SHOT: DOES HILLARY HAVE A SID BLUMENTHAL BIRTHER PROBLEM?

Chaser: “Obama campaign manager David Plouffe accused the Clinton campaign Monday of ‘shameful offensive fear-mongering’ by circulating a photo as an attempted smear,” the Politico reported in February of 2008. “Plouffe said in a statement: ‘On the very day that Senator Clinton is giving a speech about restoring respect for America in the world, her campaign has engaged in the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we’ve seen from either party in this election. This is part of a disturbing pattern that led her county chairs to resign in Iowa, her campaign chairman to resign in New Hampshire, and it’s exactly the kind of divisive politics that turns away Americans of all parties and diminishes respect for America in the world,’ said Plouffe.”

As the McClatchy News Service reported yesterday, during the 2008 campaign, “former McClatchy Washington Bureau Chief James Asher tweeted Friday that Blumenthal had ‘told me in person’ that Obama was born in Kenya…‘Blumenthal and I met together in my office and he strongly urged me to investigate the exact place of President Obama’s birth, which he suggested was in Kenya. We assigned a reporter to go to Kenya, and that reporter determined that the allegation was false.’”

Here’s the photo that caused all the commotion: