'Dirtiest Campaign,' Really, Cindy?Despite Smears in 2000, Cindy McCain Calls Obama's the 'Dirtiest Campaign Ever'
John McCain's bid for the White House eight years ago was largely derailed by a whispering campaign during the South Carolina primary that claimed his wife was a drug addict and his adopted daughter was the result of an out-of-wedlock affair.
Since Cindy McCain and her daughter were targeted so viciously eight years ago, observers were taken aback earlier this week when she called Sen. Barack Obama's 2008 campaign "the dirtiest campaign in American history."
The 2000 South Carolina GOP primary has earned a reputation as one of the sleaziest in recent memory. Through anonymous phone calls and fliers, opponents spread the rumor among the state's conservative Republican primary voters that Cindy McCain was a drug addict and the couple's daughter Bridget, adopted from Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh, was fathered by McCain out of wedlock.
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Given her role in being on the sharp end of one of the most notorious political smears in recent years, some wonder if she meant what she said this week about Obama's tactics or if she was simply caught up in the moment.
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