SNIFF. There’s the pneumonia again. He’s still saying that the birth certificate story was a great thing for the nation, for people of color, for the president. “It can’t be dismissed that easily,” says Clinton. “He started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president wasn’t born in America.” And reminds that all the way back in 1973 he was being sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent to blacks. “The birther lie was a very hurtful one. Barack Obama is a man of great dignity. He was bothered… by how this was used against him.” Quotes Michelle: “When they go low, we go high. And he went high.”