hamhanded

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These claims are not completely accurate and are somewhat hamhanded, but, then, most political advertising shares those shortcomings.

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  • Franken lost the election, then with the help of Democratic officials, began a hamhanded attempt to steal the Senate seat that would be over-the-top even for Hugo Chavez. —  Right Wing News
  • All these conservative talking points during the campaign carried all sorts of nasty and exclusive demographic freight, as evidenced by the fact that they were generally delivered by politicians who avoided the more hamhanded "Barack the Magic Negro" types of rhetorical overkill. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • That, however, is hardly the hallmark of the Brown administration, which lurches between political safety and hamhanded Machiavellianism as often as the wind on our waterfront changes direction. —  Buffalo Pundit
  • These claims are not completely accurate and are somewhat hamhanded, but, then, most political advertising shares those shortcomings. —  Shark and Shepherd
  • But if not, it's singularly hamhanded, and exclusionary of the people who need services the most. —  Confessions of a Community College Dean
 

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