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<\/a>David Crisp<\/p><\/div>\n
Lincoln declined to respond to the attacks, hoping his character would speak for itself. \u201cIn politics, every man must skin his own skunk,\u201d he told his friend. \u201cThese fellows are welcome to the hide of this one. Its body has already given forth its unsavory odor.\u201d<\/p>\n
From the distance of 150 years, it\u2019s easy to see how ridiculous the World\u2019s story was in an election year that was wracked by Civil War, blood-soaked battlefields, draft riots and accusations from both parties that the president was insufficiently racist. But in the heat of a campaign, it isn\u2019t always easy to tell which spats might really matter. Here\u2019s a quick guide to the latest crop:<\/p>\n
\u2666 President Obama goes to a baseball game in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in Brussels: doesn\u2019t matter. The attack on Brussels happened on March 22. Three days before, terrorists set off a bomb in Turkey. Five days later, terrorists set off a bomb in Pakistan.<\/p>\n
Going to baseball games has been part of the president\u2019s job since William Howard Taft threw out the first pitch at a Washington Senators game in 1910. If we want a president instead of a Mourner in Chief, we can\u2019t have the man knocking off work every time a bomb goes off.<\/p>\n
\u2666 Donald Trump insults Ted Cruz\u2019s wife: Matters. First lady pulchritude is hardly a pressing national issue, but come on. If you were interviewing two people to run a hamburger joint and learned that one of them had tweeted what Trump did about the other\u2019s wife, you would never hire him. Never. How can we elect a president whom we can\u2019t trust to supervise hamburger flippers?<\/p>\n
\u2666 Accusations of racism over state Sen. Jennifer Fielder\u2019s speech last year to the Citizens Equal Rights Alliance: don\u2019t matter. You don\u2019t have to like CERA or Fielder\u2019s stance on state control of federal lands to defend her right to make whatever speeches she wishes without having to check the racial attitudes of the audience.<\/p>\n
Remember what Jesus said when he was criticized for eating and drinking with sinners: I didn\u2019t come to save the righteous; I came to save the sinners.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/div><\/div>While we are at it, let\u2019s dismiss in advance all of the claims we will hear of politicians demanding that other politicians return or reject campaign funds from unworthy donors. It wasn\u2019t Lincoln or Jesus, but another great American, Jesse Unruh, former speaker of the California State Assembly, who said, “If you can’t eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women, and vote against them, you don’t belong here.”<\/p>\n