Is it throwing mud to accuse another candidate of throwing mud? nt

[hedgehog]

[phen43]

1. huh?

could you clarify?

[hedgehog]

4. Obama is pointing out the differences between himself and Senator

Clinton. According to her camp, that's throwing mud.

[phen43]

7. oh!!

thanks, well of course Obama is in no way slinging any mud, just highlighting the differences in how each of them stands on the issues in a forceful way!!! I mean if he said that she was a total jerk for staying with her husband after the way things went back in the 90's, staying with him to further her political career, now that would be mud-slinging!!!

[pennylane100]

2. If the person you are throwing mud at

is the person who threw mud at you, it is not throwing mud, you are merely returning their property.

[tbyg52]

3. LOL! nt

[LWolf]

5. Politics:

[hedgehog]

6. Not necessarily. There was a time when two people could disagree

and treat each other with respect. JFK was looking forward to thrashing things out with Goldwater in a series of debates.

[LWolf]

8. Before my time.

I was just 3 when JFK was assassinated, and old enough to watch the RFK news on tv, but my first real awareness of politics was Watergate. And then, of course, Reagan.