Ugly: ; Campaign Attacks

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It's disheartening to see the 2008 presidential campaign sink into smear tactics. This raises ugly echoes of the false Swift Boat accusations of 2004 and the racist Willie Horton ads of 1988.

Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin stooped to mud- slinging by saying Democrat Barack Obama "pals around with terrorists" because he served on boards with Dr. William Ayers, a 60- year-old University of Illinois distinguished professor who was a youthful leader of the radical Weather Underground one-third of a century ago, opposing the Vietnam War in the 1970s when Obama was a tot.

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Ugly: ; Campaign Attacks

The McCain-Palin ticket should beware of such hatchet jobs, because both G...

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