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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Speaking of negative ads....

The Washington Post

Dana Milbank
Dana Milbank
Opinion Writer 

The ugly presidential campaign

Forgive me, but I’m not prepared to join this walk down Great Umbrage Street just yet. Yes, it’s ugly out there. But is this worse than four years ago, when Obama was accused by the GOP vice presidential nominee of “palling around with terrorists”? Or eight years ago, when Democratic nominee John Kerry was accused of falsifying his Vietnam War record?

What’s different this time is that the Democrats are employing the same harsh tactics that have been used against them for so long, with so much success. They have ceased their traditional response of assuming the fetal position when attacked, and Obama’s campaign is giving as good as it gets — and then some. 

Read it at The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dana-milbank-the-ugly-presidential-campaign/2012/08/15/22b72006-e726-11e1-8f62-58260e3940a0_story.html?hpid=z2

 

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