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Max Cleland: He went after John McCain when he got behind, when McCain won the New Hampshire primary. And came south to South…

On the recordAugust 24, 2004
He went after John McCain when he got behind, when McCain won the New Hampshire primary. And came south to South Carolina. The slime machine got cranked up. The smear campaign started. And McCain actually went on television and asked the president to stop it. He did not. And then when the president came after me in Georgia in 2002, Chuck Hagel asked him to stop putting me up there on the television with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and they did not.
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Max Cleland
Georgia

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Max Cleland criticizes President Bush for not condemning the swiftboat ads attacking John Kerry and recalls similar past attacks on John McCain and himself.

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