The only reason donkeys are running from Hillary's role in birtherism is that they have convinced themselves that birtherism was racist. At the start anyway, it wasn't. It was a legitimate question about a candidate's qualifications; a candidate, I might add, who had promoted himself as being born in Kenya earlier in his life. Once Obama produced his long form birth certificate from Hawaii, I can understand how people would think continuing to believe Obama was born in Kenya has racist underpinnings (although I disagree), but, in any event, that was not the case in 2008 when Hillary was campaigning against him. So from my perspective, although I don't doubt that Hillary's campaign wanted to use the issue in 2008, I also don't really view that as a criticism. Of course she did; disqualifying your opponent is a viable way to win.
