Carolina non-sequitur.

But for a classic moment of a Clinton rep (in this case Mark Penn) quietly inserting loaded language, check this out (about 3:50 in).

They play dirty.

While groups such as Factcheck.org have made compelling arguments against the likelihood the Clinton camp intentionally altered Obama’s image…it’s an odd argument that assumes anything in campaign commercials happens by accident. Check out the debate, judge for yourself.