Are you sure your mum or dad didn't pass through Florida at that time? :p

Kat
(who is recovering from flu :( )

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From: "Deri James" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 1:17 PM
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Subject: Re: obama's problem

> On Tuesday 18 March 2008 17:10:26 Kendall D. Corbett wrote:
>> In political campaigns, anything that can be used to question a 
>> candidates
>> fitness for the job, or electability will be brought up.  In Florida
>> in 1950  a candidate (Smathers) campaigned against his opponent (Claude
>> Pepper) by saying his sister was a known thespian, and saying Pepper was 
>> a
>> septaugenarian (although Pepper was only 50).  We all know thespians are
>> actors and septaugenarians are in their 70's, but the tone Smathers used
>> was so nasty some people accepted the terms and thought the worst. 
>> Pepper
>> lost to Smathers in the 1950 election.
>>
>
> Well it was Florida you know. (Hi Beth!!)
>
> Cheers
>
> Deri
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