campaigning is toxic is bogus. everybody on both sides of the aisle believes it s modern, believes we never used to do this. it s crazy. one campaign i talk about is the andrew jackson/john quincy adams campaign jackson was accused of cannibalism. his wife was described as a bigami bigamist, his wimother as a prostitute, and those were the nice things that were said and that was in the early part of the 19th century. and people say obama is going negative so early. both george w. bush and bill clinton in their second campaigns began earlier than obama did. they began in march and april. obama didn t begin until may. and so this kind of squeamishness, is it amnesia, is it i don t get it. i would understand why the beltway, which i think sort of leans conservative, that s my take on it, but the beltway
everybody on both sides of the aisle believes it s modern, believes we never used to do this. it s crazy. one campaign i talk about is the andrew jackson/john quincy adams campaign jackson was accused of cannibalism. his wife was described as a bigamist, his mother as a prostitute, and those were the nice things that were said and that was in the early part of the 19th century. and people say obama is going negative so early. both george w. bush and bill clinton in their second campaigns began earlier than obama did. they began in march and april. obama didn t begin until may. and so this kind of squeamishness, is it amnesia, is it i don t get it. i would understand why the beltway, which i think sort of leans conservative, that s my take on it, but the beltway