I used to nod wisely when people said: "Let's discuss issues rather than personalities." It seemed so obvious that in politics an issue was an issue and a personality was a personality, and that the more one could separate the two, the more serious one was. After all, in a debate on serious issues, any mention of the opponent's personality would be ad hominem at best and at worst would stoop as low as ad feminam.
Eventually both Hitchens and I came to the same conclusion, namely that we really care more about character than about issues. Granted, we came to that conclusion somewhat differently! ;-)
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