Dirty Politics

Shock and Sadness: Hearing The Unspeakable

Jeannie Ralston | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Obama Assassination Threats, Dirty Politics, Barack Obama, Republicans, Wealthy Republicans, Greenwich, Greenwich Connecticut, 2008 Presidential Race, Republican Elite, Politics News
Jeannie Ralston

How terrible that there are people, even "refined, well-mannered" people, who are so self-interested, so self-serving that they have lost a basic sense of humanity.

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Cyber-Wars: Hate-Mail And The Obama Internet Campaign

Linda Hansen | Posted 11.27.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Citizen Campaigns, Obama/Biden Campaign, Internet Politics, Dirty Politics, Campaign 2008, Internet Hate-Mail, Barack Obama, McCain/Palin Campaign, Offthebus, Obama Email, Obama Internet, Mccain Internet Smear, Mccain Email, Barack Obama 2008, Obama Internet Smear, Viral Email, Home News
Linda Hansen

Internet Obama supporters are no saints. But Campaign 2008, to them, means something more than an outlet for the anger they've been swallowing for the past eight years. Their emails ring like testimonies at an interfaith revival meeting.

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Growing Up Right -- Learning Political Lessons From the 'Rents

Bill Hoversten-Davis | Posted 11.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Election 2008, Offthebus, Billy Graham, Communism, John Birch Society, Knott's Berry Farm, John McCain, Dirty Politics, Children, Negative Attacks, Raising Children, Barack Obama, Home News
Bill Hoversten-Davis

My strict but loving parents instilled notions of religion, ethics, obedience, good citizenship -- and politics. Early on, I learned right was right and left was wrong.

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How Small-Town America Taught Me to Be Open-Minded

Jeannie Ralston | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Rural America, Evangelical Christians, Dirty Politics, Hypocrisy, Open-Minded, Liberal, Democrats, Tolerance, Right-Wing Extremism, Republicans, Living News
Jeannie Ralston

To be part of a small town, or at least my small town, I had to be more broadminded than I had been living in a big city.

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McCain's Lessons Of Bigotry Would Carry Over Into His Administration

Jeanine Molloff | Posted 11.14.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Mccain Muslims, McCain Obama, Dirty Politics, Obama McCain, Racism, Obama Muslim, Election 2008, Mccain Campaign Tactics, Mccain Rallies, Home News
Jeanine Molloff

Police have harassed my friend because she looks Middle Eastern. She has been threatened with arrest and possible deportation--all due to the fearful climate of ignorance and bigotry incited first by Bush, then later by McCain-Palin.

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We Don't Need to Fight Dirty

Jeannie Ralston | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hate-Mongering, Mccain Dirty Politics, Dirty Politics, Presidential Campaign, Palin, Obama, Mccain, Hate Speech, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jeannie Ralston

What Obama knows and what we can emulate is this: we can offer a poised defense, but we don't have to get down and dirty with the Republicans we encounter.

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Skanks Gotta Stick Together

Disgrasian | Posted 11.12.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Dirty Campaign Tricks, Nicole Scherzinger, Sarah Palin Vp, Rubber Dresses, Latex Dresses, Palin Smears Obama, Dirty Politics, Latex, Smears, Sarah Palin, The Pussycat Dolls, Sarah Palin Vice President, Rubbers, Sex Education, Obama Smears, Entertainment News
Disgrasian

2008-10-13-pullpalin.jpg The Pussycat Dolls' Nicole Scherzinger said this week that she'd welcome Sarah Palin into her group if the Republican ticket fails in November.

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Going Beyond the Pale-in: (Character) Assassination

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Assassination, John McCain, Lee Atwater, Barack Obama, Karl Rove, Sarah Palin, Dirty Politics, Negative Attacks, Palin Winking, McCain Campaign, 2008 Election, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

When does character assassination cross the line and begin to encourage physical assassination?

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Barack Obama Just Loves Young White Women

Disgrasian | Posted 08.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Paris Hilton, John McCain, Britney Spears, Dirty Politics, Smears, Race, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Obama Celebrity, Politics News
Disgrasian

In watching "Celeb" about 25 times over, the thought never once struck us that Obama was being defamed with the insinuation that he likes to dabble in "young white women." What made us even go there?

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Goodbye to St. Barack

Caryl Rivers | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Smear Campaigns, Richard Nixon, Dirty Politics, Barack Obama Blue Majority, Bipartisanship, Dick Tuck, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News
Caryl Rivers

It would be nice if Obama reached across the aisle to like-minded Republicans, but the fact is, if he wants to get anything done, he should push hard to see that the Democrats get a majority in the House and Senate.

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Dirty Politics: "Confessions Of A Political Hitman"

ABC News | MARCUS BARAM | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guy Millner, Max Cleland, Political Hitman, Opposition Research, Dirty Politics, Stephen Marks, Politics News

...Stephen Marks, an opposition research specialist for more than 12 years, worked on some of the most competitive bare-knuckles elections in recent y...

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Sam Stein

Could Romney Be Behind the Anti-Mormon N.H. Phone Calls?

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Phone Calls, Romney, 2008 Campaign, Dirty Politics, Anti-Mormon, Politics News

Something fishy is going on in New Hampshire and Iowa. Voters in the two early primary states have recently been getting phone calls raising questions...

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