When Trump went low, so did Hillary

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“When they go low, we go high.” That’s a motto Michelle Obama employed in her Democratic National Convention speech in July. She used it to explain what she and President Obama do whenever opponents get into the rhetorical gutter and attack them personally instead of basing their attacks on the substance of their policies.

Hillary Clinton is fond of quoting Michelle Obama’s motto. In fact, she has done so in both of the presidential debates, in the first while attacking Donald Trump for embracing and advancing the lie that Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

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