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A grand American tradition: The smear

chicagotribune.com — You want nasty politics? Drop in on the Founding Fathers. Between what those guys had to say about one another, and what their partisans had to say, one could construct an encyclopedia of slanders. It's not what you heard in school, of course, but it is somehow consoling to note how unbelievably vile politicians were early in the nation's history.

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  • acmaurer, on 06/30/2008, -5/+8I guess history DOES repeat itself...
    • BrentDPayne, on 07/01/2008, -1/+1Or no matter how advanced humankind thinks they are becoming . . . we are changing at all. ;-)
  • BCCStu, on 06/30/2008, -5/+9Smeartastic.
  • AmyVernon, on 06/30/2008, -5/+6anyone who watched the Adams miniseries on HBO can see just how magnanimous our founding fathers were. that said, their achievement was astounding. it took a bunch of geniuses of different sorts who were totally full of themselves to achieve this grand experiment called the U.S. of A.
    • ColonelTribune, on 06/30/2008, -5/+4I still haven't seen that yet. I really have to get HBO again!
      • BoonTobias, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3how dare you not have hbo, *****!
  • mofo269, on 06/30/2008, -4/+6It seems like those guys should have been above all of that. But I guess they were human :)
    • ColonelTribune, on 06/30/2008, -4/+3That's why I love all of those 'Founding Father'-type books. Hamilton, Franklin, Washington, Adams, etc. Lots of interesting tidbits we weren't taught in school!
  • BohicaTwentyTwo, on 06/30/2008, -1/+10As long as our politicians don't start shooting at each other, its all fair game.
    • spinchange, on 06/30/2008, -5/+6Don't forget, I think Cheney is the first VP to shoot someone since Burr.
      • ColonelTribune, on 06/30/2008, -1/+4Alexander Hamilton WAS a little more high-profile, though.
      • ssn697, on 06/30/2008, -1/+5Lightly pepper someone... LIGHTLY PEPPER...

        LOL. Still my all-time fav on the subject. Not shot in the face, lightly peppered.
  • kponto, on 06/30/2008, -0/+5Bunch of nancies nowadays; calling for clean campaigns. Phooey! That's realmanpolitik there.
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