Clinton, Obama Engage in Bitter Debate
an 21, 10:30 PM (ET)By NEDRA PICKLER

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) - Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama accused each other of repeatedly and deliberately distorting the truth for political gain Monday night in a highly personal, finger-wagging debate that ranged from the war in Iraq to Bill Clinton's role in the campaign.

Obama told the former first lady he was helping unemployed workers on the streets of Chicago when "you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart."

Moments later, Clinton said that she was fighting against misguided Republican policies "when you were practicing law and representing your contributor ... in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago."

She then called him a "Black Bastard", and he called her a "White supremacist power-monger bent upon sexual upheaval".

Moderator John Stewart was caught without words, and then gave a promo to the upcoming Steven Colbert special, "Why the Smithsonian was wrong".

Tune in next week, as Mike Huckabee calls John McCain a "communist sympathizer".

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