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[Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Dirty politics have been around as long as the country has:

Stuck In the Muck
Mudslinging Isn't New. Here's the Messy Truth.

By Libby Copeland
Washington Post Staff Writer

You want to talk dirty politics? Oh, we'll talk dirty. We'll talk about 
. . . 1800!

Thomas Jefferson was attacked by ministers who accused him of being an 
"infidel" and an "unbeliever." A Federalist cartoon depicted him as a 
drunken anarchist, and the president of Yale warned that if Jefferson 
came to power, "we may see our wives and daughters the victims of legal 
prostitution." A Connecticut newspaper warned that his election would 
mean "murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will openly be taught 
and practiced" -- though the paper, which is now the Hartford Courant, 
did apologize some years later.

Read the whole article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/12/AR2008101201966_pf.html

Lynn Wigglesworth


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