Obama and Hillary already going negative and dishonest.

Eager to prove that Republicans aren’t the only ones who can launch headlong into negative and dishonest campaigning, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have already gone negative against one another, and are doing so completely dishonestly.

FactCheck.org, a non-partisan project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, says that:

• Clinton falsely accused Obama of saying he “really liked the ideas of the Republicans” including private Social Security accounts and deficit spending. Not true. The entire 49-minute interview to which she refers contains no endorsement of private Social Security accounts or deficit spending, and Obama specifically scorned GOP calls for tax cuts.

• Obama falsely denied endorsing single-payer government health insurance when he first ran for the Senate, saying, “I never said that we should try to go ahead and get single-payer.” But in fact he gave a speech in 2003 saying, “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer health care program.”

I was watching Dan Abrams earlier, and he made the fairly accurate statement that we might expect Hillary to go negative (I’m not sure why), but Barack was always supposed to be above the fray, the guy who’d bring us all together and clean up the discourse and all of that. Just goes to show, you don’t need Rove to go ugly and dishonest.

I think I’ll go back to real news tomorrow, this primary season crap is starting to wear me down.