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  • 2016-07-29 (xsd:date)
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  • Barack Obama: 'Hillary Clinton Isn't Qualified to Be President' (en)
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  • In July 2016 an image featuring quotes attributed to Barack Obama, uttered in 2008 about his then political opponent Hillary Clinton, was circulated on social media just as Clinton was claiming the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination: The first half of the quote reproduced in the image, at least, can be loosely attributed to Barack Obama. Although he didn't actually say those words, the phrase she will say anything and change nothing was part of a voiceover narration used in a radio spot approved by Obama during the 2008 Democratic primaries: Although this radio attack ad focused on Clinton's trustworthiness, the phrase Hillary can't be trusted and isn't qualified to be president did not appear in it, and we found no record of Barack Obama's having otherwise uttered or used this phrase during the 2008 campaign. Such a charge would also have been problematic for the young Illinois senator to have made during the 2008 election, as back then Obama was seen as the more unqualified and inexperienced candidate compared to Hillary Clinton. Interestingly, when ABC News covered this ad in 2008, they presciently wrote that it was so harsh that they wouldn't be surprised if the GOP eventually used it against Hillary Clinton: (en)
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