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  it is focused on personal attacks and smears
That's not a fair characterization at all. Arguments which hurt your feelings aren't necessarily ad hominem.


Do you believe that the media's focus on Bill Clinton's sex life during the 1990s was anything but a smear? The Republicans wanted to win arguments on national policy not on the basis of the soundness of his policies, but on something that was not (and still is not) any of our business.




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