Comments on: The Long Tradition of the Smear Campaign http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/08/25/archives/post-perspective/tradition-dirty-politics.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tradition-dirty-politics Home of The Saturday Evening Post Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Ima Ryma http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/08/25/archives/post-perspective/tradition-dirty-politics.html/comment-page-1#comment-329061 Ima Ryma Sun, 26 Aug 2012 08:26:39 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=69988#comment-329061 Grover Cleveland, the President,
Oscar Folsom from Buffalo,
As law partners and friends they spent
Shared pastimes in wild oats to sow.
Oscar Folsom Cleveland was born
Illegitimate. Grover did,
A bachelor, feel duty sworn
To provide support for the kid,
Though buddy Oscar just as well
As Grover could have been the dad.
But Oscar was married, do tell,
And a daughter Frances he had.

Once in the White House, Grover wed
That same Frances – ain’t that incred!

]]> By: Mary A. Berger http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/08/25/archives/post-perspective/tradition-dirty-politics.html/comment-page-1#comment-328356 Mary A. Berger Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:21:12 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=69988#comment-328356 I hadn’t heard the rumor about the supposedly bad boy reputation of Cleveland. Poor guy.
What always amazes me about political campaigning is after all the dirt has been dished and the elections are over, they’ll shake hands and make up. Makes one wonder, what’s the point?

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