McCain is target of 'dirty tricks campaign' By Alex Spillius in Columbia, South Carolina
Last Updated: 2:27am GMT 17/01/2008
John McCain, the Republican presidential hopeful, has been accused of betraying fellow prisoners of war in Vietnam in what his aides say is a dirty tricks campaign.
A leaflet circulating in South Carolina, where the next Republican primary contest takes place on Saturday, raised the spectre of the "Swift Boat" campaign that helped to defeat John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election by questioning his courage in Vietnam.
It also served as a reminder of the vicious campaign Mr McCain faced in the same southern state before George W Bush defeated him in the 2000 primary, when shadowy groups claimed he had fathered an illegitimate black child and slandered his daughter.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/17/wuspols117.xmlI hope that these clowns who are trying to smear John McCain get sued.