Campaigns Just Don’t Wordsmith Quite Like That Anymore
By Kleinheider Posted on May 22, 2008 at 10:50 amNewscoma reminds us of a political campaign in which on side called the other candidate a “hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”
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