Maureen Dowd on Bill Clinton, circa 1998:
In order to escape the noose, the President is admitting and denying at the same time, and forcing his lawyers and aides to go out and behave like crazy contortionists.
Even Democrats are ashamed of the chuckle-headed "hairsplitting," as Tom Daschle calls it.
Maureen Dowd on Bill Clinton, circa 2006:
...when Bill Clinton would deceive, he would throw in a semantic clue that let you know he was deceiving. 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman.' We knew what he meant by that. You know, 'I did not,' about dope, 'I didn't break the laws of this country.' So it was sort of poignant and endearing.
If she could only find a way to fit that tortured logic on a bumper sticker.
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