'Negative campaign' discussion, moment on Hardball

Posted: Friday, December 14, 2007 12:57 PM by Hardball

One of the top officials running Hillary Clinton’s New Hampshire campaign has been forced to quit Thursday night after slurring Barack Obama and setting off a small firestorm about negative campaigning.

The Clinton campaign denied authorizing controversial comments about Barack Obama’s acknowledged adolescent drug use. Hours before yesterday’s Iowa debate, Hillary Clinton apologized to Barack Obama - and he told her leadership had to come from the top to stop negative campaigning.

But despite Clinton denials - and even after the apology, Clinton strategist Mark Penn brought up cocaine on Hardball. Click here to watch the video clip.

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