Politics of personal destruction II

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When she was running for president in 2007, Hillary Rodham Clinton said at a fundraising event in Carson City, Nevada, “I sure don’t want Democrats, or the supporters of Democrats, to be engaging in the politics of personal destruction. I think we should stay focused on what we’re going to do for America.” Clinton’s husband, the former president, used that phrase at the time of his impeachment proceedings for lying under oath about a sexual dalliance in the White House.

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