The ethos of the modern-day campaign is not to sweep unpleasantness under the rug but rather to expose the mud your opponents are slinging at you, in the hope that the charge of mudslinging will stick to your opponent (and that the actual mud will simply slide off you).

Call it Clintonian:

 

 

Breaking — Gen. Wesley Clark responds to the latest Obama attack:

“This is a time for leadership, not politics. Senator Obama’s campaign seems to believe that Senator Clinton’s actions led to the tragic events in Pakistan. This is an incredible and insulting charge. It politicizes a tragic event of enormous strategic consequence to the United States and the world, and it has no place in this campaign.”

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Headline: Obama Says It Would Be ‘Madness’ To Elect ‘Same People…Over Again’ and Expect Change

Source: abcnews.com

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Obama attacks Clintons, says ‘problems were there long before George Bush ever took office.’

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

 Clever.