NOW it is time for the gloves to come off

excerpt from the Washington Post article:

Obama's chief strategist David Axelrod was unequivocal that the Obama team had had enough."What's good for the goose is good for the gander," he said. "There's no doubt we have held ourselves to a standard of engagement. I don't think the public is looking for the candidates to savage each other...but you can't play by two sets of rules, and we understand that."

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