WASHINGTON (AP) - Supporters of both Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton agree on at least one thing -- that Obama's campaign shouldn't have let a retired general accuse Bill Clinton of McCarthyism.
The fracas started when the former president spoke last week in North Carolina, saying it would be great to have an election between "two people who loved this country" and focused on the issues instead of other distractions.
Retired General Merrill McPeak accused Clinton of questioning Obama's patriotism, and likened the comments to communist-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy.
On "Fox News Sunday," Obama supporter and New Mexico governor Bill Richardson said he doesn't think Clinton was trying to be divisive, and added that the campaign was getting too negative.
A Clinton supporter, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, said McPeak's inference was unfair. He says the Obama team tries to "have it both ways" -- calling for an end to negative campaigning, but then accusing someone of McCarthyism.
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