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Iraq and the Elusive WMD's
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Mud-slinging is hardly a Republican tactic. The Democrats let fly by the bucketfuls when they get a chance. In fact, it's a time-honored tradition in American politics:

One of the most vitriolic elections was in 1828.

John Quincy Adams was nicknamed "The Pimp" by the campaign of his opponent General Andrew Jackson, based on a rumour that he had once coerced a young woman into an affair with a Russian nobleman when he had been American ambassador to Russia.

Adams' supporters hit back with a pamphlet which claimed: "General Jackson's mother was a common prostitute brought to this country by British solders! She afterwards married a mulatto man with whom she had several children of which number General Jackson is one!!" Jackson won anyway.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3493277.stm
Dan LeClair
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