Drive-by defamation
By Jeff Jacoby | wednesday, March 26, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…Politics, as they say, ain’t beanbag. Unfair accusations have been lobbed in the heat of presidential campaigns for as long as presidential campaigns have been heated. In 1796, historian Paul Boller records, John Adams was denounced by Thomas Jefferson’s partisans as ‘an avowed friend of monarchy,’ who intended to make his sons ‘Lords of this country.’ Adams’s Federalist followers called Jefferson a ‘Franco-maniac’ favored by ‘cut-throats who walk in rags and sleep amidst filth and vermin.’
The current presidential contest has not – so far – generated any charges of secret monarchism or Francomania. Bum raps and low blows, however, have not been lacking….”…BS
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