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Is it Just Me
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Originally posted by taxwonk
I would definitely be in agreement with you if she weren't working for the campaign. I think that somehow requires her to share a portion of the public figure burden. If she weren't campaigning I would agree with you and Bilmore entirely.
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To some extent you're right, and certainly the B/C04 campaign has been quick to draw attention to George P. Bush's being (and looking) Hispanic. But the Mary Cheney thing sort of stings of John McCain's "black child" in my mind. While the McCain whisper smear was untrue, the intent was to get voters not to vote for him based on their own prejudices.
Also this is disturbing. I was searching for a reference to the South Carolina whisper campaign and this ended up in the serch results:
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Last edited by Replaced_Texan; 10-14-2004 at 01:12 PM..
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