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Hugabear

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5. "Politics of personal destruction"

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Jan 19, 2012, 06:13 PM

Jan 2012

So says the party that ran the "Swift-boat" campaign against Kerry in 2004, and engaged in character assassination against Rev. Wright in 2008.

Spoken by the person who said nothing when one of her sycophants shouted "TERRORIST, KILL HIM!" regarding Obama at one of her rallies.

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