"Passion and prejudice properly aroused and directed...do about as well as principle and reason in a party contest."- Thomas Elder, prominent Whig politician, 1840
In a bitterly-contested presidential election, a Democratic candidate praised for his intellectual demeanor and idealistic spirit is the target of vicious personal attacks that question his patriotism and his ethnic background.
It was 1800, and Thomas Jefferson was the subject of rumors and crude innuendo circulated in newspapers and handbills passed out in taverns claiming that he was the son of a half-breed Indian squaw squired by a Virginia mulatto father.
Obviously, things haven't changed that much.
Read on...
The democratic process in action. Check out the slideshow. Tom
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