NO ONE advocated carpet-bombing anyone or making the sand anywhere glow. No one suggested that America kill the families of terrorists. Sure, there were barbs—about Hillary Clinton’s support of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and from Martin O’Malley over his relative youth alongside Mrs Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders. But outright name-calling came there none. At last night’s Democratic candidates’ debate in Manchester, New Hampshire, the level of violence, both rhetorical and threatened, was much lower than at the Republicans’ latest shoot-out.
Even the pre-match spat about a breach of the Clinton campaign’s voter data by aides to Mr Sanders—which had seemed set to inject some vitriol into the event—was peaceably resolved. Near the start of proceedings Mr Sanders pointed out that one of his campaign staffers had been fired over the incident, and apologised both to Mrs Clinton and to his own supporters for the tone-lowering. She in turn doubted that “the American people are all that interested in this.” Her opponents hurried to help bury a row even more recondite than the furore over her use of a private email...Continue reading
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