Word: hominem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown's work descends to a new low in attack commercials, which means that they could damage his candidate, George Bush, even more than Clinton. Many voters, already sour about ad hominem assaults, will think that Bush's agents produced the ad. The G.O.P. campaign will doubtless engage in its own tough tactics, but it wants to calibrate its messages. Bush denounced Brown's work as "the kind of sleaze that diminishes the political process." The Bush- Quayle campaign tried to hit Brown's operation in the pocketbook last month by obtaining from the Federal Election Commission the names...
...opposition to homosexuality was motivated by hatred. They affirm and reaffirm that "We have no coercive capabilities; we wouldn't use them if we did." They make arguments--weak arguments, we think, but arguments nonetheless. To dismiss this issue as mere gay-bashing is simply unfair. The virulent ad hominem attacks proferred after the issue's publication, while understandable, were entirely unwarranted...
...answer this ad hominem attack on me by asking Cloud to explain how he could have misunderstood my positions and actions, when I clearly explained them to him twice, and when I have also publicly promulgated them to the Harvard community...
Sneider's opinion piece presents an interesting viewpoint when one looks past the ad hominem attacks and the distortions of the truth. However, Sneider missed the point. He never addresses the main questions of the rally...
...starters, Zaleskas uses obvious code words and phrases to make veiled ad hominem attacks on the president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Democrats, James M. Harmon '93. She writes that "famous Harvard-Radcliffe Democrats include the creator of non-ordered choice" and proceeds to castigate "one member" for calling gubernatorial candidate John R. Silber "a jerk." Both of these comments refer to Harmon, and Zaleskas knows...